Please if someone is reading this send me an invite on Plex Cloud
I have a feeling asking for invites is probably frowned upon.
However, I’d love an opportunity to even re-take the survey about plex cloud. As I have since uploaded a relatively small portion of my library to Amazon Cloud (~500gb or so) and would love to test it out.
Frowned upon or not Plex Cloud is, it seems, in a bit of a hiatus in that not much seems to be moving at all. I doubt that any more invites are going out for a while.
There are quite a few instabilities and other problems some related to the Plex Cloud app itself and others, apparently more serious, with Amazon itself and its “rate limiting” problems.
I can sometimes stream just fine from any of my devices while other times my Rokus will not work at all but my Shield TV and Fire TV work fine and other times nothing works. It is rare I can play two back to back movies or TV shows without problems.
The Plex Cloud server does not support “channels” and there are other rather severe problems and features missing. All in all Plex Cloud is WAY short of being ready for even expanded beta testing and, for quite a while, there has been little communication from the developer(s).
At this point, given that there has been so little movement, I am beginning to feel that the project may be at an impasse but the lack of input from the developers makes that no more than a guess. It could just as easily happen that the Plex Cloud will have a new version released soon and most of the problems will magically go away.
I really feel that at the current point Plex Cloud is little more that at the bare alpha testing stage. There is too much inconsistency and instability to call it a beta.
I almost regret signing up because most of the time the errors are such that it is clear it is not the app but Amazon that is failing.
I’d like to get into the beta as well. Already signed up awhile back, but nothing yet. If there’s indeed an invite system, I’d appreciate an invite.
That being said, @Elijah_Baley, how about simultaneous streams (when it works)?
@intel352 said:
I’d like to get into the beta as well. Already signed up awhile back, but nothing yet. If there’s indeed an invite system, I’d appreciate an invite.That being said, @Elijah_Baley, how about simultaneous streams (when it works)?
Reports are that it is OK but I would not know as I am the only one streaming my content and I only watch one stream at a time. Many years ago I would have music playing quietly in the background while watching TV but my old brain can no longer handle even that minimal multitasking.
I do know that there are some limits. I “think” it is limited to three streams at a time but I am not certain as it does not have any impact on me.
@Elijah_Baley said:
Frowned upon or not Plex Cloud is, it seems, in a bit of a hiatus in that not much seems to be moving at all. I doubt that any more invites are going out for a while.There are quite a few instabilities and other problems some related to the Plex Cloud app itself and others, apparently more serious, with Amazon itself and its “rate limiting” problems.
I can sometimes stream just fine from any of my devices while other times my Rokus will not work at all but my Shield TV and Fire TV work fine and other times nothing works. It is rare I can play two back to back movies or TV shows without problems.
The Plex Cloud server does not support “channels” and there are other rather severe problems and features missing. All in all Plex Cloud is WAY short of being ready for even expanded beta testing and, for quite a while, there has been little communication from the developer(s).
At this point, given that there has been so little movement, I am beginning to feel that the project may be at an impasse but the lack of input from the developers makes that no more than a guess. It could just as easily happen that the Plex Cloud will have a new version released soon and most of the problems will magically go away.
I really feel that at the current point Plex Cloud is little more that at the bare alpha testing stage. There is too much inconsistency and instability to call it a beta.
I almost regret signing up because most of the time the errors are such that it is clear it is not the app but Amazon that is failing.
Interesting points, I did sign up for an invite the second I got the email, but I expected there to be some teething problems.
Days before the plex cloud email, I honestly looked at buying an Azure VM with storage and a decent amount of bandwidth with a quad core CPU in the cloud.
Its not super expensive for me (Ill buy it though my company who give me massive discounts), and I suspect that will be a better solution.
With Azure Ill get a very high SLA time, free windows and a content delivery network that easily matches Amazon’s world wide.
I am not sure how Plex are doing the transcoding etc…
But maybe its a storage solution tagged into a massive shared VM with other users?? I dno as a technical architect I’m interested to see how its designed but we wont be given access to it.
For the moment the Azure solution probably is the best out of the box, because it can be installed by the user and has no limits.
If I actually go down the Azure route I will update on here how it goes.
I know from experience with Azure a port forward from their internal network to the public IP will be required but I think thats about it
