Is this possible?

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Can you have one webpage that shows the libraries or two different servers on two different networks?

It would be an awesome feature if not! As I have multiple please servers on different network locations

But I just need it to be easy for someone to just log in and see all the media available regardless of where it is being streamed from

Thanks all!

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I suppose that’s already how Plex behaves today.
You can have many servers yourself or libraries shared with you. Those will all be listed in the sidebar under More. You can pin libraries from different servers to the (top-level) sidebar.

If one of the servers is only accessible locally, Plex will show a warning next to its sidebar entry if it’s temporarily not available (e.g. if you’re outside that network).

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Oh, you want to be able to combine libraries from two different servers into one massive library? I don’t think it’s possible. If you have two movie libraries from two servers, the best you can do is “pin” both sources to the sidebar, but you can only view the contents of one at a time.

Your “Home” sidebar menu can be customized to pick a few selections of each library to display in one screen, but the server owner gets to pick them for you.

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Thanks, both,

yea its more to be able to have a library folder for example ‘TV’ and for it to be able to show the TV folder from two remote servers as one folder

I have many non IT savvy people so the more simple I can make it for them the less hand-holding I wold need to do :smiley:

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By multiple servers, do you mean multiple Plex servers, or network storage servers? If the files are on separate locations, but you run just the one server, then it could be done. You set up Plex to point the TV Shows folder to multiple source locations at once, and Plex will combine them together. If the servers are distant (remote) from eachother though, I’d start worrying about the data stream from the network source to the plex server, then the plex server to the client.

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Here you can see that my TV Shows library is looking at two mapped locations for TV Shows. One is an old location (I really ought to clean that up), but if I had shows in there that differed from the original source, then they would both be under the “TV Shows” library I have pinned to the left.

If you have two Plex servers, then no. A client can display content from multiple Plex servers, but never the twain shall meet on the same screen.

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Ahh that’s a shame!!!

It would be good to just have that added level of usability

I wonder if there is any way to trick windows into mapping a remote pcs hard drive on a separate network so plex just things its a local one?

:space_invader:

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Ummm
 there is? Map network drive. If you can reach the computer (via IP address) you ought to be able to.

I would need more info on where the computers are (physically, like, same building or different city/state?), how do you have access to the computer (VPN connection?), etc.

If you own the Plex servers, why do you not control the location of the video content? Can you not combine them both into one location?

Hahaha, now look what you did, you got me curious. If you don’t want to describe any of this and want to keep things private, then I’ll back down. You just set off my puzzle-solving brain with an interesting-sounding problem,

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Haha no that’s fine to answer your questions:

  • I would need more info on where the computers are (physically, like, same building or different city/state?), how do you have access to the computer (VPN connection?), etc.

My setup:

Location 1:

Custom Plex server with around 20TB capacity (AMD APU)
Virgin media 350 down / 35 up

Location 2:

HPE Microserver Gen8 Plus - Intel 9900 (no igpu).
Virgin media 350 down / 35 up

  • If you own the Plex servers, why do you not control the location of the video content? Can you not combine them both into one location?

I struggle with bandwidth as my locations only have 35Mb up speeds !! (and that not dedicated, the people who live there have loads of internet devices sharing this bandwidth

So basically I have recently moved from my family home and got my own place, I have loads of 4k HDR content I want to watch full quality so I have had to double my PLEX devices to replicate the content between these locations

So really having a drive mapped using its remote IP won’t work as it will still not have the bandwidth to serve my content due to the 35Mb up

I suppose my question is:

Is there some good software that can sync the content between the two sites when I add it to one of the servers from my Synology NAS which downloads my new content

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If you can map the drives, a program like FreeFileSync might work. It can mirror from one drive location to another. Haven’t tried it with two physical locations, but I can’t see why it wouldn’t work if the PC was handling the mapping across locations.

I use it to backup my entire library.

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