Been working on this for 3 weeks or so with ZERO success with Plex support, so trying here to see if anyone else has had this issue.
My localhost was saying it was disconnected so after some troubleshooting I thought I’d try removing it, which it said before I did so that once I signed back in it would be automatically added back. That didn’t happen. Where I used to have the ability to click the drop down on my remote server and select localhost, localhost is completely gone, like not even there. Remote works fine. I have done everything I can think of. Completely uninstalled, removed registry entries and every folder and file related to plex, then reinstalled, went through the beginning stages of the server setup, it asks me to log in, when I do, STILL no local host, just the new remote server I just named and the old one remote server not connected but still in my list of servers, so I remove the old one, but localhost is nowhere to be found…any help would be greatly appreciated. Except help from Plex support that just tells me to try everything I already found on the internet. Pic attached, local host used to be in there below DCMPlex, it’s not visible in settings either…plex2019-11-16%20093710|575x775
The server is only installed on my HTPC which is where all my media resides.
No I do not use anyone else’s server. I’m the only one I know with Plex Pass. I haven’t seen an invite from anyone. Doesn’t meant someone didn’t try by accident or something.
**I did have it installed on another computer that died like a year ago. Local host was visible on this PC about 3 weeks ago, was just spinning(lost connection), so I decided to delete it manually, haven’t been able to get it back since.
I don’t know if you really don’t understand what I meant or you are just offended, that I specifically asked for help from the community and not Plex support. That is because I have spent over a month total with Plex support. The last one on here just kept stringing me along telling me to try options that were literally like the first or second link on google. I even tried to have him skip past all of that by giving him a list of things I have already done…2 days later tells me to try two things I ALREADY TOLD HIM I tried…So it just ended up turning into a huge frustrating waste of time that got me nowhere. Got so bad I actually thought I was just getting automated responses from some ticketing system. So I just prefer not to go through that again.
Previous thread on this issue by this user can be found here:
As evidenced by the thread above you were receiving the only kind of Plex support available: through these forums. That was a real person helping you, not a bot or script.
Ok, great. So, you are seeing exactly what you should see. Based on your earlier reply, you have/manage exactly one Plex Media Server. It is named DCM-Plex. That “Nearby” indication means that it is a local server, not remote. This is the only server you should see.
That older entry (LOCALHOST) you deleted may have been a reference to that other server you had a year ago. But the bottom line is, in your current situation, you will only see one server available to configure. If you want another server named LOCALHOST, you will need to install Plex Media Server on a separate system and name it as such.
LOL…see this is what I’m talking about…Yes…Yes it is…It is my remote server that is working completely fine…That’s not what my issue is…LOCALHOST…is gone…missing…not visible…evaporated…MIA…
??Ok…So before when I used to connect to localhost to stream to other devices in my house is not a thing anymore? If I try to stream to a device in my house from the plex server that is also in my house on the same network it’s not going to try stream “remotely” and use my internet bandwidth? It is going to autodetect that I am streaming in home and just use my internal network?
When streaming in home I’m trying to avoid transcoding and all that since I dont need to internally.
So I guess thats where the confusion is coming from. I’m still thinking the visible “localhost” option as a selection was still the way it was done to stream locally without losing original quality and using internet speed as a bottleneck instead of my internal Gb connections
Your local clients running Plex apps will detect and connect to the only server they see: DCM-Plex. It is listed as “Nearby,” which means local. So, no Internet traversal is necessary to stream from that server to any devices, while on your local network. If you leave your local network (travel, work, whatever), you will then be remote.
Transcoding is/can be a separate issue. While location/bandwidth restrictions can play a part, just as important are client capabilities. Some are able to direct play content without transcoding because they have native support for the media formats (codes, containers) in your library. Others may not, because they don’t.
If your issue is that media is being transcoded when you believe it shouldn’t be, I’d recommend opening a separate thread to discuss that. As for the topic of this thread, I hope you agree that you are seeing the one and only Plex Media Server you should be at this point.
No I think I’m good now. I can check to see if it’s transcoding when test it. Wish the guy weeks ago could have just told me what you did(that I was confusing one thing for another), that if I see “nearby” on the server it means it’s local. DCM-Plex used to say “nearby” even back when I also had the “localhost” as a visible server name, so I didn’t think anything of it. Thanks for the clarification. I didn’t know that because I normally just use MPC-HC with MadVR for all my 4k HDR content, but wanted to try some of it locally through Plex now since I heard it supports HDR now…
Thanks again for your help.
EDIT: and no I didn’t just want something named localhost because I liked the name or anything…lol, that was just the default name when I used to see it in the list of servers so I was using the name as a reference because I thought everyone had seen that name at some point.
For what it’s worth, I think some of the confusion may have been that “localhost” has a very specific meaning in networking. It is the host name of the local host IP address, 127.0.0.1, which is used for intra-device networking (one app on a host wants to “talk” over the network to another app on that same host).
No I know, I guess it was just the old way or just my setup, but every time I would install Plex MS I would always have 2 servers listed in my UI, DCM-Plex and one literally just default named “localhost”. I was just using that name to reference because I assumed everyone saw/had that on their initial install. Guess not…lol
I didn’t, since the only support option from Plex are the forums, that you are trying once more, so sounded to me like you tried elsewhere, and as such, simply puzzled
Yeah, never used support until this issue. After my frustration on the other post I had, I just noticed a link that said something to the effect of, “still having issues? Try the forum”. So I did, just thinking it was community only(users), until right after I posted it I noticed it just took me to a different page of the same place…either way, I guess I’m good now.
