Server Version#: 1.25.0.5282
Player Version#: latest
I update to the latest version of plex server and I lost my connection from my samsung tv.
I couldn’t find the server. I downgrade to the previus version and now I cannot see on the TV the link code that I must enter to the plex.tv/link
Any help please.
Thanks for the info
I solved the problem entering in the “List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth” the ip of my samsung tv and I can see the plex.
I don’t like this solutions because I have a fear that this ip will be changing in the future, but I don’t beleive that I must buy a new tv (~600 euro) to solve this problem.
I am very sorry that they are changing the plex and they are not be sceptical about old users
Anyway thanks again (and sorry for my english as I am from Greece)
I’m not sure you understood the post… this isn’t necessarily Plex’ doing but your TV no longer being supported by its manufacturer (e.g. no more updates of the underlying certificate authority / replacement of outdated certificates).
No I understood your post, but plex was working for 4 years on the same tv with no problem. I don’t know what happened with the updates (of server and client on samsung) and suddently I faced this problem.
This is about certificates and how devices communicate securely.
Certificates have an expiration date… the same goes for the root certificates / certificate authorities installed on a device to decide which certificates to trust or not.
Your TV doesn’t have a valid root certificate / certificate authority to confirm the certificate of the Plex Media Server (aside from new certificates requiring a more secure technology that’s not supported by the old TVs).
As a reference/comparison:
Your company is handing out ID cards to enter a building. Over time those will be replaced to stay up-to-date w/ current security requirements. If they chose to not update the card readers in an old building (for whatever reason), you might end up not being able to enter that building.
TL;DR: security requirements demand the update but it’s going to cause trouble if you can no longer keep up
Not really, sorry…
Plex has to update security just like every other vendor that are exposed on the internet, or risk getting hacked
So they did, and thanks god for that, but it sadly left +6 year old computers (Read your Samsung TV) in the dark
Also as @tom80H mentioned, the certificates used to encrypt traffic, has as all certificates an expiration date.
To get new fresh root certificates on your TV, can only be done by Samsung, and they stopped providing updates for your TV
I do not want to argue with you and thank you very much for the comments, which I largely agree with.
I have only 2 objections
a) they could or should warn us
b) what happens to some like me, who do not need access through plex to the internet ? I use it for what I have no other good way to see my movies and series (specialy subtitles as I am greek) from a network drive connected to my local network
Thanks again
Plex do not control Samsung firmware, nor know of expiration dates of the certs Samsung had installed, and also didn’t know that Samsung did not want to update them!
If anybody should warn people, it’s Samsung, since it’s their OS, and certs is an OS thing, not an app thing
You use the proxy that I suggested in the post, and after the Samsung App has been updated, you can continue in offline mode un-authenticated
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