I wanted my Plex collection to be accessible to a family members in another household, he does not have his own Plex accounts (and doesn’t want an Plex account or PMS). For now I logged in on their smart TV’s Plex client at their house as me, but of course I get movie/series progress confusion now. I’ll upgrade to premium but as I read about Plex Home, and I’m not sure how I’d set them up? What Kind of User? How could they be authorized to access my Plex libraries (type of user, etc).
Plex Home is a Plex Pass-feature. So anything I am describing below is only available with a Plex Pass.
A managed user uses still your Plex username and password to authenticate the Plex app. Only later he’ll be able to switch to his/her separate “area” where his ‘watched/unwatched’ is stored and the access restrictions to certain libraries etc come into effect.
What’s preventing a ‘managed’ user to going back to your ‘admin’ access level is just the 4-digit PIN number you set on your account.
Foe a person in a different household, I still recommend you to create a separate full user account on plex.tv. (it is free to create, you just need a separate email address)
You can later decide to add this separate plex.tv account into your Plex home.
While this will enable the free access to paid Plex apps (iOS, Android) it also activates
‘Fast User Switching’ which then presents again the potential security issue with the 4-digit PIN.
This is something you have to decide - if the person is trustworthy enough to not try 10000 times to find out your 4-digit PIN.
Without Plex Pass, your sharees need always a full plex.tv account (if you don’t want to share your plex account with them, which I don’t recommend)
and you can only decide per-library whether you share with the person or not. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sections/200295083-Server-Sharing
@OttoKerner said: Without Plex Pass, your sharees need always a full plex.tv account (if you don’t want to share your plex account with them, which I don’t recommend)
and you can only decide per-library whether you share with the person or not. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sections/200295083-Server-Sharing
I use this option almost exclusively. It keeps the universe separate, and I can control what content is available to the end user.
I only use Home with my girlfriend because we’re together a lot. When opening Plex, and you have users added to the Home, you get a selection screen similar to Netflix asking essentially “Who’s watching?” Anyone added to Home could errantly pick your profile unless you assign it a PIN number.
Have them sign up for their own accounts. It’s the best and most tidy way to avoid crossing the streams.
Have them go to Plex.tv and set up an account. It’s pretty simple. Not much more than an email address and password.
Once they’ve told you they’re good, go to Settings > Users > Friends > Invite Friends and input the email address they used to sign up. They’ll get the invite in the mail and will have to confirm. It’s pretty painless.
@AmazingRando24 said:
Have them go to Plex.tv and set up an account. It’s pretty simple. Not much more than an email address and password.
Once they’ve told you they’re good, go to Settings > Users > Friends > Invite Friends and input the email address they used to sign up. They’ll get the invite in the mail and will have to confirm. It’s pretty painless.
Thanks! First I’ll have them log out as me on their client.
I did that somewhat differently. I have a friend with a current plex account that I gave him the invite and he’s still free and the apps need plex pass to work.
My situation is, I created managed users and one of them is my nephew that mostly streams from the phone. How can I set him up with a plex account but still be a managed user. Honestly I want to keep the played history.
