I understand managed users can’t add their own friends, but when my managed users with no account use the watch together feature, they get a list of users that does not match my main account’s friends list.
They can even see old accounts with people that are no longer on my friends list.
Left side is my main account, shows my managed users as friends (1,2,3) and shows all my current friends (6,7,etc). Have about 10 other users on my list.
Right side is one of my managed users. Also shows the rest of the managed users (1,2,3), my main account, (bottom). The one marked 4 is a user I unfriended on my main account years ago. User 5 is one of my current friends, but a very old friend. There are no other users showing up to managed users.
At least, would rather the deleted user (4) not be on there at all.
At most, expecting the friends list would just be that of my main account.
That definitely doesn’t look right. Your managed user should only see users in your Plex Home. Can you PM me the email address of the person that shouldn’t be there?
I have a very similar problem to @Tarv. I even tried deleting my managed users and inviting them as friends, with fully separate accounts in my home. Same problem… They see only a small list of obsolete friend accounts. If I log in as me, I’m able to watch with others, but my kids are unable to do the same. If you confirm this is a bug can you please update this thread saying so? Thanks much.
I was able to reproduce similar behavior of having Remote Friends (active Friends and removed Friends) show up in the Watch Together invite menu while using a Managed User.
This can happen if the Server Admin invited a Remote Friend into their Plex Home then remove the Friend from the Plex Home. The Friend (active Friend) and Managed Users will still be available to one another in the Watch Together Invitation menu. They are able to be invited, start, and join Watch Together sessions with each other, if the session is from the Managed User’s Server. Removing the Friend from the server completely then readding them later results in the same behavior.
Removing the Friend from the server completely will still cause the Friend (removed Friend) to be seen by Managed Users but not by the Admin. The Managed Users can still invite the removed Friend to Watch Together. The removed Friend will get an invite with a message on the Watch Together card of “No Access”. Other Managed Users can join this Watch Together session. The removed Friend can also invite the Managed Users to their server, this will result in the same “No Access” message in any situation. Managed Users cannot join a Watch Together session from a Friend, if the session is not from the Managed User’s Server.
To reproduce:
Invite Remote Friend to Home
Friend accepts
Check that Friend is now available in Watch Together invitation menu
Kick recently added Friend
Remote Friend and all Managed Users can invite each other to Watch Together
Another interesting observation is that Plex users without their own servers can invite and befriend other non server owner Plex users. These Plex Users, 1 and 2, can Watch Together on a shared Server. If Plex User 1 was added then removed from a Home, they can invite Plex User 2 and any Managed User from the Home to Watch Together. Plex User 2 and the Managed User will be able to see each other while in the session’s launch page.
I can see this behavior as a nice feature but in need of additional restrictions and options, an unintended consequence of the Plex Home, or a bug that should be fixed/removed.
The idea of sharing between Managed Users and outside Friends sounds pretty good. I use a Managed User for myself and would like to Watch Together with Friends without having
to use the Admin account. I don’t like the idea of the other Managed Users being exposed to Friends. I have not explored options to resolve this.
Follow up questions:
Should Friends that are removed from a Plex Home still be seen like this?
The warning about adding Friends to your Home is already established but should this behavior be added to the article?
Could there an option for Managed Users to allow/not allow sharing between Friends?
If this is unintended behavior, how can we resolve it as Server Owners? Is the resolution Plex intervention?
@Tarv and @neek were the Friends that were still showing up in the Watch Together invitation menu ever in your Plex Home?
In my case, no, one of the users was definitely never part of my home group. And one of the friends who my kids can’t see did used to be part of our home group.
