I have a DS1019+ running plex for my house, and I’ve just gotten a DS218+ for my mom’s apartment for her media (for offsite backup and to avoid accessing remotely for her). A few details:
Main plex clients for my mom are iOS devices and AppleTV
Clients will not switch servers/locations
Files are already prepared for playing without transcoding
New files would be mostly loaded on 218 via USB copy (occasionally remote copying)
Plex servers are not set up for remote access
My question is what are the pros and cons of using my plex account (premium) as admin on both devices or setting up a new account for the 218?
My criteria/concerns:
I don’t want the accounts on my mom’s clients to have the ability to change the server settings, though she wouldn’t know the passwd (I always use my account so not sure what a non-server owning account can do through clients)
I read this thread about multiple servers on same account without remote access, but seemed specific to Roku client
Yea - the benefit of a Plex Server running on a NAS at your Moms that she can’t administrate/fix when it’s blowed up - unless she has a particular set of skills - escapes me at the moment.
After raising YOU - piling on another headache - this one she can’t do anything about - seems… unnecessary.
With Plex Pass you may be able to manage her remote access to your server more efficiently and that may help you both. She watches TV. You fly around with a pipe wrench and duct tape keeping it all running for her.
just thinking out loud.
I wouldn’t put a Plex Server on a NAS, and I sure wouldn’t have put a Plex Server on a NAS at my Mom’s house. I loved her too much to do that to her.
I do have an ‘Aunt Gladys’ (circa: 1921). She hits ‘Play’ and I run around with duct tape a pipe wrench keeping it all running for her. Aunt Gladys doesn’t need stress at her age - come to think of I don’t need any at mine.
She’s non-technical, so she wouldn’t be fixing it anyway other than turning it off/on if I asked her to.
And her memory is not great, sometimes making a phone call from her iPhone stumps her. But with only one device (AppleTV) to watch current TV, Netflix, old movies, and old tv shows makes it easier for her to use.
Other reasons I’m putting plex in for her is it’s a much better interface that an external hard drive attached to her TV. Tracks which episode is next, etc. And easier to watch her shows/movies without having to insert disks etc.
I’ll have remote access to the NAS/Plex for fixing etc, but not remote access to Plex from a client.
