So I just revisited this. Android TV (FireTV QLED) continues to work fine, web works fine, but IOS (iPhone & iPad) haven’t shown my libraries since the big app update months ago.
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Yes, I have pihole on my LAN. No, I’ve not touched it.
Now, Plex for me is a Docker server on my TrueNAS machine. All up to date. And I’ve finally got my iPhone to see the library. Tiny, tiny little fix. So small I barely gave it a thought! The Plex server - in Dockerized form at least - accepts an ADVERTISE_IP parameter. On the advice of others I updated this from a DNS entry to that of the server’s private IP address without success. However it turns out the it does more than just advertise the IP address, it appears to fill a hole in a URL elsewhere.
I had a value of:
http://192.168.1.40
Which wasn’t working. A few minutes ago I spotted another post speaking of this, and it turns out it requires the port number too. My new value is:
http://192.168.1.40:32400/
On first attempt on my iPhone, nothing changed. So I force-quit the app, and reloaded. My library came back!
