I need help and I’m not sure which forum is the correct place to ask, so, I’ll ask here and then copy and paste it to the right spot after someone lets me know where that is.
I have Plex on my desktop. I have Plex Pass. I am in university and live in the garage apartment behind my parents house. I bought them both a Roku when we all decided to quarantine. They have a large collection of media that I’m putting on my desktop so they can access through the Rokus and Plex. I have my own internet provider, separate from them. I want to set up a different user account for each of us so that if I wont lose my place if I’m 2 seasons in to a show and my mother starts watching it from the beginning.
Even though we technically live in the same house, I don’t think Plex will consider them “In the home” as we are on separate networks. Their WiFi doesn’t reach to the back of the property and mine doesn’t reach to the front. What type of user account do I need to set up for them and how do I do that? I see options for creating various types of user account, and, I’ve put Plex on both their Rokus using the Plex.tv/link method to connect it to my server. I just need to get it set up so that when I continue playing a show it doesn’t pick up from where my mom was watching it.
Thanks for any help, sorry this is in the general topics forum. I’ll move it as soon as I know where to move it to.
You each have different, or separate internet providers?
Who ever runs the server - the other one connects through ‘Remote Access’. The same as if they lived on the other side of the planet.
Whoever runs the server activates and makes remote access operational.
Everyone has their own Plex.tv account - everyone signs in with their Plex.tv credentials. The ‘Rents’ are made ‘Guests/Friends’ to the Server, or vice-versa.
Easy <—he says with no confidence what so ever…lol
I’m with Juice. If you haven’t already, create regular plex account(s) for them, then Share the desired libraries to their account. This keeps your play history separate from theirs, and allows you to share only the libraries you want with them. I do this for my fam and it works a treat.
Once shared, they get access to the libraries shared on your PMS via relay even if you don’t setup port forwarding to your server. I recently setup a PMS for my brother at his home. He’s using his neighbor’s internet (via direct-bury cat5), and when I set his PMS up the neighbors weren’t home, so I couldn’t set up port forwarding. I thought I would have to come back when they were home to finish the setup, but it’s worked flawlessly since day one without port forwarding.
Honestly, though, I’d seriously consider just burying a cable between the two structures and make it one flat network. One internet plan is always cheaper than two, and sharing across the WAN is always going to be slower than across just a LAN.
Under 100 feet (85% of it) and a standard network cable will do - use a good one - in a conduit run, ideally. This would put everyone Local/Nearby, but all would still benefit from separate accounts. Play history/Watch Status/Sub-Audio-Online Media settings - all unique, per account stuff <— necessary!
Let’s face it - 100 feet is ‘in the house’. Doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
I’m not sure if it wouldn’t be easier to just keep the internet accounts isolated and remote access in, but at any rate, “the server guys” are going to have to make remote access operational before anything like that can happen. After that, it should be easy.
