I have a Seagate Wireless Plus hard drive. The hardware is great, all it is missing is Plex :) On a long car or plane ride, or in a hotel with poor wifi, this 1 TB drive has tons of room for movies for the whole family. It creates its own wifi hotspot that multiple devices can connect to and stream from, essentially making it an "Offline Cloud."
But there are a few problems:
* You have to manually run handbrake on your media and copy it over to the drive
* The web interface is basically just a file listing, not nearly as useful or intuitive as Plex
So the request is to add Plex to this device. I'm envisioning that it would work like the Cloud Sync service, where you connect to your main server and choose which movies to sync and Plex automatically transcodes and copies the files. Then when you are on the road you connect to the drive's hotspot and watch movies using your normal Plex clients. Ideally, when the drive is back on the network it would update the "watched" status for each user.
The tricky part is authenticating users without access to plex.tv. Perhaps this means clients have to connect once when the internet is available and let it cache credentials somehow, or perhaps there is no authentication and it just plays content anonymously to anyone that is connected to the drive's hotspot (the hotspot is password protected, so that isn't as scary as it sounds).
I don't think this solution needs the ability to add content or manipulate the library directly. It would be simplest to treat it like the cloud drive, where all management happens through your main Plex server.
I think this would be an excellent addition to the Plex family of products, giving you access to your library even when offline.
