Offline Viewing - Using Plex on LAN with no internet access.

Hi all,

I see a number of posts on this but no real resolution. Thanks to hurricane season I am without internet and not expected to have it back until next week earliest. This will be more than two weeks. We are cord cutters so this is problematic.

But, no worries, I tell my wife, we’ve been using Plex for years and have a large library of media to revisit. Should provide ample distraction until the internet is working again and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon are all back …

Well. Imagine my surprise. Plex insists on internet access to stream media from a computer on my local network to another device also on my local network.

Thanks, Plex. This is horrible and going to make it that much harder to introduce new and cool technology to the household in the future.

Is this crippled functionality supposed to be a feature?

Awful.

see https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1270859/#Comment_1270859 for a workaround

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