We’re using managed account for all family members, but they only see the other managed accounts (and main account) but not our “friends” that have access.
Is there a setting I missed or is it still on your todo list and we have to be a bit more patience? 
Tested on an iOS device.
No, managed users cannot have friends outside of Plex Home. You’ll need to make a full Plex account then your friend can share to them directly.
Any full user can start a session, and invite anyone they’re friends with, however everyone will need access to the media
First, THANK YOU for Watch Together. The way it’s implemented seems REALLY well thought out and is very accessible. It’s clearly had a ton of thought put into it to be this good in a preview release.
I’d like to second that this Managed Users use-case will probably be pretty common. I’m not clear on what would be involved to do this but if the full Plex account in a Plex Home setup could share some or all friends of their account to select Managed Users within their Plex Home, I think this would make Watch Together even better for most households using Managed Users. I imagine that allowing Managed Users to have full friend management capabilities is a lot more complicated but if I as the admin (and only full Plex user) could delegate friend access for Watch Together purposes to Managed Users, it would allow Managed Users to use Watch Together while maintaining library access at the full user level. Only being able to watch with those in your household is much less likely to be what Watch Together is primarily used for.
With integrations like Trakt scrobbling via Webhooks and watch statuses being updated even if I wasn’t the one in the Watch Together session, I’d prefer to avoid forcing my family to use my account to watch things with those outside our household. I understand that full friend access for Home Users adds a wrinkle of library share management (although I think letting the full Plex user enable friend management for Managed Users like they do for being able to have sync capabilities could solve this) along with the fact that Managed Users don’t have addressable Plex accounts. Maybe letting the full Plex user in a Plex Home scenario own the friend accessibility for Managed Users could be a good stop gap so Managed Users could utilize Watch Together. I really appreciate the work that’s gone into this feature and look forward to future iterations!
After 4 hours of trying to figure out why me and my friend can’t use watch together, I discovered what dabigc is also experiencing. I can’t add my friend to show up as a friend because he needs to be able to set a pin (adult content and needs a pin due to kids). So if you can only have a pin being a managed user, we can’t use watch together.
Hopefully, one of two things can be fixed here. Either it allows watch together between home/managed users or you allow friends to setup a pin on their account.
thanks!
I may be missing some context here, but a full user can set a PIN too - it doesn’t require a managed user.
Hopefully, one of two things can be fixed here. Either it allows watch together between home/managed users or you allow friends to setup a pin on their account.
I’d like to hop on this bandwagon. I have the primary account as it’s my server. My wife has a managed user for keeping track of what she watches vs what I watch. I’ve shared my library with a couple of her friends, she’s like to do a watch party with the, but can’t see them as described in this thread.
Managed users cannot have friends. To invite users outside of the Plex Home, your wife must have a full account, and be friends with all the people she wishes to Watch Together with
I get that, I was just kinda hoping something could be added down the road. Or that you could elevate a managed user to be able to be a sudo admin and see all the stuff the primary does.
So, if the wife creates her own full account, say wife@myserver.com, and I invite her, she then can be friends with somebody else like sally@isp.com and then have a watch-together from my content with no issues?
Yes, that’s correct. However, sally@isp.com would also need to be friends with you, and you’d need to share your content with them, so they have access too.
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