Option to stop trying to connect to offline server

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I have two Plex servers. My primary Plex server is on my Linux system, which is always on. I also have a Plex server running in a Windows VM, the VM being hosted on the same Linux box. The VM is not always running. I generally just use it for testing. But Plex seems to be constantly re-trying the connection. Whether this affects performance at all, I don’t know. But that little spinner is distracting. I have unpinned that server, which hides the issue for now, but I would like to be able to tell Plex to stop trying after a number of tries.

Here’s what I’m thinking:

  1. I log into my active server while the VM with second server is off.
  2. Web (or other) app tries 3 times to connect with the VM server, then stops trying.
  3. Sometime later the VM is turned on.
  4. The user would have to select the VM server in the sidebar, and click the Retry Connection button.

The number of retries could be configurable, or turned off, so it retries indefinitely, like current behavior.

Another solution would be a “stop trying” button. This could be next to the server item in the sidebar, or, when you click on the library, next to the “Retry Connection” button that is presented.

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I would like a feature like this too.

Many smart devices have an option in Wi-Fi settings to not automatically connect to a network, but you can still manually connect. A setting like this would be helpful here so I can still have a profile for servers that are rarely (but sometimes) on, without a barrage of network activity every time I use the Plex client.

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It’s been almost 3 years since you made this feature request and now, I too am running into this issue.

I would love for a feature like this to be added. Clients shouldn’t continuously try to connect to servers that are purposefully offline.

We need a section in the server management UI to limit reconnects as we see fit. Like OP, I’m not sure what kind of performance hit these connect attempts are causing but it can’t be helping the situation.

Maybe a simple toggle for our servers, something like an ‘active/inactive’ toggle, that way we can specify on our accounts which servers are meant to be running/active and which ones aren’t.