Now that Plex Home is being implemented across various platforms, I'd like to get some more fine-grained control over what I share with users.
First, I'd like to have security/sharing groups. I have multiple children. Some may be allowed to watch PG-13 movies, others may not. I'd like my teenagers to be in a teenager group and my younger children in a young kids group. I don't want to have to set each user account up with the same permissions and then have to re-assign those permissions as they grow up. I just want to move them to the appropriate group.
Second, as has been mentioned elsewhere, using share labels is inefficient. They don't allow for prohibiting based on a label and there's no quick way to mass label content. Also, even if labels could be added en masse they would still require me coming up with labels and applying them appropriately to every movie in my library. So I would like to request integration with third party sources of parent's guide data that is more specific than movie ratings. For example, the MPAA provides ratings reasons that are more specific than main ratings. Common Sense Media is another source of this type of information. For my purposes, both of these are accurate enough for me to use as filters if I could and I would love it if Plex could download this metadata and make it available for Plex Home filtering.
Agree with this - parental controls are such an important feature - is the only reason I signed up for Plex Pass - annoyingly I don't have Plex Home on my FireTV yet, maybe I should cancel my PlexPass until its released... so just Plex Home for FireTV to start with :)
I'm running into this exact issue with my nephews...Some PG13 movies are perfectly fine, where others are damn near pornos. So i cannot just allow them to view all PG-13's THe sharing label is horrible to use as well. Been trying to wrap my brain around how the heck to allow children to use plex without having to spend days and months managing what they can and cannot watch.
I'm running into this exact issue with my nephews...Some PG13 movies are perfectly fine, where others are damn near pornos. So i cannot just allow them to view all PG-13's
Isn't that a fundamental thing with all rating systems from an external source? These rating systems have an implicit image of some imaginary 13-year old with an imaginary set of parents. And what I notice is that some scene's are way too graphic for my taste, despite nicely fitting their rating system (for example Police Academy 1 has a non-explicit but way too provocative end for my 9-year old, for my taste. Our rating says "no nudity" but the implied sexual act performed there is too explicit for my taste).
What I usually do is adjust the age setting more to my judgement (and my kids). No system can fix this, as I a parent I manually have to decide if the proposed rating agrees with my personal opinion. They are 90% right, but sometimes they are way off...
Yes but in that case your talking about something rated for a 13+ year old vs a 9 year old. At 13 this probably isn't a big deal. Maybe for a parent watching it with their teenager, but I doubt for the teenager themselves.
Yes but in that case your talking about something rated for a 13+ year old vs a 9 year old. At 13 this probably isn't a big deal. Maybe for a parent watching it with their teenager, but I doubt for the teenager themselves.
I think you missed my point. It is not about a specific movie being appropriate for a specific age. It is about the fundamental problem that the ratings Plex retrieves from a specific source can't be used directly to filter content for any specific kid in a specific parental setting.
Rating systems usually have "objective" criteria that are used to classify a movie. But those objective criteria don't have to agree with your personal views as a parent, or can "miss" things that any sane person would consider just as bad (that was the reason I mentioned Police Academy 1). At best these ratings reflect the common view of a country, but as a parent I might be more strict about violence and less strict about functional nudity giving rise to a different classification for a specific movie for MY kids.
Given this very fundamental flaw of rating systems, I see it as a typical aspect of addition of a movie to review its rating with my specific kids in mind. It does matter: my son (8 year old) is still terrified from the first Harry Potters (rated age 6 in our country), but can easily watch the older Bond movies (rated age 12 in our country). So when adding movies I usually look at the rating and modify when needed: our national rating agency doesn't know my kids well enough to take that decision away from me.
Sorry guys, I'm not meaning to cross-post here but I could not find a more suitable thread.
Do we have an estimate date for when Plex Home pay reach the following platforms:
(1) Android App
(2) Plex Home theater for Samsung?
I am SO excited to get Plex Home going but those are the two platforms we use to I am left drooling over these great new features that I still cannot use....
Sorry guys, I'm not meaning to cross-post here but I could not find a more suitable thread.
Do we have an estimate date for when Plex Home pay reach the following platforms:
(1) Android App
(2) Plex Home theater for Samsung?
I am SO excited to get Plex Home going but those are the two platforms we use to I am left drooling over these great new features that I still cannot use....
Brian
To add to Plexhilirated re the Samsung TV app (assuming thats what you are referring to?)
There was an issue with the release for 2014 onwards TV's and the release got pulled. It is now back in Samsung's hands and awaiting approval.
As Plexhilirated mentions 2013 and 2012 models already have Plex Home and it works amazingly well for me too.
If your TV is older than that then you are out of luck and your Plex version almost certainly will never be updated. So you will not see Plex Home.
I think you missed my point. It is not about a specific movie being appropriate for a specific age. It is about the fundamental problem that the ratings Plex retrieves from a specific source can't be used directly to filter content for any specific kid in a specific parental setting.
Rating systems usually have "objective" criteria that are used to classify a movie. But those objective criteria don't have to agree with your personal views as a parent, or can "miss" things that any sane person would consider just as bad (that was the reason I mentioned Police Academy 1). At best these ratings reflect the common view of a country, but as a parent I might be more strict about violence and less strict about functional nudity giving rise to a different classification for a specific movie for MY kids.
Given this very fundamental flaw of rating systems, I see it as a typical aspect of addition of a movie to review its rating with my specific kids in mind. It does matter: my son (8 year old) is still terrified from the first Harry Potters (rated age 6 in our country), but can easily watch the older Bond movies (rated age 12 in our country). So when adding movies I usually look at the rating and modify when needed: our national rating agency doesn't know my kids well enough to take that decision away from me.
Jaap
I totally get what you're saying and fully agree with you.
It is now on my shortlist too. That is a great find! Thank you!
You got my vote.
Jaap
It's one of the reasons I suggested it. They have ratings within categories of content such as sex, violence, etc. and they seem reasonably objective (understanding that things like nudity and violence are unavoidably socially subjective topics.) If integrated, this would allow me to block the kids from watching a show where the violence rating is three stars or more, for example.
You also may be able to tag this post with common search words - block explicit music, explicit content, exclude content, kids, parental control, exclude filter, sharing filter etc.
