Hi!
Our family has uses one plex account, and access it via Apple TV. With a free Plex account, how can I restrict my children from viewing rated R movies on our plex? I realize that premium has a users feature, but I’m sticking with the free for now.
Thanks
You cannot. You are using one account, that account has access to everything.
Preposition:
The kids need their own Plex device, because:
signing out of the Kids’ account and in to the parents’ account is a hassle and you don’t want to do that on your TV in the living room, every evening (twice), after the kids have gone to bed.
Plex Home has Fast User Switching to ease the pain.
Method 1:
Drawback of this method:
You, as parent, will have to change libraries if you want to watch an R-rated movie.
If you still want all your movies in one list, you must use a workaround (see below)
Workaround (Method 2) for one continuous movie list for the parents:
Drawback of this ‘workaround’ method:
all Kid’s movies are present twice in the Plex database. If a ‘mismatch’ occurs or a poster or description needs correction, you must correct it in both libraries.
@OttoKerner said:
Preposition:
The kids need their own Plex device, because:
signing out of the Kids’ account and in to the parents’ account is a hassle and you don’t want to do that on your TV in the living room, every evening (twice), after the kids have gone to bed.
Plex Home has Fast User Switching to ease the pain.Method 1:
- Create a free plex account for the kids.
- shove the R rated movies into a separate folder.
- Make a separate library and point it to this folder.
- Share only the ‘old’ library with the Kids account, (from which all the R rated movies have been moved out).
Drawback of this method:
You, as parent, will have to change libraries if you want to watch an R-rated movie.
If you still want all your movies in one list, you must use a workaround (see below)Workaround (Method 2) for one continuous movie list for the parents:
- shove the family-friendly rated movies into a separate folder.
- Make a second ‘Kids’ library library for it.
- Share only the Kids library with the Kids account
- Edit the old library (the one for the parents) and add the folder with the family movies additionally to the folder with the R rated movies to it.
Drawback of this ‘workaround’ method:
all Kid’s movies are present twice in the Plex database. If a ‘mismatch’ occurs or a poster or description needs correction, you must correct it in both libraries.
Thanks OttoKerner! That is much more helpful than rsava’s feedback.
I appreciate you thinking outside of the box!
However you can set up separate free accounts for the kids and then only share the libraries you want the kids to be able to see. To make that work for what you want you might have to restructure your libraries a bit BUT libraries can overlap. This does not require “remote” access since the access is all local.
That is you can have the following:
Adult’s directory(s) <- contains movies that only the adults should be able to view.
Shared directory(s) <- contains movies that both groups should have access to
Kid’s directory(s) <- contains movies that are just for the kids
Then
Adult library <- contains the adult’s and shared directories.
Kid library <- contains the shared and kid’s directories
All library <- contains all of the directories
If it is desired the “Adult” library can be not included and the “All” library can server its purpose if the adults want access to all the kid’s movies as well as the adult’s and shared movies.
By using that method you can limit the access any way you wish by simply including or excluding movies from the desired directories.
@Jeremy Glover said:
Thanks OttoKerner! That is much more helpful than rsava’s feedback.
I appreciate you thinking outside of the box!
Sorry, you asked a question, I answered - correctly based on the info you gave.
Note that you stated you and your family all use ONE ACCOUNT. Based on that, mine is the most correct answer - no you cannot.
Just becasue you didn’t like my answer does not mean it was not helpful.
