I was just wondering what with DLNA now enabled and the awesome choice of Plex clients to access our Media server do we have an option to password protect movies to stop allowing my kids to watch.
Now that i have it running on all our apple and samsung TV devices i’m worried that my 2 and 5 year olds will have a field day and start watching movies not within their age group not to mention delete them.
I’m no Plex Wizard and have tried looking through previous forums but couldnt find anything relating to password protecting movies with a pin number.
If my media server has read only access to my media will this prevent anyone being able to successfully delete it from the client end?
Any chance a pin number for specific movies will be considered for a future release as a toggle switch for those that have no interest.
thanks for a great product.
I am in the same boat. Hopefully there is a solution.
I'm looking for the same thing. can't have my 3 year old browsing through and coming up to the adult movies we have on plex.
This or any parental controls still does not exist after years of development 
Starting to wonder if anyone involved with Plex development has children!?
My kids will be old enough to view all rating categories by the time anyone takes this seriously
Agreed. What to do?
Agree too. Some Passwort Protected Categorys or some that can only be viewed on a specified client would be cool
Parental control is already in the devs agenda.
Any progress on this e.g. is it genuinely in the dev line / due for release anytime soon?
This is something I would really like to see implemented. With a 3 & 5 yr old, making sure they don't watch 'Hobo with a Shotgun' is quite important to me ;-)
I could be wrong about this (its happened before, as my kids remind me) but I think it has less to do with with the Developers at Plex are or are not doing, and more to do with the limitations that UPnP has. I’ve read somewhere in the past that UPnP protocol does not support password protection. I hope I’m wrong because I too would like this capability.
Everyone is being very cagey about their reasons for wanting this feature. Let's get it out in the open. We want this feature to hide our porn from the kids/wife/girlfriend/roommates/dog.
i want this to keep my kids outta my wife and I's porn. There....I said it....
Now that’s the way to say it.lol
I have been eagerly waiting for this feature too.
Hope the devs implement this soon.
They could integrate the parental controls into the client by using the movie ratings. I currently use plex to stream my movies over the net, but use mymovies for my MCPC primarily due to the parental controls and the integration into media center.
The parental controls are set by rating and the movies to not even display by default if over PG13 on my MCPC. I can then goto the menu, select unlock, enter my pin and I have access to all movies.
If they could integrate this I would consider removing mymovies.
How are we going with this? Im hanging for this type of feature.... Im sure if this was released for plex pass holders this would increase the number of plex pass holders.
Keep up the good work guys
This feature has been requested in the PlexPass forums and is highly voted on topic. There have been NO commitments beyond that they have put it on the roadmap somewhere.
So this feature will be Coming Soon(tm)
I created a Kids Movie section and plex pass with only kids section included...While this only works with web-plex, lucky my 3 & 5 year old understand which section is theirs.....
I havent tried yet, as the kids usually get us to start movies, but if the kids plex client, ie IOS or Android have the plex pass sign on in the setting, will that not only show their section too?
This may not password protection as much as Device Designation. Mezzmo Media Server allows you to select where content is being delivered using IP Addresses/Device Names. Such as Rated R movies can only be played on the Living Room and the Master Bedroom. While less rated movies or kids movies (filtered by folders) are available on all devices in the home including the kids TV. Ideally the Porn will only go to the Master Bedroom TV ;) .
I currently use Mezzmo for more risky movies and the Service turns on after a designated time and Turns off in the morning using windows Task Scheduler. This adds a layer of security and privacy. It isn't ideal to have two media servers running on a machine but it works.
Hope this provides a temporary solution until Plex can catch up on parental controls.
curious - could this be solved by running two plex media servers on the same network, perhaps on different machines?
for instance, one on a mac mini with folders assigned to kids movies and tv shows, and one on an imac assigned to regular movies and tv shows?
then, each device (roku, ipad, whatever) could allow or reject one server or the other, eliminating adult content on child's device and vice versa.
any thoughts?
That's pretty much how I do it. I run plex on two linux servers. However, they each seem to want to automatically add the content of the other one they see. I've had to set up a firewall on the kids' server and block a large range of ports coming from that machine (because plex apparently doesn't narrow the higher port range it uses) to keep it from listing all the content on the other server.
It would be nice, however, to be able to run just one machine.
