Per server quality settings in Android clients

This is an extension of a previous post in the forums:

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1106883

I’m hoping that Android clients will have the same consideration given when to comes to being able to specify quality settings based on not only Mobile/Wifi, but Local Network vs. Remote.

It seems rather ridiculous, with the growing number of Android based devices that are NOT Mobile capable that the only network checking it does is Mobile vs. Wifi. There needs to be a way to specify the quality of videos based on if the server is in your local network or on a remote network. If not this app will require too much work to be kid/wife friendly on devices like Shield/Ouya/Forge/Kindle etc.

@eldon.mcguinness said:
Perhaps I’m not understanding this then. I have a couple of Android boxes that I run the Android Plex client on. In the client, no matter what server I choose, be it my (in-house) server or one that is in another relatives house, I get the same settings as the session I was just in. Perhaps a diagram would help.

Start plex on android box
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Start video from server that is located in my home
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Set the quality to Original
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Stop video
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Start video from server that is located outside my home
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Quality is set to Original Still
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Set Quality to 2Mbps 720P
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Stop video
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Start video from server that is located in my home
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Check Quality setting and it is still 2Mbps 720P
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Change it to Original
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Restart video from server that is located outside my home
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Check Quality setting and it is still Original

As you can see the setting does not seem to stay or change based on if the server is, or at least what one would think is, local or remote. Any ideas? What I’m trying to achieve is the ability to set the client as follows so other users in the home do not have to fiddle with the quality settings.

Server A (in house) : Quality Original
Server B (out of house) : Quality 2Mbps
Server C (out of house) : Quality 2Mbps
Server D (out of house) : Quality 2Mbps

This really would be moot if Plex did quality ramping of some nature, but that is neither here nor there.

@BigWheel said:
sorry for late reply. Android mobile is the one that does not have local vs remote quality settings. It only has wifi vs cellular. :frowning: not sure if that will change in the future

Early 2021 clean-up: implemented