# Please add maintenance mode option and admin messaging

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-maintenance-mode-option-and-admin-messaging/339542>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-maintenance-mode-option-and-admin-messaging/339542 "2018-11-30T20:31:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![hgbugalou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hgbugalou/32/108226_2.png) [@hgbugalou](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hgbugalou)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-maintenance-mode-option-and-admin-messaging/339542/1 "2018-11-30T20:31:24Z")

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For those of us who share our Plex servers with friends and family, it would be super useful to have a maintenance mode we can put the server into when we are doing backend work that could effect Plex and the video/audio server needs to reject requests. Ideally you could set a short message to be displayed when someone tried to use the server file it is down.

Another related feature that would be nice to have a is a push message that goes out to any clients connected to your server. That way you can warn them if a reboot is about to occur, etc.

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**Author:** ![TeknoJunky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/teknojunky/32/165055_2.png) [@TeknoJunky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TeknoJunky)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-maintenance-mode-option-and-admin-messaging/339542/2 "2018-11-30T20:48:02Z")

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I like it.

But I’m out of votes. Good luck.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-maintenance-mode-option-and-admin-messaging/339542/3 "2018-11-30T20:52:20Z")

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A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.

> [@Send server messages](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-server-messages/23773/1):
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> It would be great as a PlexPass user to unlock a feature to send messages to the viewers. Information on planned maintenance (running every 20min or so) Restart information (one time message) and so on. This would be nice to have when you have a shared server. Vote on the poll, and maybe give a comment in suggestions to make this feature request better. Best regards Sleepwalker

Therefore this one is closed.  
Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-add-maintenance-mode-option-and-admin-messaging/339542/4 "2018-11-30T20:52:25Z")

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