Plex Arcade - NAS - Complications and possible solutions

We have seen the first step, and I am “not” upset that NAS is not supported “yet.”

Yet, we need to have a discussion about NAS in detail. Installing the CORE software to emulate the console games is difficult, depending on the NAS-Linux interface. It might not be supported. So far, from what I am reading, it streams with the utilization of the GPU. All NAS systems do not have that technology. So there is a lot of things that need to be worked on. Hardware, software compatibility is hard to work through in this concept. A solution is possible but will require time.

Now, I want to suggest this as a “temporary solution:”
Allow those who have the plex subscription, Archade subscription, and Parsec account to run their server on two different platforms simultaneously and rout both to the same software and library.

Details:
Add detailed port options in plex based on services to allow the Achade feature port(s) to differ from the media streaming. This will let the “port forwarding” to be more comfortable as it will come from two different IPs on a network.

Then I can run my Plex on my NAS for my media and plex on my windows computer for my arcade games, and they all show up together on my plex service when I log in as if it was one system.

Thoughts?

I have set it up exactly in that way and it works fine except for some difficulties to open up the ports for the “arcade” server.
I have a plex pass subscription, so I don’t know if that is needed too to run 2 servers in parallel

You can have as many different servers as you like in your account.
Just set up a second server on a Windows machine and claim it to your plex.tv account.

Yep, that’s what I’ve done, my “real” Plex server is running on my Synology NAS and a Windows host on my lab network specifically for testing Plex-Arcade

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