Plex keeps falling offline often. I’m so tired of troubleshooting why but I can’t narrow it down. I thought it was the P2000 with video transcoding enabled but even with it off it still does it. I purchased “always up” and run PMS as a service and that doesn’t fix it either. Might have been more common once I did my re-install of Plex with Windows 10 but not sure.
I think I want to re-install Plex. Is there a way to un-install and re-install Plex to create a fresh installation, using the same server name, so that I DON’T have to instruct 25 friends and family on how to re-accept the invite? The invite process is such a pain in the ass how it works right now. It’s not just “click an activation link” and it works, ever. You have to jump through hoops - click the activation several times, log in and out of Plex.tv, find notifications, tell them to click green check boxes, then stop using the browser and go back to app — it is not at all seamless.
Overall looking for the easiest way for my friends and family to remain connected after I reload Plex, assuming I’m not formatting the computer…
Would that restore method also work if i do that after a format and OS reinstall? Obv it will still have to regrab the metadata, i just dont want my users to have to do anything
Windows version doesn’t matter much. But I don’t think it is a wise decision to go back. Windows 8 will be ‘unsupported’ by Microsoft pretty soon and Windows 10 has been working much better overall than 8 for me.
Maybe I’ll try a different version Windows 10 but mainly just for the clean install. I’m using build 17134 currently. I just cant find out why Plex drops out so much lately. i7 4770 CPU, 32 gigs memory, fiber internet each way.
Figured maybe a clean install was the way to go but I did just do that not too long ago - changing from Win8 to Win10. I gave up on hardware transcoding as that seemed to cause lots of issues (perfectly defined by this issue request : [BUG] Hardware transcoding causes PMS to become unresponsive ) so now I have a useless $450 Quadro P2000. But users keep reporting “plex offline?” and stuff there watching stops and they have to restart it - and it seems to happen nightly.
