Hey everyone, hopefully someone can help me with hopefully a very simple question.
i would like to know if i buy a plex pass being monthly or lifetime pass and host my own server will all my users also get the same perks to the pass as i do. and how many user accounts can i add to my server ?
i am currently with emby and with the new ui layout from plex i am thinking of changing but cant find this answer anywhere
thanks
That’ll depend – there’s a number of server based features but many require an active Plex Pass membership.
Plex Pass perks are usually inherited to managed users inside a Plex Home – keep in mind that’s a feature for close family or members of your household, not for general sharing. IIRC you can have 15 members inside a Plex Home (incl. 1 admin). Sharing overall is limited to something about 100 users (incl. potential members of your Plex Home).
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201751006-plex-pass-feature-overview/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/203960236-consequences-of-being-in-a-plex-home/
hey,
thanks for the fast reply and i live on my own but have a large family so i would want the pass available for remote sharing as this is what emby already does
You don’t need a Plex Pass to share your libraries with users outside your home network.
i know you can still share without a plex pass but will they be prompted to buy a plex pass or have ads show up even if i own a pass as the server host
If they have their own Plex account tied to their own e-mail, they will receive occasional e-mails announcing new features, etc. These are infrequent. Maybe one every two or three months.
Plex occasionally offers discounts on a Plex Pass. They may receive such an e-mail. Maybe once or twice per year (my experience).
Ads appear in Free Live TV and Video on Demand streams. Plex Pass or not, you still see the ads. No way to disable ads.
Plex absolutely, positively does not inject ads into your personal media.
Amending FordGuy61’s response:
If you/they don’t go for a Plex Pass membership, using the mobile apps won’t be free. They can however be unlocked with a one-time activation (or a Plex Pass membership)
hey everyone,
thank you for all you replies and help i think im just going to stay with emby as i know when a host has a pass it will be for everyone on the server not just for the individual person and i cannot expect my family to pay for there accounts when i have got them to join to my own server. i remember trying plex a few years ago and pop up ads would come on the tvs to state i dont have a pass (live tv not taken into account) and if this is also the same for mobiles its just not for me 
There are no ads for people watching your server’s content whether they (OR YOU) have a Plex pass. I don’t know what nag screen popped up to bug you about not having a Plex Pass. Maybe you were using a mobile app, which requires a $5 purchase to unlock?
The main features of having a Plex pass are:
-Automatic unlock of mobile apps (iOS or Android) for plex owners (don’t need to pay $5 to unlock them. Can still use web player on phone to watch anyway)
-Intro skip and Commercial Skip. User of these features must have a Plex pass to have these buttons appear, even if the server has a Pass.
-DVR integration. Ability to use a DVR in-house and play/record channels/schedules using Plex’s interface.
-Hardware acceleration support for the server. Having a Pass as a server will allow you to enable hardware transcoding, which if your server supports it can massively lower CPU usage when having to transcode a video.
There’s not much else that Plex pass offers that I use. I got a pass mostly for DVR and intro skip, but a friend I invited still can use nearly everything else I have without a pass. He still gets videos transcoded, no ads.
BTW, there may be some confusion about managed users, vs friends, vs home users. Managed users are basically like Netflix, in which you can have separate profiles for people to click on when logging on in the account. Managed Users can swap freely between all other user accounts, unless you add a 4-digit PIN (very low protection). You can choose which users have access to what libraries, but with the low protection it may be best to just assume anyone can enter anyone else’s profile. I use it so my parents’ movie/show activity and progress don’t mess with my own progress in shows. – All managed users have the same permissions that the base account has. Have to log in using the master account email/password. I think there is a limit of 15 Managed Users?
Friends are accounts that have their own logins and passwords. If you invite your library to share with them, they can access any shared libraries in their list. They have basic access (my friend up above is a “Friend” user), but don’t get intro skip. Has a limit of… what, 200 friends? Not sure, but it’s pretty high.
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