Hi Everyone, It’s troubling to see the decline of the Plex product over the years in terms of good natured-ness and offerings to the user.
In particular, you used to be able to not have to log in to Plex to use YOUR local server. We live in a place with no internet and we have to use very old software.
in this day and age where every tech company wants to know way to much about you, see your data and invade your privacy, Plex seems to be on par perhaps not as bad as Windows 10.
Plex USED to be a wonderful, flexible products and to see it go down hill like this is saddening.
It seems like it would be good to have a fork and allow what used to be good about the product.
Agreed! I didn’t realize this was an issue until our power went out - being the nice guy I am, I offer to hook up our generator for the kids and wife to watch some movies, get everything back up and running… Go to open plex - no go. Why? Because the same power issue we had, our ISP had as well. So there I am with a useless plex server. Why did plex do this? Massive #fail on their part.
Can someone please understand that there must be local/offline availability, please?
Be sure your client is set to allow insecure connections “On local network.” Also be sure your server has secure connections turned off. You can turn security back on later.
Hi Elijah, This was done thank you. What I’m referring to is the windows client. When you start it up, you just get a sign in button with no way to bypass it. For those of us who have no land internet, it screws us.
Hi,
you can also enable no-authorization-required for local device(s). To do that, go to “Settings > Network > Advanced > List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth” and type in your IP Adresses. As far as I know, this is enough to stay offline
Hi,
this is how my entry looks like; everyone with an IP between 192.168.178.0 and 192.168.178.255 (my LAN IP Range) can access the server without the need to log in.
