My photos library doesn’t show on the Plex homepage in the IOS App, but I do see it on the New Plex Photos App. Is that as designed or intended? and there is no option to change to a diff server on the IOS app.
I have two servers running, #1 is 24/7 for music and photos, #2 is the ‘Main’ one, for all videos and the same music as #1, which is switched on as required.
Locally, both plex’s show all the libraries, also so does the AppleTv app. The webpage @https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/……… remote access, shows both servers and all the libraries. “All” By which I mean, I can see photos from #1, music from #1, videos from #2, music from #2.
But on the IOS app, I don’t see the music from #1, unless I open Plexamp. Again is that as designed or intended?
And as mentioned above, I don’t see a way on the IOS app to switch between servers, so I only see the videos from #2, no music from #1 or #2 and no photos from #1.
The ‘show all libraries’ list, from which to choose favourites from, on the IOS app does not include server #1 contents. Only the Main server #2.
And seems to crash the app if I try the dropdown option at the top left more than once!!
When the new app generation was drafted, it was originally intended to split out music and photos into separate apps.
This decision was later revised, but this hasn’t been materialized in the apps yet.
You don’t switch between servers in Plex. You only switch between libraries, no matter which server they’re on.
If you don’t see the libraries of a newly added/started server, there are usually 2 possible reasons:
the app needs to fetch updated server info from plex.tv. The most reliable way to force it to do that is log out and back in on the app. If you have a Plex Home, you can “Switch User” back and forth instead.
the second server is not available per secure connection. The new apps only support secure connections. In the local network of the server this in turn can often be blamed on DNS rebinding protection being active in your local DNS resolver. (which is usually part of your router) https://support.plex.tv/articles/206225077-how-to-use-secure-server-connections/
I think I am clear now. So it was planned to seperate photos and music, but it did not actually happen in reality? but seems to have happened, for my IOS devices (with Appletv the exception) because I can only see the photos on the IOS photos app, regardless of which server the library resides on, and can only see music on those same IOS devices through Plexamp.
PlexPhotos and PlexAmp are both excellent app’s but is it not possible to have the best of both worlds? perhaps.
[a quick aside, there are two links at the bottom of the IOS plex app page “See All Libraries” where one can set fav’s, it says “Looking For Music and Photos?” neither of these have an action available, because on an iphone XS Max the “GO” buttons are off the screen]
Regards the libraries I do ‘see’ at each different connection. see below. As I expected I see all libraries from both servers on the desktop locally and thru you guys remote access.
Regards your suggestion #1, I signed out and back in on my two IOS devices, but the available libraries didn’t change. And I’m not smart enough to get into security tricks for #2.
It did happen. The new apps are a complete rewrite from the ground up. So music and photos were never in there from the beginning.
It will take a while until the support for these media types is added back in.
