Plex Shows Offline For All Devices *INSIDE* My Network

[FordGuy61]

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I’m running 1.20.5.3600, which is a slightly older version,

1.20.5.3600 was released November 2020.

There is a problem with current Android apps and older PMS releases. The problem first appeared in May. Plex has not released an updated Android client that works with the older versions of PMS.

Updating to a current Plex Media Server release resolves the problem.

The workaround is to disable secure communications in both Plex Media Server and the clients.

See this post for additional information:

Connection Error when playing films on android tv app

As @richyh67 mentions, there is a problem with current versions of Android/Android TV apps and older versions of Plex Media Server. The Android apps are rejecting the security certificate from the server for some reason. Users running Plex Media Server versions 1.18.x and 1.19.x are definitely affected. The problem may happen with other Plex Media Server versions (I don’t have a list of all affected releases). The problem is visible in the Android client log: [FFmpeg] [ERROR] [tls @ 0xc35efb…