Plexconnect from external network without local plexconnect server

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Hello is this posible ?

 

I got plexconnect working on my home Network.

 

But if i take my atv with me. to a friend. Is it posible to connect to my plexconnect server from my friends ip. So i dont need to run a plexconnect server on a laptop when im out ?

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jailbroken appletv2 or atv3?

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/86031-plexconnect-on-the-go-atv23-no-jailbreak/
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/88975-plexconnect-running-on-any-jailbroken-ios-device/
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/88905-plexconnect-on-atv2jailbroken-launchctl/

You could bring and use a number of different devices to host plexconnect if its a atv3 for example: rPI, jailroken ios device, laptop, nas and use the settings.cfg to point back at your home server and edit or pms. easiest is just to use myplex.

The atv2 if its jailbroken you can run plexconnect on the atv2 directly and change the settings.cfg to point back at your home pms server or just use myplex.

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Okey. So i cant just take my atv3 with me and connect to my plexconnect server from my friend ? I need a local running plexconnect ?

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You need a plexconnect host with you at your remote location. You can either use myplex to connect back to your home server or plexconnect on the go to have configured channels as all. All of it is defined in the links.

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Okey thank you. I could just be nice if i could get plex inside trailers. without a local running plexconnect :). But I will try the solution with atv2 jailbroken on my atv2 :D

Thanks for the help and fast reply :D

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The reason you can’t use it outside without a local plexconnect server is that plexconnect just a intercepts a standard ATV application (trailers by default) when a DNS call is made, so unless you have a sophisticated firewall that can only allow traffic to the DNS port (53) from specific external ip addresses (also means updating the rules remotely when at a new location or the locations dynamic IP address changes) you would have to open DNS port to the entire internet which means you could (and would) be used as a location for dos attacks and other DNS style attacks. (Most likely these attacks would also impact on your experience as well use to traffic volume over your internet connection)

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