My headless plexamp Pi is completely non-functional.
Due to plex’s lack of security standards, I’ve been notified that I need to change my password. This is bad enough - but you haven’t gotten your stuff together, and as a result, what should be a simple process, a password change for crying out loud, is a huge bloody pain in the neck, among other things!
From past experiences, I’ve learned that having the diligence to secure your account with a password change when necessary, will completely knock your server off, rendering it completely inoperable, with no intuitive path forward! I’ve also learned that this can be easily rectified with a browsing out to the server by ip address, signing in, and reclaiming the server. Easy enough once you know, although it would be nice if there was actually some method of doing this process without bringing everything down without warning and with no intuitive path forward. But whatever, I learned, I can handle that.
But this time around, I have to deal with the headless pi. It being headless, and buried in my car, makes this a pain in the neck to start with. Either I need to bring a laptop into the car with me, or tear it out of the car. Bringing a laptop in the car with me should be simple enough, if you actually had the capability of making a process that isn’t a huge to-do. But no……I don’t know what you did, but you didn’t do anything good. So I power on the Pi, it joins my hot spot, I join my laptop to the same hot spot, I browse out to the Pi by hostname:32500, and sure enough as expected nothing is available because it’s sign in has been broken. No intuitive path, no “hey buddy, you need to sign back in, how’s about your put your password here and we get back to normal” just the same old passive aggressive note that we’ll be stuck with silence if I don’t add anything, and nothing more. But I know what to do and why, so I go to settings, go to sign in, put in the email address and new password, and the sign in completes, which should be the end of it.
But NOOOOOOO!!!
I try to play something - and it just rotates the rotating circle, as if it’s buffering or trying to do something, but it isn’t.
I go to my plexamp app on the phone like I normally do, and hit the little corner button to select a different device, and the device is listed there, I click to select it, it won’t.
I start playing something from the phone to confirm that’s working - it plays, I again hit the button to select a different device, and select the pi, it says no. No reason, just won’t do it.
I restart the pi, it comes back up. I browse out again from the laptop, it’s still there. It still won’t play. I look on the phone app again - it doesn’t see the device. Laptop sees it, laptop browser shows it’s signed in and shows the libraries, but the phone is like “nope - it doesn’t exist. I can’t see it, lalalalalala”. So from the laptop browser I sign it out and back in again. It signs back in. Phone app is still all like “nope, I don’t care that it’s signed in, I don’t see it, it doesn’t exist, it’s dead to me, lalalalala”. From the browser I try to play something again. It won’t play. No reason why, just like, nope, sucks to be you if you want to actually listen to this library. I won’t tell you why, screw you, no tunes for you.
So I reboot the pi again.
No plexamp at all. Browser is all like, nope, doesn’t exist, not loading a page. Pi is up, I can ssh into it, but plexamp won’t let me in at all.
So - who broke it? What the hell did you do? And what the hell is one supposed to do when your lack of security forces a password change to appease this piece of crap sign in process?
