Seriously… How is this not a native function yet?.. It’s 2022. Plex is a server application. So many server apps I use, and none have permission issues with anything. If it requires a fresh install, sure, I’d not be a fan of it, but if it’s necessary, so be it. I’ll deal for such a necessary feature as this. I don’t want a third party solution that Plex devs and the third party don’t communicate. One team, so updates don’t break functions. One company so everything works together. Not some guy in his basement maintaining a business level solution…
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How come there’s no native support for this? And not even an official recommendation for using a 3rd party workaround?
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+1 for a bump also voting. I use PMS As A Service and it works but it is a PITA for updates would be much better if it just ran as a service natively. I understand that the Plex team is working on other things that are arguably more important. I feel that this would just improve the general burden on people running a server and be one less step for us to have to deal with.
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Just found out that we had a power cut this morning, and although the computer automatically restarted, and other Server applications automatically restarted, plex did not because it isn’t ran as a service, and there solution is a 3rd party application that creates a security risk due to updates needing local attention as well as some third party unknown source programming it… Brilliant. All scheduled recordings have failed. How is this not a thing - if a 3rd party have (bodged) this functionality, why have plex not done so natively.
Possibly sadder is that this request is over a decade old. How about that!
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Wow - this has been an open request for 12 years!
It’s frustrating that Plex doesn’t auto-start when the server is rebooted. It’s caused the DVR to miss recordings, and for the family to be unable to watch Plex content.
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When will this be an option. Should be standard. I have been waiting for this for years.
My Plex server on Windows occasionally has issues and the process terminates… and doesn’t automatically restart because it’s not a service.
This is such a simple fix for developers to implement in the installation package. I can’t believe this still hasn’t been done.
