We recently setup 6 RasPlex clients on a network with internet that is intermittent at best.
Since the initial setup things worked for a while. The system wasn’t used for a few days and today we discovered that the RasPlex clients are no longer finding any libraries.
On the clients home screen we only get the “search” option.
The Server is a headless fedora box.
Clients have static IPs
On the server Prefer ssl is disabled
Allowed subnets without auth is set for the whole local network.
IPhone app works fine (it has no internet either).
Web player works.
All the clients are listed on the web player and play to functions work perfectly.
We tried manually defining the server address on the plex clients.
Hello,
I have the same problem as simon00. On boot of my raspberry pi, if there is no internet access, rasplex cannot find my plex media server on the local network.
You can’t set the date/time permanently, there is no RTC, every time you power down the RPi it will lose whatever time it has. It needs an Internet connection to set the time.
I am currently reviewing several RTC’s for compatibility with Rasplex and will report back in a separate topic when I have a recommendation.
If you have correctly set the country and city in Preferences it will load the correct date and time every time Rasplex boots, provided the is an Internet connection, also a good idea to set wait for network if you are using wifi (not recommended). This works perfectly fine for 10’s of 1000’s of Rasplex users.
It’s with cable (i can see correct ip), but sametimes work fine and too often no. I’ve setted country And city correctly in preferences but it doesen’t work
We are still having this problem.
It’s starting to get rather frustrating.
The gear works great as long as the internet is connected but if we move out of range and anything gets reset i.e. when we switch generators they can’t reconnect without internet.
Any suggestions on how to get rasplex to reconnect without internet would be great.
To fix the time issue could you set up a local NTP server and configure rasplex to query it instead of a web based one?.
We have a server on a UPS with a built in RTC that would work for us. I’ll try setting up a testbed tomorrow to see if it works
@cataroberto said:
I ve discovered than the problem is the date/time of the client (rasplex in my case), But i don’t know how set these values permanently
A Local NTP server fixed the problem. Now rasplex can set the time without internet.
I Setup the following test rig:
Plex Server running on fedora Linux Vm
NTP server running on same linux vm
pointed Rasplex to the local NTP server.
Before setting up the NTP server I disconnected the internet from all devices and rebooted rasplex. As expected once finished booting the pi couldn’t find the plex server. After setting up NTP Rasplex connected within a few seconds of updating the time post reboot.
Edit, Added links to NTP server setup guides.
@NedtheNerd said:
For anyone running PMS on Ubuntu, here is a very useful ‘how to’ for setting up ntp on your server and using it for local devices.
