@elan said:
@Plexhilarated ~ Way to digress, homie! On the second thread, a Plex dev weighed in and asked for more details, nobody’s given him any yet.As best we can tell, it’s related to a state storage issue, and is neither widespread nor reproducible by us internally. Have you tried explicitly signing out?
If you follow the threads that are related to troubleshooting the Vizio app, you would see Elan, that not only are people logging out and (trying to) logging back in, but in many cases they are completely reseting their TV’s to manufacturer’s defaults and reinstalling Plex to no effect.
I likely have one of the few working Vizio TV’s now in the Plexverse, based on the numbers of replies I have had and comments I’ve read from other threads. I have my router port forwarded to both 32400 and my alternately designated port via Plex’s Remote Access interface. The TV is a static IP, and attached via Cat 6 to the same AP (router) the NAS (static) is attached to. (Also via Cat 6.) But then again I think of Plex as a client/server SUITE and treat my NAS as a server just as I would any other server in such an environment. It is a SERVER first, and I am the administrator of it. And I need to control the access to or from it and outside access is controlled at the router. So I set up the router accordingly, just as I would for an Exchange server or any other server in such an environment.
I have NEVER had the problem like what those in various Vizio threads have stated they have. Instead I have issues with movies dropping out 42 minutes to 53 minutes into the movie, on almost every Direct Play movie I try to watch. But if it’s transcoded it plays all the way through… I have to watch the movie via the Web App on a computer to finish it once it drops out. And gods forbid I try watching a TV show that’s 54 minutes long. It’s marked as watched when it drops out at say 51:12, unless I somehow catch the drop out…
Why haven’t I reported this before? Because my TV is working (mostly). Other people can’t say the same… And having to finish GoT S06E01 on the 23" monitor next to my laptop is nothing compared to not being able to watch it at all on a TV across the room.
This one app isn’t a make or break for me. It is for others, though. And that’s indicative of the whole issue surrounding Plex as I see it, now. It has been on-going for Vizio users for at LEAST 6 going on 7 months, and for many of them it’s still not working. And you used this app as an example of commonality of code between devices? That’s where the problem lies IMO… It’s BROKEN! But you had to use this as an example?
I’m a disabled Veteran. My disabilities are related to my right hip, and both feet. When asked if I can walk the answer is yes, I can walk, but “not far”. Most people hear the yes, but don’t understand that “not far” is only a couple of city blocks even after I tell them that’s the limits. So when I can’t keep up, they get upset. They heard what they wanted to hear. Just as you have heard what you’ve wanted to hear. Now you are hearing the “not far” and wondering “Where the hell is this coming from” because you didn’t hear or understand the whole thing we have been saying for a couple of years now.
Plex is a good piece of software. I absolutely love it, and I have personally set up at least 10 different users on Asustor platforms in the last 2 months using Plex as a basis of their Home Theater environment. (Look at the links in my signature if you don’t believe me!) BUT!!! Plex is missing some very basic controls for user administration, user bitrate limits and the tools to see what the users are doing even if they aren’t playing a stream but are still accessing my server.
I hope you heard the whole thing this time around.
