I recently started to incorporate Label usage in my movie library and want to use that in conjunction with the ratings restriction for my kids accounts. What I am finding is that those users are only being restricted by Labels and Plex is ignoring the ratings restriction. Am I missing something or is this expected behavior?
Give some examples please.
Which labels do the movies have, which age ratings
and what is set for the user?
I am using 1080P and 4K labels in my movies to segregate movies without the need for multiple libraries. I have my kids set to show only 1080P (label) and G, PG, and PG-13 (rating). I seem to be able to have one or the other, but not both. If I remove the label restriction my kids can only see the movies with the proper rating, but if I add the label restriction back in they can see all of the movies with the label and any rating.
FYI, I am running PMS 1.11.3.4803 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
So I read the link, but I am not really seeing where this is an OR situation. In fact, if anything, I would think they do work together based on this excerpt:
“You can also select specific content ratings from your Library to share as well as content that you’ve set with a specific Label.”
Given that PMS is using a database backend there really should not be anything preventing both from being used simultaneously.
So, is this basically saying it does not use a subset, but whichever set is the largest? So if 1800 of my films are labeled 1080p and 900 are ratings that I have approved then Plex will simply use the 1800 instead of looking at both sets of restrictions and using the appropriate subset (which in this case would be the 900)? I mean that is what I am seeing, but I think that is pretty dumb.
You need to keep in mind that these are not ‘restrictions’.
They are the opposite thing: A ‘white list’ of items which your kids are allowed to see.
If you grant them access to items labeled ‘1080P’, then they will see all of these.
I went in and created a ‘kids’ label to circumvent the problem. While I disagree with Plex’s methodology I have at least figured out a work around. Thanks for the response though.
