It appears an update has caused the slideshow function of plex to stop playing the slideshow continuesly … I have 8600 photos and slideshow always worked fine till about 3 months ago and a friend has the same problem… 3 different Rokus do the same thing… would appreciate any help thanks
Joel Smith
So the slideshow only fails using a Roku? Does it work while using the web? Or any other client?
yes I only use roku’s
having this same issue myself after recent updates; not sure if a Roku Plex update or a Plex server update was the issue; we play a photo slideshow on our home TV all the time and it will run for about 5 minutes before it throws up “loading…” and eventually just crashes the App and goes back to the Roku Home screne. Any help here?
I am running on Roku 4 and same issue where the plex app just hangs up on a picture and will not continue - Roku generally needs to be restarted as it seems to lock up when this happens.
I edited your title and asked the Roku team for some clarification and see if they can repro it.
Keithah - any update on this? Still locks up after a little while.
I believe I have found a work around at least for my issue. The Roku 4 has a screen saver setting and it was set to 10 minutes. Unlike other items that are playing, like a movie form Amazon, Netflix, Plex TV shows, Plex Home Movies, etc the Roku screen saver does not start when I am playing any of these media. For whatever reason, when playing the Plex Picture Slide show, it does not recognize this as an active Media and after the screen saver setting, it stops playing the picture slide show and just continues to show the same picture. Even more odd, is that when I was playing both Plex music and Plex slide show at the same time, the screen saver stopped the slide show image, but the music from Plex continued to play. As soon as I turned off the Roku Screen Saver, the Plex photo slide show continued to work. I am not sure what the issue is (Roku or Plex), but this handshake between these two on the picture slideshow is not working correctly. Again, playing other types of media from Plex on the Roku does not have this issue.
