# Send On Screen Notification to Users Currently Watching **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [December 6, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446 "2014-12-06T22:39:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Imperativeoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Imperativeoz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Imperativeoz)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/1 "2014-12-06T22:39:24Z")
Hi.  I will like to be able to send a message that gets transcoded into the movie so that I can tell my users that will be shutting down the server. So if they are watching a movie, they see the message saying that the server will be shutting down for maintenance/upgrade at X time. ---
**Author:** ![Jeax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e36b37/32.png) [@Jeax](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jeax)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/2 "2014-12-08T11:11:32Z")
This would actually be really awesome, I always feel bad when somebody is watching something when I have to do server maintenance. Maybe a small banner in a corner can be overlayed with the plex logo and the text. Can even be a super lazy ‘dinners ready in 5 minutes!’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jrinehart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jrinehart](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jrinehart)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/3 "2014-12-10T20:33:46Z")
I am looking for this feature as well. I host almost 40 users to my PMS and trying to text call or text them is becoming quite a lengthy process now. ---
**Author:** ![Kevlo9](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kevlo9/32/10781_2.png) [@Kevlo9](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Kevlo9)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/4 "2014-12-10T20:45:14Z")
I would like to see this feature as well.  I host about a dozen users and would like to be able to warn them if I need to shut down/restart the server. THANKS!! ---
**Author:** ![rafaelmathieu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/rafaelmathieu/32/91148_2.png) [@rafaelmathieu](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rafaelmathieu)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/5 "2014-12-10T22:54:03Z")
That would be a cool feature +1 ---
**Author:** ![johnmag3](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/johnmag3/32/7433_2.png) [@johnmag3](https://forums.plex.tv/u/johnmag3)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/6 "2016-03-06T03:36:58Z")
I also would like to send messages to either all users currently watching or I would like to send a message to one user and not all… this is a feature that alot of us would use. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/7 "2021-01-17T00:38:49Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate (one of many) > [@Send server messages](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-server-messages/23773): > > It would be great as a PlexPass user to unlock a feature to send messages to the viewers. Information on planned maintenance (running every 20min or so) Restart information (one time message) and so on. This would be nice to have when you have a shared server. Vote on the poll, and maybe give a comment in suggestions to make this feature request better. Best regards Sleepwalker ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/send-on-screen-notification-to-users-currently-watching/85446/8 "2021-06-10T00:45:05Z")