@coderrob said:
I’d like to see a ‘maintenance mode’ created (either through a CLI command or button in the WebUI, whereby when PMS is entered into it, it allows existing streams to complete, but does not allow new streams (allowing clients to gracefully ‘drain’). An accompanying message which can be set when entering maintenance mode would also be useful.
I accomplish this by removing the port mapping to my server. Existing users get to finish their movie and new users see the server as being down.
I’m currently doing a similar thing, and for the most part I’ve trained my users to accept that it’s OK for Plex to be out for 10-15 minutes, but this is far from an ideal solution, and I still get ‘is Plex broken’ SMS/calls when users get connection errors. Being able to put up a ‘Don’t Panic’ message would go a long way, and being able to drain clients would be an added bonus.
Would love a way to post a notification to users like “plex going down for reboot” etc. Give them warning rather than it cutting off with nothing.
Equally it would be awesome if they could message or report any content with faults. I have over 12k video files so can’t maintain and check them all. If a user could message or flag a faulty file would be great.
After a little research I’ve found that PlexPy can perform notifications. All you need to do is set up notifications but a status would be great. So, you are planning to do server updates you can change your Plex status to state when it may be down
@lordvon01 said:
After a little research I’ve found that PlexPy can perform notifications. All you need to do is set up notifications but a status would be great. So, you are planning to do server updates you can change your Plex status to state when it may be down
I found the notification setting in PlexPy before but it doesn’t seem to notify the users I have my server shared with. Ideally I would like for there to just be a banner or something displayed when they log in. A simple server MOTD or something similar.
@lordvon01 said:
After a little research I’ve found that PlexPy can perform notifications. All you need to do is set up notifications but a status would be great. So, you are planning to do server updates you can change your Plex status to state when it may be down
I think what most of us are looking for is an on screen maintenance message displayed in any Plex client that connects to our servers. Such as the Roku client, Android client etc.
+1 for this I have wanted this feature for quite some time. I have not been able to find a satisfactory plugin to meet my need for this and any 3rd party messaging app requires yet another account and some additional login information. I have a few older relatives shared on my server that have been educated enough to use Plex but are not educated on technology enough that I could expect them to use a 3rd party messaging app. If I could simply pop up a message saying “I am restarting the server” or “Taking down for maintenance” it would save me some confused phone calls as to why the “TV” stopped working.
They should send an email to anymore who is registered to your server. All done from the Plex servers. This is is private without needs to access any personal info from the users.
@Crafteh said:
+1 for this I have wanted this feature for quite some time. I have not been able to find a satisfactory plugin to meet my need for this and any 3rd party messaging app requires yet another account and some additional login information. I have a few older relatives shared on my server that have been educated enough to use Plex but are not educated on technology enough that I could expect them to use a 3rd party messaging app. If I could simply pop up a message saying “I am restarting the server” or “Taking down for maintenance” it would save me some confused phone calls as to why the “TV” stopped working.
Exactly, its a huge positive to anyone that is a friend or uses the server remotely. Also, you touched on a great point, the non “Techie” people won’t understand and a simple popup for a few seconds or till removed by plex admin from plex server settings would be amaxing!
