Send server messages

Feature Suggestions
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@lordvon01 said:
What would everyone think of a side scrolling message? It’s not sending messages but it’s something you can setup on the web UI.

Edit: It’s already a feature request. I hope is this something they can put in soon. I’ve got a lot of friends that use my PMS on a daily basis.

Could you possible provide a link to the feature request? THANKS :slight_smile:

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I’d also really love this feature.

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@eric_grau said:

@lordvon01 said:
What would everyone think of a side scrolling message? It’s not sending messages but it’s something you can setup on the web UI.

Edit: It’s already a feature request. I hope is this something they can put in soon. I’ve got a lot of friends that use my PMS on a daily basis.

Could you possible provide a link to the feature request? THANKS :slight_smile:

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/94485/feature-request-message-of-the-day-server-info-ticker

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@lordvon01 said:
What would everyone think of a side scrolling message? It’s not sending messages but it’s something you can setup on the web UI.

Not good enough if it only works in the web ui. Has to work with all clients. Or outside of all clients by sending a maintenance email.

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My proposed solution for broadcasting a message to currently active streams and new streams once started:

  • I am making an assumption that most users are not streaming to 10 plus clients at the same time.
  • Change direct streams to transcodes on active streams. This way Plex is able to modify the video being sent.
    - When it transcodes to alter resolution, have it embed the message like a server-side added subtitle.
  • This would not rely on modifying anything for each client hardware.
  • Set a timeframe to broadcast. If you are going to shutdown in 30 minutes(i.e. 16:00 local time), have the message appear for that long. New streams that are started during that period will be automatically transcoded and server-side added subtitle message will display from the beginning of their video (with updated minutes remaining and message). This will make them rethink starting to watch a movie/show.
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I would like to see this implemented.

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wow… this sounds great… hope its coming soon…

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Sound great… +1 for me!

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+1 I have wanted this feature for a very long time and would save me a world of headache

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+1 been waiting a looooooog time for this

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That would be an amazing feature indeed! +1 from me!

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+1 from me. It would be a great feature. Also the ability to end a stream if needed would be handy

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THis would be amazing. Please look into this, this would save me so much time.

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This is a really great idea. I’ve been migrating my server to a new OS the last week. This could have been very useful to notify when my server was going offline as part of the process.

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@Sleepwalker said:
It would be great as a PlexPass user to unlock a feature to send messages to the viewers.

  1. Information on planned maintenance (running every 20min or so)
  2. 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

YES! Absolutely! They could even make the messages on plex.tv so when you do take down the server for maintenance, all shared plex user will know as soon as they load plex and hit your server that your server is down for planned maintenance…
or a scrolling marquee when browsing remote servers(Not when playing something though), only when browsing the libraries…
or a new setting within plex to email all friends with per-define messages.
I know, this has gone beyond sever side messaging but it’s all good…

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Amazing idea please implement this!!

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This would be an amazing addition. Devs please consider this!

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Server to client messages would be sweet. Something easy to code also.

Like today I’m finally cutting the cord and there is one person remotely watching a movie. I have no way to contact this person by phone because it’s a co-worker… I mean I’m not at work so I can’t just walk over there and tell him. Would be nice to send a message to him “Hey after this movie please don’t stream anything else as I need to upgrade my network”.

The ability for them to send me messages back and place them in an inbox would be cool also. Then they could tell me when a movie doesn’t play correctly or something like that so I know.

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+1 from me too!

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+1 here too. Currently sending out emails but in server notification would be much better so I don’t have to spam out emails when doing maintenance.