Send server messages

Feature Suggestions
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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.

OMG I would love this feature. Never fails, right as I need to reboot the server for an update or add more storage, a family member connects and starts to stream and I have to either cut them off or call them and tell them I’m taking it down. Would be wonderful to be able to post a message they see when they open the app or web page saying it will be down for maintenance or other information at a set time. Will save me some hate texts! HAHA

162

+1 would be very helpful. Could avoid angry kiddies :slight_smile:

163

Yes, I would love to see this

164

This is great. The way the Plex Team announced the Nvidia Shield Integration the same way updates are announced at the top of the screen could be ideal and simple.

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@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.

166

+1.

This would be really helpful, indeed.

167

What are the odds of this becoming a reality? I would really like a feature like this!! +1

168

I also like this feature!

169

+1 I have tons of users and would really love to see this. I clicked like on the first post to vote for it!

170

+1 would be very useful.

171

this would be great. the suggestion’s been around for YEARS now. Time to implement?

172

This is gonna make life a lot easier - love the idea. +1

173

+1 Great Idea. Infos for Friends are a must have.

174

Great idea! Let’s hope it will be integrated soon.

175

+1 Would love this

176

+1 Awesome idea. Had the same thought, did a little research and found this thread which had been around for years… Might be time for the Plex team to see if they can do it?

177

Or at lease let you show a “Daily Message” where it you can write a message to your users to let them know you are doing maintaince on the server.

But I +1 this :slight_smile:

178

I knew that this would be a requested feature… +1 here, would be really handy!

179

I was going to make a new post for this, but I’m glad I used the search function. This request has been around for quite some time now so I’m not too optimistic. It can’t really be that hard to implement so IDK why it hasn’t been done, people obviously want this feature!

PLEX DEVS, PLEASE DO THIS!!! +1 +1 +10000

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+1

Useful for maintenance notifications.