Shared server not showing?

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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Server Version#: CentOS 7 RPM plexmediaserver-1.24.5.5173-8dcc73a59.x86_64
Player Version#: web

Just tried to set up a second Plex media server at my parents house so we (they and me) can share a HDHomeRun Prime tuner.

The Plex servers (mine with movies at my place, and their new one for the HDHR) are both signed into my account and I can see both LiveTV/DVR pages. They can see my LiveTV/DVR, Movie, and TV show shares.

They can not see the LiveTV/DVR on the server in their own network unless I add a dummy empty movie share and also share that to them.

Any idea why they can’t see LiveTV/DVR (or the server at all) in their account on Plex Home unless I share at least one other movie directory? Is this a bug?

I also wish there was a way to manage permissions on the Live TV sharing…it works fine with Plex Home members but doesn’t offer share/don’t-share on a per server basis (a plex-home person gets Live TV on all my servers, or they get no TV access on any server).

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They are going to need a library anyway, in order to use the “record” feature of Plex. In fact they are going to need two, one of the type “movies” and one for “TV shows”.

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At the moment they don’t have any interest in recording, just being able to watch like the slingbox could. For now I “shared” an empty folder (the machine there doesn’t have much disk space free…have to come up with more hard drives) as a workaround but it seems a very strange behavior.

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