Sharing sync'd media across devices from different eco-systems?

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Hi,

Seems I might of missed something re. sharing content sync’d locally to iOS devices - either that or something isn’t working!

I’m currently testing a mixture of clients: PMP running on Mac’s, RPi2, Amazon Fire Stick, iOS, Samsung TV, Xbox 360, PS4 etc, web app.

When I sync content locally to one of my iOS devices (say my iPad) I can then select this as a source (or rather ‘media server’) from my other iOS devices - working in any combination across the four I’m testing with - however this iOS sources are NOT displayed on any of the PMP clients, including notably the Fire Stick which I was considering using to stream from an iOS device when traveling.

Is this expected? ie. iOS sync’d content can only be shared with other iOS devices? Or is something amiss/broken? Certainly doesn’t seem to fit into Plex’s cross-platform credentials.

I of course get there might be some transcoding issues, that said I thought once down on an iOS device the format you’re left with (locally) is pretty much a known lowest-common-denominator that all other Plex platforms should be able to play, no?

Thanks.

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the iOS ‘nano server’ isn’t a full PMS. It’s intent is extremely limited. It’s designed to play locally and cast to other players. It is not a ‘source’ other devices can download from.

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@ChuckPA said:
the iOS ‘nano server’ isn’t a full PMS. It’s intent is extremely limited. It’s designed to play locally and cast to other players. It is not a ‘source’ other devices can download from.

Sure, this is what I was expecting / wanting… but not getting: I want to cast locally from an iOS device to a non-iOS device. Should this work? The key here being cross-platform, I can get iOS to iOS to work fine, just nothing from anything else.

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@simonw500 said:

@ChuckPA said:
the iOS ‘nano server’ isn’t a full PMS. It’s intent is extremely limited. It’s designed to play locally and cast to other players. It is not a ‘source’ other devices can download from.

Sure, this is what I was expecting / wanting… but not getting: I want to cast locally from an iOS device to a non-iOS device. Should this work? The key here being cross-platform, I can get iOS to iOS to work fine, just nothing from anything else.

It’s supposed to work, but I never was able to stream from an Android device using an iPad… Got logs together a while back, never got attention from the devs.