you could check the devices list on MyPlex?
it dosent work 100% i have friends who use my server all the time, but they never appear on the devide list, 1 friend uses it everyday..yet myplexapp tells me he hasnt logged in for over a month !!
I would love this
I also think it should just be for plexpass owners so that more people donate money
Lots of good ideas in here. This is an important one to us as well.
Lots of good ideas in here. This is an important one to us as well.
I for one am very glad to hear that. This is the most important thing I need added to the PMS at this point. Even just some rudimentary info to start would be welcomed, with more bells and whistles added later. Not knowing if anyone is connected to my server has really become a bit of an annoyance for me the more I use the system. Hopefully we'll see some movement on this before too long. :)
+1
While knowing what is being played is interesting to me I'm most interested in knowing the bandwidth utilization. To measure that I use iftop, an open source unix monitoring tool. I use filtering to only display source port 32400. I can see the users (ip) streaming and the bandwidth utilized. Even though most of my users have dhcp from the ISPs the addresses are stable enough that I label the IPs in my hosts file.
I call the command via an alias which is ==> alias streaming='iftop -f '\''src port 32400'\'' -p'
+1
+1 for this feature too.
Not sure if it was implied already in original post (probably was), but of course it would be most useful to have this as a historic/user friendly overview option where you can look back over the past month (or a user definable period) for the usage (how much GB streamed) and not only as a on the spot viewing/adjustment possibility. Especially useful since you'll be be able to identify heavy users over the past period. Then someone is able to tell their kid/spouse/third cousin from mothers side/gym teacher to keep their usage in check ;)
So in short: +1
Edited: show that by usage I meant in this instance how much GB
Another user who would really like to see this feature implemented. Looking forward to see what the devs will do with it.
+1 !
+1 here
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Add me to the list!
Whats the word Elan? Are we remotely close to seeing this? I ask because I was looking at my little snitch logs and I noticed an IP from from Almaden CA who took the lead as my biggest streamer with 20GB streamed so far. This surprised me because I don't know anyone from Almaden. What I think happened is a friend of mine might have "shared" his account with one of his friends, but I can't be sure, and without better monitoring tools on the plex server, I really have no way to tell.
Before you all jump down my throat, yes I know I can block that IP, and I have. But thats not the ideal solution here. I should be able to tie a user to that ip address and go from there.
Is this really that difficult to implement?
Is this really that difficult to implement?
yes.
yes.
It is all relative. I think of all the amazing feats plex has accomplished. Web Client that lets you stream in browser, ios client, android client, windows server and client, encoding and syncing to a device for offline viewing, the ability then to project that offline content onto another client...remote control, etc. Those are amazing capabilities that were not easy to implement.
Comparatively, a log with who logged in (user id) and from what IP just seems pedestrian. Wouldn't all server authentication systems have that somewhere? At this point I will just take a dirty text file. Anything really, its been 9 months.
its not just about that. there are features like Mutliuser logins/myPlex this would be tied into it. clients need to be updated to send info back to server etc etc etc. and they still have to deal with current bugs and other things like finish the things they already started like they just release the Android client today.
Would just doing what you find most important, the way you feel it should be implemented easier, probably. but seeing as they have to think about how it affects everything..... and they want to to be better than a "dirty txt file"
+1
