I was using 3 managed users - but after a while of people adding devices I lost track of who was who… so I went back to a larger list of managed users - and discovered there is a user limit. So now I’ve put a “guest” user back in the mix - but that circles me back to my original problem… I can’t tell who is connecting.
Anyone got a good way figured out? Maybe I just need to force smarter users to make their own Plex accounts… Is there a max on those?
If the devices that Plex registers are literally for specific devices - and I could rename those (or block them until I know who they are) - that might solve my issue.
You shoud only add people to your Plex Home if they are living with you in the same household. That’s what it was made for: immediate family, especially users without an own email account.
Adding other people into your Home is a security risk as well, because they are only a 4-digit PIN away from your own admin access level.
All others should use their own Plex account (Plex ‘Friends’).
Authenticating devices is then their own problem.
And it enables them to set their own language preferences.
Managed Users are limited to 15, including yourself. And those count against the 100 @OttoKerner mentioned for “friend” accounts.
PlexPy can tell you who, what, where from, what device (type), when and track it all historically. As long as you had PlexPy running then, you could go back and look at who watched what on the 23rd of April 2015 for instance. (And if they used iOS or Android or Web App…)
Or who has or hasn’t watched True Grit, and when they watched it, was it Direct Played or Transcoded, etc.
Really strigent requirements… Python 2.7 and just install it to it’s own directory. Might need to do some juggling to get it to run as a service on Windows, but there are enough tutorials out there for it. And most NASes can run it pretty easily.
I run PlexPy on the same NAS I have PMS installed on and it works great.
