Having ability to play synced content from iOS app is great, but it uses precious storage. It would be great if I could sync some content (movies/TV show episodes) to a portable WiFi hard drive (i.e. Seagate Wireless Plus) and have Plex iOS app or Plex Chromcast app stream it directly from the drive. This would allow me to stream movies/TV shows to a Chromcast without the need for the existing WiFi network.
Assuming that wireless drive, iOS device and Chromcast are all on the same network, would it be possible to use UPnP client in Plex iOS app to discover movies on the wireless drive and then to either stream them to iOS device or cast the movie URL to Chromcast Plex app?
The drive's firmware would need to be hacked for it to be a server and even then Plex on ios doesn't have the functionality to recognize an external hdd, although it would see another Plex Media Server. I've looked into this myself and in the best (quick & dirty) scenario I reckon converting with handbrake or the like would be much more efficient.
This is a similar feature request, please like it for the idea to gain traction:
2021 clean-up: duplicate(s)
