Dude i payed from day one (close to 10 years now) and had all sorts of issues along the way and always had to fix them myself with no help from anyone from the plex team not once, but now my live tv and dvr doesn’t work on my mobile devices and that’s the reason i bought the lifetime plex pass so my parents could watch tv abroad where they live half of the year, and i am not even mentioning tha stupid and unintuitive ui changes they made to the app. My users are old (75+) and when theirs homescreen changes and i cant change it back ( through out their stupid recommendations and trending now bulshit), not to mentioning that stupid preview screen in the dvr that cant be moved so the guide only shows 3 channels and all the other bugs … I never objected to the price. I paid on day one of me using plex. I fixed all the issues myself along the way and all the issues were update related bugs and sombody pushing versions witout fully veting them (epg formating errors in plex etc, resulting in me makeing apps to change fully correct epg to something plax wrongly expected to have their dvr start working and then changeing it back a few months later when they realize that they made a mistake… it allways felt more like a job than like a service i paid for but i loved it just the same because it made my mom happy to be able to watch our local tv, and i made it possible with a lot of work and research and tweaks (for the plex update mistakes and the fact that they dont have dvr support for my region). But now they pushed an update that destroyed the dvr completly on ios devices (works fine on my laptop but on anything else not at all… I am a paying customer (and i brought a lot of ppl over to plex over the years) at least they should give me the curtesy and testing the app changes before rolling it out! Am i wrong?
I just want to play my content within my local network. It promised to stay free of charge but for many people it will not. I run plex server in a docker container in TrueNAS. Since docker container has isolated network, plex considers video streaming as remote when I play it on my TV in my home network.
So now I’ll have to pay monthly subscription just to play my own content on my own TV in my local network. That’s bad. I’d agree to support developers and pay something, but not a monthly subscription. And lifetime pass of 225 EUR is a way too much to play own movies on own TV at home.
Looks like I’ll have to buy Fire TV stick and run Jellyfin.
Anyway, thanks Plex for nice experience in the past!
Or you change the container’s network settings to host, in which case it’ll use the same network as the host machine.
Where? When?
You don’t need to do that. I have Plex set up using an isolated docker network (it’s behind a reverse proxy) and it recognises my connection as local. I believe you can set addresses that should be considered ‘local’ within the PMS settings.
You can, but that’s a Plex Pass feature.
From https://support.plex.tv/articles/200430283-network/
LAN Networks
Very few people will need to set or change this preference. It simply lets you specify which IP addresses or networks will be considered to be “local” to you. If you set any bandwidth limits under Remote Access, those do not apply to “local” playback and only take effect for remote playback. By default, only the network subnet on which the server is located is considered to be “local” (which is appropriate for the vast majority of users).
Tip!: This feature requires an active Plex Pass subscription for the Plex Media Server admin Plex account. Addresses can be specified either as an individual IP address or a range (using IP/netmasks). Do not include spaces or tabs.
Ahh, good spot. well like you said there are other ways and means to set up docker to allow local streaming
Thanks. I’m aware or this option. But it introduces serious security risks and I can’t go for it.
Would be nice if Plex can resolve this issue.
I’d be glad to pay a lifetime license to run a server in my home network from within docker container if this is relatively easy to set-up, but not 225 EUR which is too much for that. I’d pay some 30 EUR just to support development. I don’t trade, that’s just my oppinion 
Such as? Plenty of people run Plex directly on a device or in docker using host networking without any issue.
The fact that many people ignore risks, doesn’t make this method safe
Here are risks:
The main security feature of Docker networking—network isolation—is bypassed. An attacker in a compromised container can:
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Eavesdrop on host network traffic.
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Use host ports and services directly.
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Launch network-based attacks more easily (e.g. ARP spoofing, port scanning).
The container can: -
Access services running on
localhostof the host. -
Potentially exploit services not intended to be exposed to external users or even to containers.
And probably the main risk:
If combined with a privileged container or if the container is running as root:
- The container might manipulate host network configurations (e.g. iptables, routes).
- It could inject packets or sniff traffic, leading to full system compromise.
P.S. I don’t want to put other services at risk, especially my TrueNAS
No but you’re just lame, Paul.
What’s crazy is how seemingly grown adults are on the internet day after day complaining like children on a forum. And instead of figuring out solutions to the problems they face they just continue to complain at the company. These forums have turned into one giant temper tantrum.
Emby and Jellyfin exist so by all means if you are unhappy, switch over. Plex has every right to try to monetize and stay profitable. My $75 lifetime pass purchase from over a decade ago contributes absolutely nothing to Plex currently, but they are still honoring it and not removing any functionality that I paid for. And in fact when I paid for it back then it had way less features.
As long as they continue to honor lifetime plex pass purchases and keep personal media apart of the ecosystem, Plex is still the same company that I supported with a lifetime pass all those years ago. And in many ways, better (I remember how horrible multiple apps were compared to now).
This is often missed by folks running via the Plex “app” in a TrueNAS environment, but if you don’t enable “Host Network” (which means you’re using the bridge driver in this case) you need to include the extra environment variable “ADVERTISE_IP” in your configuration.
This is done by editing the Plex app config in TrueNAS Apps → Plex (or whatever you named it). In the “Additional Environment Variables” area, add a new one:
Name: ADVERTISE_IP
Value: http://docker.host.ip.address:32400/
So if, for example, your TrueNAS system has an IP address of 192.168.1.100, the resulting value would be:
http://192.168.1.100:32400/
This becomes the connection information advertised to local clients for connections. This doesn’t affect your security posture (I noticed you were concerned about that in subsequent comments).
Once the env variable is added, update the container (which will stop and redeploy it). You’ll also need to close any Plex client apps which use the server and re-open them so that they retrieve the newly-published connection info for the server.
Here’s an example from my system:
I have been with plex since they forked from xbmc. It was sad cancelling my sub last night. But I went from years of seamless playback on all my devices to absolute crap in one upgrade. Add to that the price increase at the same exact time the app goes to hell and it was an easy decision.
I have set up all the alternatives and am testing which replacement I will be using. Have fun all!
I have to agree with you. @229Mick I’m not really a fan of Plex these days either, but once you’ve got the lifetime pass, they don’t charge you again, at least not so far.
I see you spamming all of those threads day after day complaining (about other people). In which way this is helpful? Do you want people to behave differently? I mean, it’s a forum and as far as they don’t breach any rules… just let them.
Not everyone is the same, has the same needs, the same temper, the same opinion. You clearly voiced yours. Thank you. You don’t need to push people to have your opinion. Noone asked you to do this.
Over and over again, I see you telling people to switch to another solution if they are unhappy. I see this as rude behavior. Those people just lost a software version fulfilling their needs. so, stop telling people to go elsewhere.
And if somebody needs 365 days to find all things in a software that he or she is unhappy with… then be it.
This is a slap into the faces of people who just got features removed that they got used to.
I told you before and I am telling you again. Happy you. If you are fine with what Plex is doing, I am happy for you. But stop telling other people that they should not complain any longer. Your use case is not better or worse than theirs. It’s just different.
Everybody needs to relax about the missing features. They overhauled a lot of the code, and so it broke a lot of features. They’ll slowly add them back into the new app. Unless they’ve stated an official discontinuation of a feature like they did with “Watch Together,” I would simply give it a few months.
But you know, if you guys wanna waste your energy worrying about it, that’s your decision.
Are you taking bets on Plexamp coming to TV platorms, are you guaranteeing that concert stuff and music videos will be part of Plexamp? Are you really sure about device setting not getting account settings? Are you sure about the sh*t not hitting the fan once the borked software will hit all other devices?
I foresee that they will offer some kind of API and at the same moment drop support for lagacy libraries/agents. I foresee that they will bring out some kind of admin tool and at the same time take away the local IP Plex Web interface.
I find your enthusiasm about everything else will be back on track sooner or later very optimistic. But hey, Christian… as I read your other messages ATM, you don’t see much hassle altogether. Others are seeing the dawn of Plex or want to sue them.
Interesting times…
People have a right to be upset that the engineering managers are ruining software that we already paid for. The staff however does not have a right to gaslight users about the product operating “as intended” or that users are either 1) wrong for wanting what they want or 2) using the product “incorrectly”
You haven’t paid for any software.
Staff and users not agreeing on these points is not staff gaslighting anyone. It’s a disagreement. Noone is trying to psychologically manipulate anyone else into believing things.
People have a right to be upset
I never said you didn’t have a right. I agree the app is bad, but I choose to accept the situation for what it is. You can cry all you want, for any good that will do you.
trying to convince people that plex isn’t software is gaslighting 
