I have a plex pass account. I have sent invites to my work email and my kids email. This is so that we each can have a different history on the server. all four accounts plus the original in house admin account are good. However, the app on my kids devices and my ipad, that are all using there individual emails, are unable to watch anything on the server when not in the house. We are all notified that we have to buy the plex pass subscription. AGAIN. That is just plain BS! I paid for a plex pass subscription and now you want every email address I use in my family to have to buy one as well. When I add people to my home and invite them they should not have to pay to use the app/browser/etc. That is what the plex pass was for, so I could set up an account and my wife kids can access there content from inside my network and outside my network. My understanding is that only one person in the home needed the plex pass subscription and that everyone else in the home uses it. Now it looks like everyone in the home needs a plex pass subscription or they cannot watch anything unless they are tied to the local network. We are all mobile and my subscription should allow everyone access, inside and outside the network.
The only reason there are additional emails is so that everyone has there own history. I can give everyone the admin account and it works but we lose are individual viewing history. How is that suppose to be good??
why can’t I link the other emails to my plex pass subscription?? You don’t limit the number of devices I can connect with. so if I use the admin account I could give it to whole freaking world. So how is that suppose to work? When I add people to my home they should inherit my plex pass subscription for the purpose of activating the apps. Why is that not the case!!!
If you add them to your home and then you sign them in with your username and password that will allow them to have the benefits of your plex pass account features since your kids are part of your home this falls under the acceptable use area. However your work people should merely have to buy the apps and get the features for plexpass features on their devices that way, they can sign in with their own username and passwords for that. However if they want acess to plex pass apps like PMP they would need to become plex pass users themselves.
That is not what I am doing. I went to friends, I invited myself, work email, and my kids. we all can access the server from the LAN and WAN. The problem is that none of us can use the app. How is that not an acceptable use! I am not adding work buddies, I am adding family members. including myself and I have a plex pass subscription. I want to use my work email so that my viewing history at home is maintained separate from when I am on the road. Again, how is this not an acceptable use!
I have seen in numerous posts on this site that what I am trying to do is acceptable use and only one plex pass subscription is required. I don’t understand how this benefits plex. As I said, I can give out my plex pass subscription account to anyone I want and all apps will be activated. I do not want to do that. I want the email addresses that I add to the server to be able to view the content on my server with out having to purchase a plex pass subscription for each “email address”/“family member”. Again, this is said to be acceptable use all over this site.
Otherwise, what is the use of a plex pass subscription. The only reason I bought it was so that all my devices could be activated. It didn’t say that each person in the home had to have a plex pass subscription. Again as I have said, having each user in the home with their own viewing history requires an email address different that the plex pass subscription email address. Many posts say that this is acceptable use and inherits my plex pass subscription.
You need to use Plex Home not Friends. If you set your family up in the HOME section then you will get exactly what you want.
First off, sorry I misread the work part I didnt catch that part. Secondly, the browser has always been free, so every user you have can use that. For the apps if you bought them via your IOS device you have two choices, either share the app with IOS family sharing so that you and your family dont need to pay for it, or as I stated before just log in with your username and password and then have them switch to their profile (if you added them to your plex home). Each home user doesn’t need to have a plex pass account, they just log in with your credentials and then switch to their profile.
Sure, very intuitive. Under “home”, I have managed users that can only access the server from the LAN. I have “an existing plex user” which can access the server from the LAN and WAN. Does the “existing user” still have to buy a plex pass subscription to activate the app or see the content?
No, you create the users as normal plex users (not just managed user within home) you then invite those users into your home, that gives them the access to do everything. (You will still need to sign into the apps using your credentials as that’s what allows use of the app features without have to rebuy them, however if they were IOS you could also just use the family sharing for the app and not have to worry about it.
All HOME users are sub users of the main account and inherit the plex pass.
Maybe time to read the readily available support articles:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/categories/200139156-Plex-Pass
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sections/200641063-Plex-Home
@quartzeye@gmail.com said:
That is not what I am doing. I went to friends, I invited myself, work email, and my kids. we all can access the server from the LAN and WAN. The problem is that none of us can use the app. How is that not an acceptable use! I am not adding work buddies, I am adding family members. including myself and I have a plex pass subscription. I want to use my work email so that my viewing history at home is maintained separate from when I am on the road. Again, how is this not an acceptable use!
I have seen in numerous posts on this site that what I am trying to do is acceptable use and only one plex pass subscription is required. I don’t understand how this benefits plex. **As I said, I can give out my plex pass subscription account to anyone I want and all apps will be activated. I do not want to do that. I want the email addresses that I add to the server to be able to view the content on my server with out having to purchase a plex pass subscription for each “email address”/“family member”. **Again, this is said to be acceptable use all over this site.
Otherwise, what is the use of a plex pass subscription. The only reason I bought it was so that all my devices could be activated. It didn’t say that each person in the home had to have a plex pass subscription. Again as I have said, having each user in the home with their own viewing history requires an email address different that the plex pass subscription email address. Many posts say that this is acceptable use and inherits my plex pass subscription.
Because you have gone the route you did, every invite is essentially its own individual Plex account - which has NO plex pass. This means that every account would then need to buy the app ($4.99) for full access to your media server. They don’t have to buy a Plex Pass sub. I would say that for what you want to do, the Home option is the best way - if you don’t want to make individual app purchases.
You also stated that you bought a Plex Pass subscription so all of your devices could be activated, which isn’t required at all for that - again, if you wanted to buy the app for $4.99 per account.
