I really appreciate the profile feature, as it lets me manage what the kids can access. However, unfortunately I can’t tie DLNA to a specific profile. If I enable DLNA, any device that can use DLNA has complete and total access to my database.
Therefore, a huge improvement for DLNA would be to either have a feature to remove certain locations from showing up on DLNA, or better (and probably simpler) an option to tie DLNA to a specific profile. So for instance, if I set DLNA to my guest profile on the server, only things shared with the Guest profile would be available over DLNA.
Unless I’m completely mistaken (and I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong) the DLNA protocols as they are currently written don’t allow for user or device profiles. (This is actually one of the major problems with DLNA.)
As the protocol itself doesn’t lend itself to this, if Plex were to build something outside of the existing DLNA protocols it’s going to look something like what Plex is already.
In other words, they have already done about as much within the protocols as they can and came up with the current user and permissions systems we have for Plex outside of DLNA…
As I said, I might be completely off base, but this is how I understand DLNA and how it’s supposed to work… Any device on the local network has access to anything shared via DLNA that exists on the local network. Regardless of the devices it’s shared from, or the devices that intend to play it.
I believe you are correct, which is why I want to tie what Plex exposes over DLNA to a specific Plex profile.
In my case, I have two profiles. One is for me, and then there is the “Guest” profile for the kids. The Guest profile only has access to the kids movies. I want to tie DLNA to the Guest profile in Plex. That way when my DLNA enabled devices connect to Plex they can only see what is exposed to the Guest profile, not all off my Plex library.
To reiterate, I’m aware of the limitations of DLNA, I just want to have another option besides either everything exposed over DLNA, or no DLNA. In my mind, the easiest way to accomplish this is to give an option in Plex to tie DLNA to a specifc profile, and then only expose the media that is shared under that profile.
I can also support @shellster with it it should be that kind of option.
I have it previously in Twonky and it was warking perfect on my QNAP serwer. I was thinking that PLEX hav that option too - it was normall for me, but it’s not.
