I’m currently on hour 5 of trying to get my new apple tv 3 to work with plex. Had I known there wasn’t an app for it I would not have got it. That being said, I’ve read almost everything I can find online about making it work. I am a total newbie and all this stuff is extremely confusing. I’ve done my best to follow instructions from pages I’ve found but plex is still not showing up in Movie Trailers. After changing dns on the apple tv to what the python program said it should be I immediately get “trailers not available. Try again later” when I try to open it. Is there a simple fix or should I just continue using my amazon fire stick for plex? I’ve tried to post the logs from python but I don’t know where they are saved at. Sorry!
I’ve posted a few links to YouTube videos that I found very helpful, would you like for me to post them here for you?
Yes please, that might help. Thank you
I just bought an Apple TV 3 yesteday and I have it working great with PlexConnect. Really fast as well, can’t complain about video quality either, Plex Media Server CPU usage does not spike and I really do not notice the refresh rate switching I was so used to with Plex Home Theatre, even 23.97fps content looks great (I set the Apple TV to 1080p@50hz though as I am in Europe)
Lets see if this helps OHisee
Part of the problem could be that when I open PlexConnect it says “failed to connect on port 80. An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by it’s access permissions”
From googling it looks like plex will only work on port 80 but it seems that it is google Chrome that is also using port 80. I’ve found in the settings where I can change the chrome port number but I have no idea what the proxy is or what port number to change it to. This may be way too difficult for me to figure out.
:80 is the std. http port. It is basically used everywhere in the WWW - if you don’t go with https/encryption.
So, yes, google chrome does use it, too. But for outgoing requests - it requests data on the remote server’s port :80, where the outgoing port id is whatever.
PlexConnect is different - it takes the role of the server and has to accept/answer incoming requests - send from aTV on :80 to catch some new data.
The shown error message usually pops up, if python/PlexConnect isn’t running with elevated admin rights. Use “sudo” on Unix/Linux or “run as administrator” on Win to work around that.
I’m not sure how to do that except for right clicking and clicking run as administrator, but when I right click on the PlexConnect.py file there is no option for run as administrator.
I’m not sure if this helps but here is a screenshot of what it says
@wpark2419@yahoo.com said:
I’m not sure how to do that except for right clicking and clicking run as administrator, but when I right click on the PlexConnect.py file there is no option for run as administrator.
When you FIRST opened “CMD” to generate your certificates,( OpenSSL ) did you run “as administrator”?
Yes I did. And for what it’s worth I just followed step by step the instructions in the video provided above again on my laptop and it worked fine and plexconnect works. So worst case scenario I will have to move all my movies from my desktop to my laptop if I can’t figure out why I’m getting the port 80 error. At least I could use it though.
FYI I just went and redid the certs opening cmd as admin again and once I was finished and opened plex I got the same exact error
80 might be this or if you host a web site (web server), not sure about 53:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/175761/port-80-in-use-by-windows-fix
Thank you so much for that! I managed to find that and shut it off and now it’s up and running. I appreciate all the help!
