With access to 2 Plex servers this new Home page is useless.
Why is MY server hidden under >MORE ?
Why isn’t there a Pin for the entire server?
Why should I have to pick individual libraries, of the 18 I have?
Why does this interface hijack my session and force me through setup stuff (with LITTLE information on why you’re even seeing it or how to use it) on every device when I could not care less about some fool’s idea about a worthless Home page?
Why is web-based garbage the only defaults on the Home page?
Why, after UNpinning web-based garbage does it come back all by itself?
This interface is unintuitive and a major PITA! No information about what it is, how to make it usable again, nothing. It is nothing but aggravating.
Why are libraries shown on the left below Home with an Unpin but NOT shown on this Home page thing?
Garbage - utter garbage. Causes FAR too much pain to be usable - ESPECIALLY with people like my mother!
Each to their own I guess. Personally I had Emby installed, all my libraries scanned in and was a few hours away from sending out the Emby share invites. That was the point that I got my first taster of UNO and to be honest the switch to Emby got abandoned.
With regards to 5 & 6. As you refer to the web-based stuff as garbage (I don’t use it either) then have you considered disabling it in your account profile. Then you will never see any of it mentioned ever again in any client.
What I really got upset about was it being forced on users and how confusing it was the first time you try to use it. Ruined an evening due to time and aggravation of trying to get it to work on a Fire TV. The GUI is seriously non-intuitive and lacks basic information to help people, like my mother, get it working again.
Glad the tip with the web based stuff helped.
Beyond that we differ totally. But like I said each to their own. I also have two servers and find it far easier to get to where I want to go in UNO.
When you first used this new interface it should have gone through a wizard to help you set it up with some of the customizations in that article. You should have been able to pick the server (if you have access to more than 1) and all the libraries to be included. In that article, there is info on how to reset everything and start over.
Ya, after an unknown and unexpected auto-update and being in a bit of a hurry it was an unpleasant surprise. Being forced in to an unintuitive interface where none of my content was obvious where you have to go to a computer to look-up why/what/how is not a good upgrade approach. The upgrade should show what was there before, period. Anything else is poor engineering, QA, and product management.
If the intent was to “force” people to do it so they set it up in your new vision of a fancy home page, as opposed to just restoring what content was there, then that’s just a bad idea, sorry.
Over the several iterations of the user interface layout and approach this one is the worst. It may be flexible, oriented toward individual user desires, and all that buzzy stuff, but it is a pain, and I haven’t even used it that much yet.
The Home Page should have been the same. The big difference was going from the horizontal list of libraries at the top to the vertical list along the left. However, for you it sounds like you may have inadvertently picked another server to be your primary, so the Home Page looks different.
Sorry but the only thing close to forcing was done by Plex users and not Plex themselves.
The previous “media type first” was a true god awful mess. Many of us were forced to use it whilst being told it was great and we were simply reluctant to change.
Eventually it hit the Roku and that’s when it hit the fan.
I get that you don’t like UNO… Nobody can ever expect to please everybody.
However you have to understand…
Every post in every negative thread about UNO equates to less than an hour or twos vitriol in the the great Roku meltdown thread.
Plex finally had little choice but to accept that they got the previous UI so badly wrong thanks mostly to the Roku but partly due to at that time the word “Emby” appeared more in the Plex forums than it did in the Emby forums.
Well it only had the web stuff … but maybe that’s because I have access to 2 servers so I had to pick one first? In any case the Fire TV UI was mostly empty with unclear instructions. And it was a bit of a shock and aggravating.
That’s not quite accurate. With 2 servers the UI was mostly empty. UNO setup is not obvious or intuitive in any way. Having to go to a computer and look-up How-To information doesn’t cut it when you’ve just hit this new, empty, thing. I think it comes down to what the defaults are in this case and the shock of “what-the-hell is this thing?” and “where’s my stuff?”.
It is ridiculous to allow the user to Unpin that web stuff, which is DISABLED in the server Online Media Services configuration, then force it back on to the left-side. What? Is Plex pushing it because they make money on it???
Ah - it’s kept in cookies. DUMB … anyone who doesn’t regularly clear their browser cache is asking for trouble. Beside, I’m a software engineer and clear the cache multiple times a day.
What?
The only reason they ever appeared in the first place in UNO is because you didn’t have them disabled in the server. It’s not idiot proof. It doesn’t know that you can’t read user guides.
Disabling all the web stuff is absolutely NOT new.
I guess you have to “not” be a software engineer to learn/read how to use software.
Have fun… I’m done.
Yes, but was not prepared to deal with forced setup and no content at that moment. Didn’t know the app updated. To actually make the home page useful takes times to learn how to drive that UI and go around selecting all the things that used to be there. The defaults aren’t good.
Also, the web-based items are disabled in the server configuration but keep coming back after clearing cache. Don’t know how it behaves on a Fire TV at this moment.
What other Plex clients do you use? Many of them have switched to this new interface. If you’ve used the hosted Plex Web, you will also see this new UI and the setup wizard that should have run for you.
Did you just remove them from the Sidebar or disabled them at the account level? If you just removed them from the sidebar, then yes things get reset if you clear the browser’s cache.
I primarily use a browser direct to :32400 and have not upgraded the server to UNO yet. The Fire TV threw me off because it goes through Plex web of course.
The web-based options were previously disabled and still are in the Online Media Sources.
After experimenting the pattern seems to be only if the user has not actually put anything on the Home page or pinned anything to the left-side. Then they reappear. Once other items are added they do not come back. So this is an edge case that probably does not need code changes.
I have a lot of issues with the new interface on my iMac. I have 3 Plex servers. Any server can be used at any time so there is no “favorite”.
So on my Mac I bring up Plex. On the left I See some of the 20+ libraries from my two servers, each labeled with the associated plex server underneath. Not all of the libraries are showing, I have to go down to “more” to see them all. I know I can configure somehow but just an extra, annoying step. Seeing the Plex server names duplicated 20+ times just distracts one from the focus on the libraries. In contrast the old interface just showed you the libraries from the server which was chosen. It was a simple process to open or close the library list for any server
So I go down to more to see all of the libraries. I chose a library from the 2nd server. I play a title, but the pick list on the left hand side has scrolled up and is showing the libraries from the first server. The only way I know that I’m playing from the second server is the tiny server name at the top of the video list.
In addition the left hand pick list has now changed. The server name is no longer under the library list, there is just the master server name at the top, as it used to be. So I have to figure out “oh, the server name under the library is missing, I have to go see if there is a master server name at the top”. The inconsistency in the way the libraries lists are shown just makes things that more confusing.
Found another issue. Was transferring ratings from one server to another. It was a nightmare as the pick list (and selected server) kept changing so I ended up changing ratings on the wrong server.
When I was adding folders to a library on the QNAP the “<…back” button wasn’t at the top as it used to be, but was embedded in the folder name lists afterext, tmp, and share. So you now have to search for it …
Read the article about customizing the big screen apps, Is there anyway of customizing the web browser version on my Mac? If I can get rid of the libraries showing which are displaying for the the first server shown then I won’t have scroll to server (often via more), do a library change, then scroll to server (often via more) to do a library change on another library.
