One of the reasons I use Plex and any media on local devices is so I can use it when the internet is down. While it doesn’t happen often, I’ve had issues with my internet service in the past, and lately I’ve been getting a disconnect/reconnect once every two days. It’s incredibly frustrating when I want to watch something, the internet drops and I can’t access my streaming shows so I turn to Plex for my local media, and I can’t watch it because it can’t sign in.
Is there any option for this to work offline? If not, I might have to look at another product.
For intermittent outages i have found using your Mobile phone as a hot spot and paring your Server to your phone for Authorization to Plex’s Mothership.
The Plex for Smart TV apps load over the internet so without internet, the app wouldn’t even load. If the app is already running, losing internet shouldn’t stop it from continuing to work. The only exception is Plex for Samsung, which does install a local copy of the app so it will work without internet. But it still can’t sign-in without internet.
The Plex for Smart TV is not the ideal choice for offline use. An actual Roku device would be best for that.
My internet provider has many trouble and issues,
but I can’t change them because he has house law.
If we have no internet I can’t start Plex on our Smart TV (Samsung Q7), because he try to connect to internet to login with the configured account. But that doesn’t works and so we get the login screen where we can register the TV on Plex.tv, but that doesn’t work without internet!
I checked also my configuration and I allowed all my locally devices to access my Plex Server without authentication.
Now the question how can I use Plex on my TV without internet? Is it possible to develop a button where you can select “offline mode” and use only locally ip adresses?
Conditionally using an existing internet connection to use Plex defeats the purpose of Plex.
