Starting a poll on the ability to control the volume of a remote player. I find the lack of such a feature to be ridiculous and illogical for such a product and how it is used.
Does it make sense to have an out of control volume of a remote player, specially if that player is tucked away and is only accessible via a remote session (e.g. RDP, VNC)? The ability to control the volume is a MUST and should have been implemented along with the Remote Player feature on its birthday.
There have been may request for this feature, yet the Plex Devs have yet to provide this function. Hence, why I am posting this poll. Hopefully with enough up votes it will warrant the Plex Devs to listen to their customers on this badly need feature.
I so hate polls. The only people that can gain any insight to the data are the only ones that should be allowed to create them on these forums. IMO, that would be the Plex Team. All a poll does is add less weight to existing Feature Requests as people feel it’s covered by a poll, which the Team ignores even more than they are ignoring the Feature Requests.
And then having 3 of them exactly the same?
If you think this feature should be in any of the “remote enabled” client apps, then search for an existing request, and if there isn’t one, create it yourself.
@“MikeG6.5” said:
I so hate polls. The only people that can gain any insight to the data are the only ones that should be allowed to create them on these forums. IMO, that would be the Plex Team. All a poll does is add less weight to existing Feature Requests as people feel it’s covered by a poll, which the Team ignores even more than they are ignoring the Feature Requests.
And then having 3 of them exactly the same?
If you think this feature should be in any of the “remote enabled” client apps, then search for an existing request, and if there isn’t one, create it yourself.
I pretty much agree, Mike. I vote in polls if I have an opinion but I do not delude myself into thinking they have any real value or are in any way influential
Most of the time people on boards like this create polls in the belief that the result will support their point of view and most people use the results in exactly the same way most people use statistics:
“Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.” Mark Twain
There is little real value but they can be fun. Not everything in the world needs value or importance.
To get at the OP’s question- @NVader2000: what are your audio settings on your “remote player.” I’m guessing that you’ve set it up to passthrough audio, as opposed to transcode? If you’re passing through (i.e. saying that the player can handle Dolby Digital, DTS, etc), then Plex (and any player, really) will not allow any audio adjustment, as you’ve specifically requested the audio to be passed through. It would be like complaining that you can’t change the volume on your DVD/Blu-Ray player…
I have a few Pi’s set up, and the one where I need volume control has been set up specifically to transcode all audio, which gives me volume control right there in the Plex app. Hope that gives a little help.
Well that would be great!. I hope to test either tonight or tomorrow to see if what you say works for me. Still waiting for my Pi to arrive. 
Ok I am not finding passthough or transcode options on the Plex Media Player.
Ok so I am using Basic as this is connect via 1/8 to RCA. I do not see though options in the PMP
Interesting - so you’ve set your audio output to “analog” correct? If that’s the case, you’re right, there shouldn’t be passthrough settings since analog can’t handle bitstreaming any of the Dolby/DTS encodes…
Not too sure what to tell you - I’m running Open PHT. My audio path (for my bedroom Plex) is RPi3 -> TV -> TV Audio Out (RCA) -> Lepai 2020A+ -> Stereo Speakers. My audio settings are HDMI 2.0 output, with Enable DTS-HD Decoding “on” and all other Passthrough options left unchecked.
If you want to give it a shot, try running OpenPHT to see if you gain some form of remote volume control with the settings I provided.
Good luck!
I am giving up. My aggravation was solved with a $35 Chromecast Audio puck. Far cheaper, less aggravating, and more intuitive that Plex running on Pi.
The simple concept of controlling a PMP is broken. No volume control (let alone from the devices volume buttons), much delay and very cumbersome in its navigation, very easy to lose control of PMP and are forced to power cycle the PMP device (in this case Raspberry Pi).
Sorry Plex, you failed in this area.
