Is it possible to use a browser client on another computer on my local network without being redirected to app.plex.tv? Do we always have to be online now to access our local servers? Everything I’ve tried so far is not working, allowing fallback to insecure connections, white listing my local ips 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255.
Yes you can connect to your server and even watch stuff without the need for it to be online.
127.0.0.1/255.55.255.255.255 is just a loopback IP that every computer in the world has so that is not your local IP.
Your server should have an IP in the private range something like 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x. or 172.16.x.x and those are the IP’s you need to “white list”
Once you figure out your server IP which if on windows you can issue a ipconfig at command prompt or on linux ifconfig in terminal window to find you can browse to http://x.x.x.x:32400 x.x.x.x being your private IP and you can view everything locally without the need for plex.tv.
You will also want to point each client to this IP as well.
Also see this post for additional info.
Thanks for the reply, but doesn’t the syntax ip/ip specify a range of ips? so 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 should include all ips between the two? which would include 192.x.x.x? maybe i misread how to input a range.
Nah that format is a full mask so 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 would literally just be 127.0.0.1 but IP addressing notation is always a mess nevermind all that jibberish.
This is how you want it in plex:
You can add one or all of those depending on what you use in your house.
Edited for more accuracy -
192.168.0.0/16 or 172.16.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16,172.16.0.0/16
caution: don’t insert those space characters after the comma!
This will cause the whole string to get ignored by Plex.
Just to point out that this advice is no longer correct. There is no way to access your local plex server, regardless of settings, without being redirected to app.plex.tv for authentication.
Silent bait-and-switch by “Plex Inc.”
