Alright this latest update explains why the server broke. Now when are they going to fix it? Damn wasted a day chasing this thing down.
Server on my Shield has been broken for last two updates . It says it’s running but isn’t and no devices see it all, not even the shield itself. Come on Plex please sort this mess out I can’t transcode 4k without my Shield as Plex server on NAS can’t cope with it.
I did a little more testing on my problem today. The client on the Shield itself works fine. But most of the time there are all kinds of problems using remote clients on the local network and it does not matter the client type. PC, Roku, Andoid TV are all seeing issues. Once in a while the stream will work and play to the end but most of the time it’s the spinning wheel of death or really bad picture quality (PC). I have an extremely fast network, both wired and wireless. Using other media servers I’m rocking 4k at 88 Mpbs without issue, either wired or wireless. This is a bug introduced to the Plex Server on one of the updates. I suspect the problem is in the network stack. The original server for Shield was working fine for my application.
That sounds like being directly from Donald Trump’s playbook.
What does that actually mean?
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No man, I’m just cutting to the chase without listing my network. I was a network engineer for many years. I run all commercial grade Cisco equipment. My house is hardwired with Cat 6 cable. My wireless network is a commercial grade mesh, Ubiquiti UAP-AC-PRO UniFi Access Points if you really want to know.
Normally one gives numbers/categories like 100 Mbit, Gigabit, 10 Gigabit. But ok I got the point. If you are playing on a TV with a 100 Mbit Lan interface, it doesn’t matter much what speed the rest of your network has, but you probably got that sorted.
Well I don’t need help with my network. Everything in my network is gigabit. The 88 Mbps streams should tell you that because you only get right about 70 Mbps payload through a 100 Mbps connection.
Sadly Redfirebrooks, I’m looking again too for my Roku devices. I thought maybe Plex had matured enough that it was stable now. Unfortunately it appears it is not. Similar problems are why I bailed years ago. I just don’t want to make a hobby out of fighting with my media servers. I want to set it up and forget it. I have the Apple side of things covered covered with Infuse and it works quite well. I’m going to try and move the off of the Shield and try running Plex on my NAS (Synology 918+ for Coxeroni) and see if it’s stable and powerful enough to handle the tasks I need it to perform.
This thing is so broken. This morning I wake up and everything is working fine, kind of scratching my head. This afternoon it won’t take a connection from any device.
A complete power down of the Nvidia Shield and restart solves the problem for a couple of days. Maybe the problem is an old fashioned memory leak of some kind, buffer overflow, something like that.
Despite having exclamation mark for the Remote Access, my server managed to be accessed from outside. Recently updated the PMS to Version 1.19.1.2630,and now the remote access has tick icon. I think the problem has been resolved with the latest update. Thanks PLEX team.
My server on my shield has stopped and I no longer have the ability to restart it. I even deleted plex and attempted to reinstall it as it now just continues to cycle as it states the server is starting for the first time. I attempted to use my older shield as an alternate server and the server will not start on that one as well. Someone please help.
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Same here.
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