Ok… One of the reasons why I went with Plex in the first place was that it worked great with out internal network at home even without an outside connection to the world (I live in a rural part of Texas, reliable internet connections are very expensive, and hard to keep up at times)
For some weird reason now, only 1 of our Rokus, and none of our other devices can connect to our Plex Server. I can’t even go to it locally on the machine.
I can’t even look at the settings or the home page, because there is no internet connection at my house currently.
There is nothing like a free lunch. One of the reasons for this seems to be the use of the codecs which are required to decode the material. Dunno how Emby handles that but everybody is free to choose the software of their liking.
Does that mean the codecs are NO LONGER IN PLEX PASS? If I remember, when I first purchased my Plex Pass Lifetime subscription, it seemed to work just fine when my internet service was down. Please clarify.
No they are included, but licensing agreements seem to require an Internet connection for them to work or whatever. I read this somewhere in a post from an employee, but cannot get the details right anymore, sorry.
Blockquote This isn’t accurate at all, I am sorry. The “always connected” requirement is fairly recent. I have been a supporter and user from the beginning and never had an issue until a few months ago.
Checking licenses dependencies doesn’t require to always be connected in order for PMS to be accessible. In face it could be coded so that in the event it cannot reach out to submit such a report, it has a call to check the connection until it is successful and sends the report immediately once it is available.
There is absolutely 0 reason to deny access on a local infra due to this as there are a plethora of industry acceptable practices that deal with this very issue.
OH and fyi, there has been an issue since at least last night around midnight eastern time as I added some movies and some of the metadata was not downloading.
