Wifi showing up as remote connection

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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I’m running Plex as a docker in unraid. I guess I’ll describe my setup and hopefully somebody will have an idea of what is going on.

  • Plex on unraid server
  • eero mesh network mostly wired backend. 1 router using wifi back end
  • Lots of Apple devices. Ipads, Iphones and a few Apple Tv’s.

I’ve noticed some stuttering during video playback and couldn’t figure out why since I’m playing using direct play. I checked the dashboard and it shows video and audio being transcoded and it indicates remote with a bizarre IP address. 192.168.0.1. My network is 192.168.7.x.

I’ve never personally had an issue streaming anything in the house, but my son says every once in a while he will watch a movie and it pauses and then streams again. I checked what he is watching and sure enough it shows up as remote in the dashboard. He’s on wifi and it says remote.

Isn’t remote for devices that are outside of the network? All of my devices are connected to the same mesh network including all devices wired. I’m not running any separate networks or customized subnets. all 192.168.7.x

Is this a remote relay at work? I should have plenty of bandwidth in the house since everything is connected to a 1GB network.

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I’m not on Docker, but since you haven’t gotten any responses yet… I’ve seen several of this type of remote issue come through for Docker installs. Adjustments for how Docker handles networking have typically been able to resolve the issue. Here are a couple of discussions for how people solved:

Eero does some interesting things with it’s IP range - appears to default to a subnet mask of /22, and so 192.168.4.0-192.168.7.255 are valid. Note this if setting “LAN Networks” in Plex. That still doesn’t explain the 192.168.0.1 - typically you would expect that to be a gateway/router address. Possibly a guest network? Have you double checked on the actual devices themselves, that Plex is saying are 192.168.0.1, to see what IP addresses they are showing?

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Hey mate I had this exact some problem (i.e my plex running inside a docker container was being identified as “remote” even though I was streaming in from within my home network.

I’m not sure if you have done this already, but make sure the docker container network is set to “Host”

Eg: the docker-compose looks like this:

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - VERSION=docker
      - PLEX_CLAIM= #optional
    volumes:
      - /path/to/library:/config
      - /path/to/tvseries:/tv
      - /path/to/movies:/movies
    restart: unless-stopped
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Thanks for the replies so far everybody. I just checked and I’m already running my Docker in Host Mode and I disabled Remote Relay to see if that changes anything. I’ll get back if I notice an improvement.

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@SuperDooper I found the reddit post I put up several months ago and heaps of people had a lot suggestions regarding this exact problem. Have a read through all the comments and hopefully this helps:

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