Hi All,
Apologies if this isn’t the correct forum. Long time Plex user at home, love it. Plex Pass and so forth - works great.
However the scenario I’m chasing is a little different.
We are wanting to implement Plex on a yacht that is going to be venturing far from internet access, for months on end. Ordinarily there’s LTE/4G and some satellite internet access, but not reliable (nor cheap in the latter) and non existent where it’s headed. The vessel currently runs a QNAP NAS, which can run PMS on it ( currently does not). The clients are a mix of LG & Samsung smart TV’s (new) which communicate with the network via Wifi or Ethernet, and will be able to see the QNAP IP without issue. There’s also Apple TV4’s in a couple of staterooms which will use Ethernet.
Client devices and PMS will all be on the same subnet, DHCP issued by a router (regardless of internet connectivity). QNAP/PMS statically assigned. There won’t be any DNS most of the time.
The idea would be that PMS be setup, with local network addresses permitted to access PMS without authorisation. We hope to manually define the PMS’s IP:32400 into each client, and have those clients able to access the PMS (using a singular account, no individual accounts).
We would setup the libraries and content whilst internet is available, but once the journey begins there’ll be no update to the content (should be no need for new fanart and such).
Currently there’s a clunky mix of DLNA delivered and other crude/less pretty ways (and some jailbroken ancient ATV’s running some flavor of kodi to SMB Share) … it’s all a bit haphazard and not intuitive, so naturally Plex way of UI is lovely and uniform throughout.
Is this even possible to do without ongoing internet access? Particularly with the latest breeds of smart TV’s and ATV4’s ?
Thoughts / opinions / warm dulcet tones preferred over any nerd rage but whatever works 
