Xbox One Plex App Update News

Thank you very much for this update. PLEX Home was heavily needed. Only thing missing now on Xbox One is the ability to Direct Play/Direct Stream with soft subtitles. FPS switching would be nice, but not possible with current rules for third party apps. Maybe when UWP comes to XB1.

So far no problem, thanks. How come rotten tomatoes rating wasn’t added to the app and will the next update take as long

No update for Alaska (so I assume all West Coast) yet. My fingers are crossed that the unlisted fixes include the application working on XBox One!

It seems to run slow. Poster art, delay in pressing buttons

Plex update is looking good! Thanks for Plex Home. Just one suggested enhancement…can we get the ability to ā€œattachā€ a home user to an xbox profile? I’d like to set it up so when I login on my xbox profile it connects to my Plex user, but when my kids login to xbox it connects to their Plex user. Right now I can automatically login to only one Plex user, but I’d rather it be a different config for each xbox user. I know this can be done via the old method, but using managed users would be preferred.

Had a quick play around tonight - seems nice.

Unfortunately channels that live stream audio and video still seem to be broken, the NASA TV and TuneIn Radio channels for example.

Would be nice if these worked and the direct stream of subtitles if it’s possible on XB1.

For now I think I might invest in an Nvidia Shield TV and plug this into the Xbox HDMI-in port, I think that supports pretty much everything I need right now.

@Terry Cinemas said:
It seems to run slow. Poster art, delay in pressing buttons
Could be caused by re-creating the cache, I could see my NAS CPU going to 90+% when I entered the movie library and started scrolling. I quit the app and re-opened and the thumbnails are still visible in the library and no CPU spike this time.

I cannot used Plex Companion via either my IPad or my iPhone. Server, Xbox One, iPhone & iPad software are all updated. I select the Xbox One in either the iPhone or iPad Plex app’s Player button, it highlights the Xbox, but media will not play on the Xbox. On the flinging app the little yellow wheel just spins and spins. I have tested flinging content between the iPhone and iPad and it works perfectly.

I’m having the same problem as @abeirnes but with my server on my windows 10 PC. Tried killing the Plex on Xbox One and resetting the server but to no avail. Also it appears lyrics are not working on my Xbox One. Tried a few songs that show they have lyrics on the server but don’t see where to enable them on the Xbox One.

The update was just released for the west coast. Unfortunately, the update is worse than the previous release. It cannot even see any servers at all. Please, please test before releasing. Thanks.

@mbarylski said:
Plex update is looking good! Thanks for Plex Home. Just one suggested enhancement…can we get the ability to ā€œattachā€ a home user to an xbox profile? I’d like to set it up so when I login on my xbox profile it connects to my Plex user, but when my kids login to xbox it connects to their Plex user. Right now I can automatically login to only one Plex user, but I’d rather it be a different config for each xbox user. I know this can be done via the old method, but using managed users would be preferred.

This please!!

ā€œPlay Show/Season starts from last watched/in progress item, with previous behaviour available via a separate Play All action.ā€

What does this mean? Can we finally hit play on an episode and the next episode will play automatically?

and we have another update for the Xbox App. Nice new features!

One of the new features won’t work for me : Play Show/Season starts from last watched/in progress item, with previous behaviour available via a separate Play All action.

When I try to use the ā€˜Play Show/Season’ button, it just starts at the beginning of the ā€˜new’ episode. If I’m correct it should start where I left (somewhere in the previous episode)…

@Terry Cinemas said:
It seems to run slow. Poster art, delay in pressing buttons

I think this was happening to me too - not quite bad enough for me to be certain, but definitely seemed more sluggish. Perhaps as a result of fixing some of the other library loading issues maybe?

Appreciate the update, and Plex Home finally though.

@abeirnes said:
I cannot used Plex Companion via either my IPad or my iPhone. Server, Xbox One, iPhone & iPad software are all updated. I select the Xbox One in either the iPhone or iPad Plex app’s Player button, it highlights the Xbox, but media will not play on the Xbox. On the flinging app the little yellow wheel just spins and spins. I have tested flinging content between the iPhone and iPad and it works perfectly.

@ZacharyMCraig said:
I’m having the same problem as @abeirnes but with my server on my windows 10 PC. Tried killing the Plex on Xbox One and resetting the server but to no avail. Also it appears lyrics are not working on my Xbox One. Tried a few songs that show they have lyrics on the server but don’t see where to enable them on the Xbox One.

There are some server fixes coming for a bug with Plex Companion that affects the Xbox One app.

@ShannaraAK said:
The update was just released for the west coast. Unfortunately, the update is worse than the previous release. It cannot even see any servers at all. Please, please test before releasing. Thanks.

Are your servers connected to plex.tv?

@maknilsin said:
ā€œPlay Show/Season starts from last watched/in progress item, with previous behaviour available via a separate Play All action.ā€

What does this mean? Can we finally hit play on an episode and the next episode will play automatically?

If you play from the show or season level it will start the first unwatched episode and then play following ones automatically.

For the others, please create a separate thread for any issues with the new update so we can address them properly instead of getting lost in this update news thread!

@SaraZ1 said:

@niallobr said:
Thanks for the update!

Any progress on direct play of subtitles or if it will even be possible on this client?

+1

I have the update installed , still not possible

i can’t understand why this option is still not available.
It’s 2016 ffs

Plex just updated on Xbone for me. Don’t see any release notes anywhere.

@cuzz1369 said:
Plex just updates on Xbone for me. Don’t see any release notes anywhere.

See the Xbox One Release Notes thread, in the Release Notes subforum.

@cuzz1369 said:
Plex just updates on Xbone for me. Don’t see any release notes anywhere.

Release notes here!

Plex for Xbox One (v1.7.1.0)

NEW:

  • Mobile/Cloud Sync server support.
  • Per Plex user app settings.

FIXES:

  • Issue with some preplay pages taking a long time to load.

Long loading times for preplay pages seem to be fixed !

Thanks

FIXES:

  • Issue with some preplay pages taking a long time to load.

FINALLY. This is awesome. Any news on the fixes for companion apps? Would love to be able to keep my controller off and just use my phone.