Plex Media Server

[ajtatum]

@girish - In all reality, is Plex on the radar still? I have everything in Plex and tried (and hated) Emby and Jellyfish.

[girish]

@ajtatum yes, don't see why not. I think one issue when I last checked was tha Plex was not using local login i.e while the plex installation is local, the authentication is via their cloud. I don't know if this is still the case.

[ajtatum]

@girish I'm not sure how I know this, but I've heard that with seedboxes when someone sets up a Plex Server you have to go to plex.tv/claim and it gives them a code so that the local Plex Server can be associated with that account without having to login first. I don't know if that helps at all, but like I said... it's just something I've heard.

[marcusquinn]

@murgero Did you copy the app package to git.cloudron.io so we can review and see if it can be made publishable?

[murgero]

@marcusquinn Oh gosh no, even if it was - I wouldn't use such old code from 2019. I could probably give it a try again now that I know more about the cloudron api and such?

[necrevistonnezr]

@murgero said in Plex Media Server:

@marcusquinn Oh gosh no, even if it was - I wouldn't use such old code from 2019. I could probably give it a try again now that I know more about the cloudron api and such?

Oh, yes, please!!

[girish]

iirc, the issue with Plex back then was that there was no local login (or maybe i misunderstood). Is this still the case?

Not that this is a blocker , we have since become quite a bit pragmatic

[marcusquinn]

@murgero I think it's worth the effort. It seems to be a common search, and I can see the benefits of having it, given the broad awareness of it for smart TV integration. There's also more collaborators here too now, if you get stuck on anything.

[Trackborne]

This is literally the only thing stopping me from going cloudron full time. It is the most popular media server app with the most clients. I think it really would be worth getting this on the catalog.

[privsec]

@Trackborne
Have you checked out Jellyfin?

[necrevistonnezr]

@privsec you suggested the same thing a year ago https://forum.cloudron.io/post/49425

And no, it‘s not an alternative:

[marcusquinn]

I agree, Plex is a high-quality and user value app. Vote count helps highlight these views, too.

[girish]

What is the auth situation with Plex? Is it local auth?

[necrevistonnezr]

@girish I believe there’s no local auth, though you can allow no-auth access for local network clients… https://support.plex.tv/articles/?s=Authentication&search=support_articles

[avatar1024]

@necrevistonnezr Well I suppose as you say it was a year ago, maybe Jellyfin has got some way and improved what it was capable of?

Plex s very slick for sure, yet not Free Software and not as private.

[mhgcic]

This would be great to see this.

[RubenFixit]

I created a post in the Plex forum. Maybe the Plex staff will create a Cloudron App.

[bmwx3000]

@murgero Hi !
I apologize for contacting you 5 years later but I wanted to know if your Plex application project would succeed?

I installed Plex via Ubuntu, alongside Cloudron. It's perfect on a local network, but impossible to access it from the external internet network.

Is help possible?

[murgero]

@bmwx3000 said in Plex Media Server:

I installed Plex via Ubuntu, alongside Cloudron. It's perfect on a local network, but impossible to access it from the external internet network.

You cannot do this. It's not supported by Cloudron. Sadly my plex project has been dead for years I'd recommend installing plex on another device or vps and using that for plex for now.

[AartJansen]

I just run plex server on my windows gaming PC, its accessible anywhere. And the gaming GPU makes transcoding a breeze. The storage is on a NAS with mapped drives. cloudron is on the same home network, but doesn't need to interact with it at all.