Install jellyfin.
/annoyed I paid for a lifetime membership and still couldn’t invite household members without paying for their licenses too, with plex. I kinda got it working local only but it was still crappy compared to jellyfin, where accounts work exactly as I expect them to, for a server I maintain fully.
annoyed I paid for a lifetime membership and still couldn’t invite household members without paying for their licenses too
Invite your users to your Plex Home and they would be able to use the majority of Plex Pass features...
I did. iirc they couldn’t download media to watch during a trip or remotely stream. It was also cumbersome to make full external accounts.
That’s all changing soon.
please explain, I haven't seen anything specifically mentioned that Plex Home will change.
Yes, you will need Plex Pass for remote streaming at the end of the month (only as admin for all of your users or every user needs Plex Pass or that new "watch" thingy).
Plex Pass sub will now be per server you access to. No more free to stream. Now people who has access to your server, can use the mobile app - and won’t have a 5 minute limit for example. Which is why they’re upping their price for Plex Pass lifetime soon.
Yes, I am aware of those changes but what has this to do with Plex Home?
From those changes, as long as you, the Server Admin, has Plex Pass, your Users would still be able to stream remotely without having Plex Pass themselves:
When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee.
And there is nothing being mentioned that sharing your Plex Pass features to your Plex Home Users will change in any way.
I installed via their .deb repo. Pretty easy to see and roll back server versions that way.
But remember a lot of their client apps are just a launcher and they download the client every time you open it. Eventually they can force you to upgrade.
could you explain that like I'm five? all I can find on APK mirror is bundles of the older versions
the server is what you need to roll back. The part that runs on a big computer.
apk is the client on your phone. It's probably fine at a newer version.
Are you logging into someone else's server?
no, this is all my own. it sounds like switching to jellyfin is just going to be easier. every update makes Plex worse
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