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Plex has paywalled my server! (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
submitted 1 day ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I tried testing a movie from my home server in plex through firefox and repeatedly got this message, even after reloading.

I knew that they had paywalled the apps on mobile and streaming from outside the network but now they have also blocked watching your own movies through your own hardware.

I do get the point that making software should be able to sustain people but I dont see the move of plex as a fair thing to do. Yes, they have made great software but taking your home server hostage feels like the wrong move.

Even a pop up that says "we need you to donate please" would have been fine. make it pop up before every movie, play donation ads before any movie but straight up disabling the app is kinda cruel.

Anyway, i have switched to jellyfin and it is insanely good. please give it a try. you can run it alongside plex with not issues (at least i had none) and compare the two.

In any case, good luck. Let me know if you need help.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 88 points 20 hours ago (16 children)

Every non-Free Software will betray you eventually. It's only a matter of time.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 149 points 1 day ago (42 children)

Jellyfin is great, but in defense of Plex, they announced that remote streaming would require one of the two parties to have a Plex pass was coming back in March so I don't know if it's fair to say they are holding anything hostage.

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 44 points 20 hours ago (24 children)

In this thread:

  1. An OP that doesn’t understand how their network is working
  2. People rushing to suggest a solution that they fawn over because it’s open source. I have yet to see anyone recommend Emby.
  3. “Tailscale will solve all your problems!” Great - how do I make that work on an LG TV that’s 100 miles away?
[–] tabular@lemmy.world 48 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (19 children)
  1. Open source has high immunity to devs making changes at the expense of user for their benefit because anti-features can be removed. Recommending another proprietary alternative here would be like saying they aught to leave an abusive partner but then recommend someone with the same red flags.
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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 20 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

3 - An OpenWRT router with Wireguard connecting to another router 1000 miles away will do the trick.

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

For #3, subnet routing.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Where do I find Wireguard for my LG TV?

You can’t expect my relatives living 100+ miles away to start monkeying around with their router. That be like asking you to set the spark plug timing correctly using a timing gun.

[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Did you even read the link? You don't need it on every device. It's not really that difficult to understand.

I AM A 48 YEAR OLD FORMER FUCKING TRUCK DRIVER FOR FUCKS SAKE, and yet, I still managed to set up tailscale on my phone and a computer, and then access my stuff that ISNT running tailscale in any way, shape or form, from my phone, simply because I decided to figure it the fuck out.

Stop being so damned lazy.

I am so fucking tired of this "cater to the lowest common denominator" bullshit.

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[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 32 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Why anyone still uses Plex for new setups is beyond me.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Well, i didnt. Its a legacy install and i had jellyfin already running parallel because of the remote streaming paywall they introduced.

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[–] psychadlligoat@piefed.social 36 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (5 children)

Someone else already said it and you've already swapped but I'll say it in detail:

when setting the server connection up you selected "ServerName (long string of numbers)" and not "ServerName (your IP - SECURE)"

this routes your connection through the Plex servers and makes it not a local connection anymore. this is extremely easy to do and forget you've done because it barely impacts performance

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

Are you saying that you’re on your home network with your Plex server and it won’t let you play your media without paying? That’s not true if so. You must be outside the network.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

My guess is they have VLANs and they didn’t set up the server to treat them as local traffic.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've had that happen to me with plex, it was probably 100% my fault because I specifically changed things during the setup of the docker file, but apparently Plex can't figure out that is local if it's running inside docker with non-host network, it probably only accepts local connections from the docker network, and I was never able to make it treat my actual home network as local.

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (5 children)

Under Settings > Network there is a configuration item exactly for this. I'm running host network, but you can add the docker networks here as well.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I don't have that configuration:

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