Bhoot
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I will give you an awesome tip for plex. It's not an advertisement, just a discovery I wanted to share with others.
I discovered it recently and till now I was shuffling through the ip addresses of various servers of my family to access everything (I guess you're doing the same).
First and foremost add different users as friends (people with clients or servers). It sounds silly but well.. Most free things are. With each friend you can choose different folders you want to share (bonus imo). Now once you're added to each other's list login to http://plex.tv/ with your username and pw. On the top right corner there will be a tab marked "LAUNCH". You will be redirected to your plex homepage and can access your own server. On the top left there will be a dropdown menu of the list of accessible servers. You can choose to access all servers you can from one platform. Happy plexing.
It will even help people who don't want to access different servers and don't want anyone else using their server. Instead of entering the http://ip1.ip2.ip3.ip4:port/web you can login to the site and view your entire collection from browsers.
I would however never use it in my local network since the speeds/performance can drop. For local access I am still using 192.168.1.ip:port/web.
Please do share your experiences and help others.
thanks.
If the posts help you don't forget to click the Thanks. ;)
I discovered it recently and till now I was shuffling through the ip addresses of various servers of my family to access everything (I guess you're doing the same).
First and foremost add different users as friends (people with clients or servers). It sounds silly but well.. Most free things are. With each friend you can choose different folders you want to share (bonus imo). Now once you're added to each other's list login to http://plex.tv/ with your username and pw. On the top right corner there will be a tab marked "LAUNCH". You will be redirected to your plex homepage and can access your own server. On the top left there will be a dropdown menu of the list of accessible servers. You can choose to access all servers you can from one platform. Happy plexing.
It will even help people who don't want to access different servers and don't want anyone else using their server. Instead of entering the http://ip1.ip2.ip3.ip4:port/web you can login to the site and view your entire collection from browsers.
I would however never use it in my local network since the speeds/performance can drop. For local access I am still using 192.168.1.ip:port/web.
Please do share your experiences and help others.
thanks.
If the posts help you don't forget to click the Thanks. ;)