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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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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

As was stated on the first post you made about this, it's a dns or nat reflection issue.

Plex sees you accessing it through your external IP address, and not through your lan IP.

I had a similar problem, and had to roll back some nat changes I made, and now it's working fine again.

Meanwhile, free remote streaming works fine if you have a proper VPN setup. I just tested it, and was able to stream to my phone, through the Plex app, over my tailscale VPN, and I do not have Plex pass on the server or on my phone...

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This sounds like a whole lot of convoluted bullshit to use Plex locally and "looking local" through VPN solutions when you could just roll a Jellyfin instance and do things a more straightforward way..

[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, but my wife and kid also use it, and they're not going to be happy if I change things.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 7 points 23 hours ago

I did not make a "first" or "second" post about this. This is it.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What about switching to Jellyfin?

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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Plex has pay walled FREE servers streaming to FREE clients only.

If you have a plex watch pass (for client) you're good and can stream from any server. If you have a plex pass (for server) any one can stream from your server. But you have to have one or the other.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

Yes. But it used to be free to watch remotely. It's 99% your own hardware doing everything. Their services get used for discovery, not as proxies for the connection itself, AFAIK.

You already had to pay them to allow transcoding with your own GPU, etc.

Right now it's still not too bad, but just watch, enshittification will affect paid users too. For one, I expect the lifetime pass to go away, and go away retroactively eventually.

[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And I just tested streaming from my free server to my free phone while said server is at my house, and my phone is with me at work.

Works fine over a VPN.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

Yep, VPN will allow you to be on the same local network, and they're only pay walling remote play.

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