Home Entertainment - Plex and NAS

[stek]

With an account presumably, and like I said you don't need one. I can't remember how I set up the Android app, but it must have found the server on the LAN. If you're just using a laptop with a browser then I would assume you either need to type the right URL for the server, or use the website and your account to find it.

Well ok, it was only for a short time I was internet less all I wanted was The Good Life on!

[VectraMan]

Well ok, it was only for a short time I was internet less all I wanted was The Good Life on!

There's something ironic about using modern technology to watch The Good Life.

Having said all that, I'll try it later on. Pull out the internet cable and see if it still works. You never know with these things.

[sal]

Mine did.

Think it authenticates you http://plex.tv that was for laptop in bed mind, can't remember for telly, wasnt without Internet fir long.

Just googled it does need internet but u can turn it off for local, but new devices can't use it or something, I know it was a pita with no internet

If you used the http:/plex.tv/ to connect to your server then of course it needs internet. But you can always use http://local_IP to connect to your server on the LAN without internet, even from the iOS app (can't comment for android but i guessit similar). Yes, the iOS app first goes to plex.tv, but you can manually configure a LAN IP and not need internet.

[stek]

If you used the http:/plex.tv/ to connect to your server then of course it needs internet. But you can always use http://local_IP to connect to your server on the LAN without internet, even from the iOS app (can't comment for android but i guessit similar). Yes, the iOS app first goes to plex.tv, but you can manually configure a LAN IP and not need internet.

Furry Muff then! I back down, just it fooking annoyed me at the time when I had other shiit to deal with, was a temporary house between two stressful moves! All we had was 3G internet provided by the AirBnb guy that lasted like 3 hours a month.....

[stek]

There's something ironic about using modern technology to watch The Good Life.

Having said all that, I'll try it later on. Pull out the internet cable and see if it still works. You never know with these things.

Thing is at bed time no matter how knackered I am I cant sleep, brain working on plan B, C all the way to Z, so I put some familar telly on on the lappy and I'm away in five mins!

Has to be classic familiar stuff, owt new or involved and the synapses are at it again....

[SueEllen]

Thing is at bed time no matter how knackered I am I cant sleep, brain working on plan B, C all the way to Z, so I put some familar telly on on the lappy and I'm away in five mins!

Has to be classic familiar stuff, owt new or involved and the synapses are at it again....

I find BBC Four documentaries put me to sleep particularly ones about travel. Oddly I've watched most them before in the day and have been fine.

However my new best sleep thing is that Grand Tour carp on Amazon.

[SimonMac]

Got Plex running on a few Amazon Fire sticks, My library is controlled by iTunes so everything is in either a \Movies\ or \Tv Shows\ folder, and iTunes handles everything almost perfectly (sometimes iTunes gives a show a track number so the actual files are 01 03 05 etc rather than 1,2,3, but this is easily fixed.

However something funky is happening with the TV Show "The Missing" episode 2 and 3 of season 1 are both being flagged in Plex as Episode 3, which has the ② denoting two files for that episode. If I drop in episode 2 only it still comes up as Episode 3, the file names are fixed in the file system but no matter what happens it still gets recognised as Episode 3

[Platypus]

Got Plex running on a few Amazon Fire sticks, My library is controlled by iTunes so everything is in either a \Movies\ or \Tv Shows\ folder, and iTunes handles everything almost perfectly (sometimes iTunes gives a show a track number so the actual files are 01 03 05 etc rather than 1,2,3, but this is easily fixed.

However something funky is happening with the TV Show "The Missing" episode 2 and 3 of season 1 are both being flagged in Plex as Episode 3, which has the ② denoting two files for that episode. If I drop in episode 2 only it still comes up as Episode 3, the file names are fixed in the file system but no matter what happens it still gets recognised as Episode 3

Have a look on line to see how plex decides which is which episode, and also file name conventions. Plex can be quite fussy.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/art...Based-TV-Shows

[SimonMac]

I've bought the Plex Pass so I can sync content from the server to my iPad for when I am out of coverage, works fine however there is an issue that when I watch something locally on the iPad it does not sync as watched back on the main server. Is this usual or is something not working?

[northernladuk]

i've bought the plex pass so i can sync content from the server to my ipad for when i am out of coverage, works fine however there is an issue that when i watch something locally on the ipad it does not sync as watched back on the main server. Is this usual or is something not working?

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