Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

  • sasquash@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8·
    13 hours ago

    any recommendations to get it to work remotely? the good thing about plex was it was easy to set up, but the quality was medicore.

      • gdog05@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        13 hours ago

        I used a Cloudflare tunnel for security (no open ports) but that’s for people with limited tech ability mostly. Everyone else I’ve got connected with a tailscale node.

        • Grunt4019@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          12 hours ago

          Careful with that I think it’s against their TOS to do that due to the large volumes of data video streaming takes.

        • jayb151@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          I’m in the process of moving houses at the moment. But I’ve already got a nice PC put together to host a mess of services. Should be “fun” LOL

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        That works but is pretty insecure as you have nothing protecting your server outside of a basic password.