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by koheripbal 1402 days ago
This is not correct. I've tried the LAN no-login settings and it does not work for many devices (Roku/smart tv/phones). They also fail if you're not on the same subnet as Plex.

For this infuriating reason, moving off of Plex is on my to-do list.
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arrakeen 1401 days ago
yup--the weekend my internet went out was a real eye-opener and a number of things in my house got the axe including plex. i use kodi now and while its UX is nowhere near as good as plex, at least it works with a LAN-only connection
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smileybarry 1401 days ago
Oh definitely, once you connect it to an account it nearly refuses to work locally. I tried to set up a cloud-based Plex instance once and I connected it too early, breaking it because UPNP/port forwarding didn't work (yet) and local access was auto-disabled. Even enabled it only half-worked.
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jjcon 1397 days ago
Interesting - I don’t have any issues accessing my server without internet, the default for me seems to be run local and then via internet.
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_boffin_ 1401 days ago
I’m currently not logging in while using plex. Just providing that datapoint

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You can also do this: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-fo...

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jjeaff 1401 days ago
It is very client device dependent. And I found that when my internet went out, most devices would not work. But after several hours and some restarts it finally started working on some devices. I think this was because of some dns caching issues.
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colechristensen 1402 days ago
Are there alternatives with smart tv apps?
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0xC0ncord 1402 days ago
Jellyfin has an official app for Roku but I am not sure about other platforms like webOS.
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eljimmy 1402 days ago
It appears it does exist: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos
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Zhyl 1402 days ago
No app for webOS (although emby exists). You can, of course, use the Web player over your local network.
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MikusR 1401 days ago
Just released on Official store. https://jellyfin.org/posts/webos-july2022/
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Zhyl 1399 days ago
Wow, they literally released it a few days after I checked for it :D
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rudemaniac 1402 days ago
But full functionality on Roku is really lacking. They really have not put too much into the Roku client and made the Amazon client way better.
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yots 1402 days ago
Emby is close, it missed some video features last I checked but it may be good enough for you.
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