Plex really needs to do a Tailscale style connection to your server. But instead they chose to keep their outdated method of funneling all of their traffic through their servers, and need to charge lots of money in order to pay for it.
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Make sure your home server config isn’t mistaking this client as a remote user. Check your networking, etc
I had a plex pass and was still having tons of issues streaming to other devices such as Apple TV. So I switched everything over to jellyfin with news server and have everything scheduled through radarr and sonarr. Never going back.
Exposing Jellyfin/ plex through routing or SNAT plus dyndns would be a cheap option.
As soon as one rents a VPS (to expose the selfhosted at home service through routing/ tunneling) it would cost at least 2€/ month?
This is just some glitch. They’ve not said anything about watching stuff locally becoming a pay thing.
yet
I’ve never seen the appeal. A simple smb share and Kodi work perfectly fine no?
It's a fork of open source software. If only "line go up" didn't have to be the way things worked they could have stopped developing features no one wants just to squeeze out profit, and sustained without enshittifying. Maybe.