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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 1 year ago by Sl00k@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, welcome to the easy, fast, cheap conundrum.

If you're willing to do a bit of learning and asking the community for help if you get a little stuck, you've got a free solution, if not, which is perfectly okay mind you, then Plex is your solution and you have to decide how much you're willing to pay.

And honestly, of you're going down the home media route with friend and family, you're going to want to set up sonarr, radarr, ombi, transmission with VPN anyways.

[–] deeferg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm going to be going the free solution route, been trying to find a cheap laptop to turn into my server right now. Do you mind if I reach out about it or do you know of any good instances?

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I have a docker compose yaml script you can baseline of off and help walk you through with my lessons learned.