hauiPlex has paywalled my server!
FreedomAdvocateAre you saying that you’re on your home network with your Plex server and it won’t let you play your mode is without paying? That’s not true if so. You must be outside the network.
I’ve had that happen to me with plex, it was probably 100% my fault because I specifically changed things during the setup of the docker file, but apparently Plex can’t figure out that is local if it’s running inside docker with non-host network, it probably only accepts local connections from the docker network, and I was never able to make it treat my actual home network as local.
Under Settings > Network there is a setting for this.
LAN networks is only available for plex pass users
It all starts to make sense then. I need to set Jellyfin up soon. It’s only a matter of time before they come after the “Lifetime” purchasers like myself. I bought it over a decade ago at this point.
the actual problem here is that OPs network is not configured correctly and that Plex detects that the physical local client is actually accessing the server from a totally other network.
Fairly common when you use docker to run Plex and have the container run in bridge mode. This will put the container in the docker network that will then be different to your local network.
Plex determines if a stream is local or remote based on the network so when your container is in bridge mode, the physical local client will be a remote connection because of the different networks.
And since remote streaming requires Plex pass since end of April, you will see this.
Yup, that’s exactly the problem I have, it’s ridiculous that it doesn’t let me stream from a local network just because it thinks that it’s local network is only the docker one, it should be fairly simple for Plex to figure out it’s accessible via a direct connection and it doesn’t need to route through the Plex servers for this. But it won’t get fixed because it pushes people to pay, hell from what people are saying here the config to fix this is paywalled so they create a problem for which they sell you the solutions.