Are you runnin multiple subnets? If so you need to enable them all as local nets in plex or else it’ll trigger this.

I got fed up one day with Plex because it blocked me from getting to my server from one of my televisions. My LAN's internet gateway was down and Plex was useless even though all the content was on the local network. I'm sure there's configuration things or something that I could have changed but in the end I decided I didn't want to be pressured into buying anything and I didn't like the constant commercialization of Plex.

So I installed Jellyfin and never looked back. Yes, it's missing a few features but you can get around that with nginx so totally worth it not to be harassed.

For my media consumption, I use jellyfin for streaming thing. Like music and movies to mobile or laptop.

I use OSMC on a pi4 for TV viewing, it's a kodo remix but I like it. Have the media from jellyfin mounted over NFS and in kodo directly.

I did run tvheadend for live TV, but we don't watch any live TV now as the kids get TV priority. I also had tvheadend setup in jellyfin so I could watch TV out and about

Jellyfin.

That is all.

Had the same Problem and needed to use the htcp client to make it go away.

Honestly, I lowkey hated plex when I was using it. We never used it because it wasn't very good at the one thing it was supposed to be fore.

It was trying so hard to get me to use their media, when what I wanted was to watch my media. By contrast, jellyfin just shows me my media.

If you have a few bucks, the chromecast with android TV is what I'd recommend. The jellyfin app for android TV looks and works great -- as good as any paid streaming service imo. I got my wife using it daily, and she's not a tech person at all.

its pretty fucking easy to use jellyfin on any device after you have it set up. most platforms have it in their app store.

I don't have the link(s) on hand but there's a Tizen build of Jellyfin for Samsung TVs. It runs rather slow on my old tube so I wouldn't recommend it outside of a last resort. It's actually smoother for me to just open the app on the TV and then remote control it from a browser/app on another device (my Steam Deck is my homelab universal remote). But you can use the Tizen dev tools or a simpler docker container to push it to the TV.

For my folks I got a cheap Walmart brand Android box (Onn 4k Plus). I installed Jellyfin from the app store then black hole'd the thing because I'm wary of cheap Android apps and their history of supply chain attacks. It's much more responsive and also leaves me with the option of installing additional stuff like Smart Tubes, Retro Arch and whatnot.

I used Plex about 12 years ago. The first time my internet went down, and I couldn't use it, I stopped using it. Garbage. Not what I wanted.

I used Windows Media Center as long as I could, I loved it. But, eventually, I had to leave Windows 8 behind. Now I use Jellyfin and SABnzbd, it works okay most of the time, but I don't serve media to the outside, so I don't know if it works for that.

Or you could properly configure your server to recognise local ips

Aaaand that’s one of the reasons why I got rid of Plex. “Bought” it, then they found some other feature to paywall. Bought that, then another feature. Then it stopped playing files of certain extensions through chromecast. Fuck that. Put together Jellyfin and moved my collection over. Zero trouble since.