Plex has confirmed that it will require a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass for remote streaming on its TV apps. The change is going into effect for the Roku app first, followed by all other TV apps and third-party clients in 2026.

Earlier this year, Plex increased its pricing for Plex Pass and stopped supporting all options for free remote streaming in the Plex apps, such as adding a custom server connection in the app settings. The company said at the time, "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." That's also when Plex introduced the Remote Watch Pass as a less expensive way to enable remote streaming again.

Plex is now rolling out the remote watch changes to its Roku TV app. If you have Plex Pass, or the owner of the server you're streaming from has Plex Pass, you don't need to do anything. Otherwise, if you are streaming on a different network from the server's home network, you need Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass.

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

gestures towards Jellyfin

This baby can fit so many free features!

[–] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago

Switched my users to Jellyfin this spring when Plex first announced this move, pretty seamless transition.

I actually prefer Jellyfin and it's UI compared to the new one Plex rolled out on Roku, what a mess that is to navigate now.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

I regret buying a Plex pass years ago when the project was still pretty good. I wanted to support the devs, but now I hope that they continue to develop this shit app so they don't move on to ruin things like Jellyfin.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Switched to Jellyfin after more than a decade with Plex. Prettey.. prettey.. pretty good.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup. Shame the new version is unusable for me. Hopefully they fix the bugs.

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[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I can recommend a local Wireguard server for this. I have one port on my router open for Wireguard and all of my devices can connect to it remotely.

Once connected, they can see all the devices on my local network, including my local jellyfin server. It works pretty painlessly and you don't need to open any jellyfin ports to the world.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 weeks ago

That's how it works with Tailscale as well. Tailscale creates Wireguard tunnels underneath between the different devices. There's also an open-source self-hostable Tailscale control plane.

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[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io -1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Love me some Jellyfin. I was yesterday days old when I finally read some documentation and learned that my metadata issues were because I was using a mixed library type for kids shoes and movies, and that they strongly discourage it because of the unreliable metadata it causes. Split kids movies and shows apart and now that works flawlessly, still, I feel like I’d prefer they could be combined on a single library for a kids’ browsing

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do you have a library of kiss's shoes?

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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fuuuuuck plex

For the past like 5-7 years I’ve said consistently that the second plex took VC money the writing was on the wall and that they would eventually and consistently take actions hostile towards their consumers and doing what they can to both move to SaaS and alienate lifetime pass users as well as distance themselves from their core purpose of sharing collections of pirated media hidden behind the thinly veneered “for tobacco use only” bullshit of “actually you can just rip your own physical media”

Every time I post, whether it’s banning the ability to serve on hetzner, putting ads all over the app and starting to collect data, increasing monetization, etc and talk about how it’s inherently going to continue getting worse plex users inevitably come out of the woodwork to be like “well this is overblown, plex is so good it’s worth getting fucked, jellyfin is slightly harder since it’s not backed by 40 million dollars of devil money that demands endless growth until the product is ruined”

As long as those people who are willing to get walked all over exist, that demand a slightly easier existence over one that serves them, every product and service will continue to get worse and worse while a small group of people get fat off of endless subscriptions

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[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net -1 points 3 weeks ago

Jellyfin. All day, every day

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 weeks ago

Jeeeeeeelifin, jellifin. jeeeeely jellifin...

[–] jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I always thought less of people whenever they mentioned plex.

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