Some of the featuresĪre also restricted to Plex Pass subscribers, though a lot are free, and more To make the most of it you need a server which will storeĪll your personal media, and this then serves all the clients. There have been regular updates to the service over the years expanding the functionality with some of the newer features including the ability to watch and record live TV, stream news from various free to air services, subscribe to podcasts and stream music from Tidal. I am sure you have heard of Plex and know all about its features, but if you haven’t then it is one of the most comprehensive solutions to organise and stream your personal collection of movies, TV, music, and photos. While this may not be the perfect Plex set-up, it is convenient for a lot of users, being smaller, cheaper and quieter than NAS or server solutions.
Providing access from a server to all the streaming devices in the home.Ī while ago Plex released an update that allowed you to run the Plex Server on your Shield directly.
Like most users, I use it to manage my locally stored media, I can only do that directly on the Nvidia Shield, not from a remote pc.I have talked about Plex a few times over the years, it is a fantastic application, and I have one of the lifetime licences to make the most out of it. I need to select something like a recent part viewed movie to “wake up” the server. The Plex app is working but the Plex server part of it is off. Selecting the Plex app will only show the news feed and none of my libraries. If I go to the tv which is attached directly to the Nvidia Shield, the Shield is on and working. The inevitable message when trying to access the Plex server after it has “gone to sleep” is “The server Shield Android TV is unavailable”. I have even tried setting Plex to scan library every 2 hours as an attempt to keep it alive. I have tried making all appropriate settings to the Nvidia Shield setup to stop that sleeping and also to the Plex server. Once “woken up” again, everything is back to normal. To activate Plex I have to go to the tv which is directly attached to the Nvidia Shield and access Plex from there. The problem is that after a few hours not being used, the Plex server goes to sleep and cannot be woken up by an external device such as a pc on the same network. I have a new Nvidia Shield running primarily as a Plex server (“Shield Android TV”) with all updates.
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