![]() First and foremost, you need a Plex Media Server up and running. To follow along with this tutorial, you only need a few things. Related: How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device) ![]() Barring that, however, sharing your personal library is a fun way to share your favorite media with friends. If you already have a hard enough time accessing your own Plex Media Center while you're away from home due to a slow upload connection, then sharing the same connection with one or more friends will just lead to frustration. Now instead of conversations like "Oh man, have you seen XYZ show? It's the best sci-fi I've seen in ages." and then explaining what channel to watch it on and when, you can just tell your friend to check out the new show on your media server and tell you what they think.īefore we dive into the tutorial, however, there is one situation where sharing your Plex Media Server is a poor fit: if you're stuck with a cruddy, low speed connection at home. With very little effort, you can configure your Plex Media Server to share content with your friends (and your friends can, in turn, share their content with you using this same tutorial). It's a shame to not share that kind of content with your friends when Plex Media Server makes it so easy to do so. Or the fork - which works.If you're anything like us, you've probably spent a lot of time building up your media center and carefully curating movies and shows you really love, complete with carefully picked fanart to go with it. The persons that don't, they use the features in Netflix and Amazon. "Watch together" is still wanted by persons who host their own content. Maybe make the vote public to grab results from persons that are not registered? I dunno.Īnyways. Maybe if we get another vote going we'd have a better idea now. think said it's a feature they're interested in. Rather than create 5 accounts, you generate 5 temp links that would grant access to the watch session. You have 5 friends (for example) that want to watch. A one-time generated link that can be sent to friends. Here's a suggestion to add to the "watch together" feature that I'm unaware of anywhere else having. I wouldn't say drop all other development for it, but maybe have something where community programmers can assist? Throw ideas together?ĬOVID protocols are more relaxed in my country now, but I still have friends and family that I'd watch with. What I'd like to see is better or further development instead of what's already there. ![]() But it would make watching things easier. I much rather Emby - and as was said - there may be lots of persons that don't participate who would want it. Been waiting since it first was available on Plex. Until the feature gets implemented, I move any "watch together" content to that server and use it. Think I've stated here or in another thread that there's a fork which I use on one of 4 media servers. In summary, for the real basics, most of the functionality is already available - but for bells and whistles, lobbys, permisions (who can pause etc) etc - then this will need more development. I run an API to force all the logged on clients (sessions) of my choosing to show the same 'Film' (the same view as if they all selected the film manually) - API = /Sessions//Message Grab the session Id's of all logged on users - API = /Sessionsġ. The concept of getting a simultaneous playback from the same emby server I got working as a proof of concept in 15 minutes via the API. ![]() Crude, but certainly possible with the minimum of effort tbh. They just need to wait until it's kicked off. I guess all 'organising' needs to be done externally anyway - the only real 'lobby' would be the agreed film - the Admin can automatically take them to this page anyway. ![]()
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