This introduced a couple of challenges, as Sonarr would need to be run using Mono (as it’s a. I didn’t want to just see if I could install Plex though I wanted to see if it would be possible to actually run a PMS instance along with Sonarr to download content automatically for shows I’m interested in.

This time around I wanted to see if I could take my old Moto X (2014) and use it as a Plex Media Server. I don’t want anyone on my network except me to have access to my Plex server, and this behaviour with VLC is concerning.This is possibly a solution to a problem no one other than me has, but once in a while I like to challenge myself to see if something ridiculous is possible. Why am I able to do this? Is it because I used my Google account to setup my Plex account? But then how would VLC know this? Both my Nexus 6 and OnePlus 5T are connected to the same Google account, and I don’t have any other device I could test this on and don’t feel like setting up a VM just to test it. However I can access the Plex server without any credentials. To access this share in VLC, I need to enter my username and password. The way I have my Plex server setup is that it is running from the OpenMediaVault Plex plugin, and the folder which Plex uses for all of my music and TV shows is taken from a password protected Samba share I have setup.

I can see why this would be useful, but I don’t want this behaviour for everyone on my network. VLC on both my OnePlus 5T (which has the Plex app installed) and my Nexus 6 can go into my Plex media server while connected to my home network, view the media inside it and stream this media.

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