Run two separate Plex Media Servers

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weelzSA

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Hi,

I currently have two Plex Media Servers running - the main one in the lounge that stores 99% of the content and a second one in my daughters room which I recently setup to only store their "age appropriate" movies.

My problem is when I luanch the Plex Home Theatre app on my daughters PC, they have access to the other main server. Is there anyway to only show the one server or block the main lounge server from showing up on my daughters PC?

I have gone through the settings but can't seem to find anything that works.

The main server in the lounge gives the content to a Roku, TV in room and iPad/iPhone so I would like that to still be working but just not to the PC in my daughters room.

Any help will be great.
 
Put you daughter's on a separate network?

Or pay for plex pass.
 
bwana said:
Put you daughter's on a separate network?

Or pay for plex pass.
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What do you mean a separate network? We are in the same house.

I don't see any need for Plex Pass - I use to use it monthly but haven't missed it since cancelling it.

Surely there must be another way tho? The PC in my daughters room has all the media stored on a second drive in the same PC that has has Plex Media Server running.

Maybe if there is no way, then might have to install Kodi - surely that will not then load the main Plex Media Server in the lounge? Installing Kodi will be the last resort.
 
uhm IIRC, there is an age restriction option in Plex.
 
Create a second SSID on your router and have your daughters PC and Plex connect to the separate IP address?
 
CamiKaze said:
uhm IIRC, there is an age restriction option in Plex.
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I will look for that but not sure how exactly that will help?

All I want to do is have Plex Home Theatre that is running in my daughters room not search for other Plex Servers on my network. I have tried enabling the "manually specify server" option and entered the IP address and it worked but after a restart it no longer works.

Surely there must be a simpler way.

If not will just install Kodi and try that.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Create a second SSID on your router and have your daughters PC and Plex connect to the separate IP address?
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Will this way still be able to connect to Netflix? Unotelly is setup on my router itself?

It might just be easier to install Kodi for the PC in their room.
 
Plex Pass offers you the user management option and then you could get away with using a single media server with limited access on that user.

A much more effective solution.


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You could possibly get away with using two completely seperate Plex user accounts, one per server and then it should only auto sign in on the server that has been configured with that user account.
 
weelzSA said:
Will this way still be able to connect to Netflix? Unotelly is setup on my router itself?

It might just be easier to install Kodi for the PC in their room.
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You will just have two different networks for example wifi main and wifi guest with different IP ranges, let's say 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1 which won't be able to see each other.

So main Plex connects to wifi main and your daughters Plex to guest. The DNS stuff will remain the same.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Plex Pass offers you the user management option and then you could get away with using a single media server with limited access on that user.

A much more effective solution.
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Ive decided just to install Kodi on the PC in their room and then not worry about them watching something they shouldn't. They usually just watch Netflix on the main TV in the lounge so not worried about Plex there. Only worried about the Tv in their room so installing Kodi will sort that problem. The media in their room is only for the times Netflix / our internet decides it wants to take a break.
 
Soul Assassin said:
You will just have two different networks for example wifi main and wifi guest with different IP ranges, let's say 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1 which won't be able to see each other.

So main Plex connects to wifi main and your daughters Plex to guest. The DNS stuff will remain the same.
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Ahhh OK I understand now.

Let me try that tonight and if it doesn't work or I can't get it to work, will always have Kodi as backup solution.
 
You can also just create a plex account for her and then just share that particular folder with the "age appropriate" content on?
 
weelzSA said:
Ive decided just to install Kodi on the PC in their room and then not worry about them watching something they shouldn't. They usually just watch Netflix on the main TV in the lounge so not worried about Plex there. Only worried about the Tv in their room so installing Kodi will sort that problem. The media in their room is only for the times Netflix / our internet decides it wants to take a break.
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I'm not sure about this, but make sure DLNA broadcasting is disabled in plex, otherwise your daughters KODI client will see it.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Plex Pass offers you the user management option and then you could get away with using a single media server with limited access on that user.

A much more effective solution.


*****

You could possibly get away with using two completely seperate Plex user accounts, one per server and then it should only auto sign in on the server that has been configured with that user account.
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This is the first thing I did creating two separate accounts but didn't help.
 
I just ended up installing Kodi on their PC in the room. It was the simplest way around as they only use that PC in their room to watch local content when they can't access Netflix so for now it will work.
 
adam_g said:
You can also just create a plex account for her and then just share that particular folder with the "age appropriate" content on?
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That wouldn't work as I have two folders:

Movies: with all the movies

New Movies: all new movies which must still be watched.

For my daughters room, I just added all the movies their age into one folder but have sorted it out now.
 
/waits for Zoidberg... taking longer than usual as the word "Plex" on this forum usually triggers his 6th sense.
 
CamiKaze said:
/waits for Zoidberg... taking longer than usual as the word "Plex" on this forum usually triggers his 6th sense.
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Haha...

I swear by Plex and only reason I went for Kodi is it was the easiest route to get the PC in my daughters room not to show all the content. The rest of my house will still rely solely on Plex - that won't change :D
 
weelzSA said:
That wouldn't work as I have two folders:

Movies: with all the movies

New Movies: all new movies which must still be watched.

For my daughters room, I just added all the movies their age into one folder but have sorted it out now.
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Cool
 
adam_g said:
Cool
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I know it probably not the best way to do it (I have movies from 2012 that are still under the "new movies" folder as I haven't watched them yet) but it works for my household so for now it will stay like that :wtf:
 
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