I tried testing a movie from my home server in plex through firefox and repeatedly got this message, even after reloading.

I knew that they had paywalled the apps on mobile and streaming from outside the network but now they have also blocked watching your own movies through your own hardware.

I do get the point that making software should be able to sustain people but I dont see the move of plex as a fair thing to do. Yes, they have made great software but taking your home server hostage feels like the wrong move.

Even a pop up that says “we need you to donate please” would have been fine. make it pop up before every movie, play donation ads before any movie but straight up disabling the app is kinda cruel.

Anyway, i have switched to jellyfin and it is insanely good. please give it a try. you can run it alongside plex with not issues (at least i had none) and compare the two.

In any case, good luck. Let me know if you need help.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    I just put it behind an HAProxy a few minutes ago, It appears to be fine. You just need something capable enough to handle web sockets. I’ve made it all the way through an episode of The real monsters without any problems.

    Again, you’re not going to be able to 2FA it that way, what I’m looking at doing is IP whitelisting it in HAProxy using a small web helper that is 2FA, accessed via the same port but on a separate path.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        56 minutes ago

        Yeah part of doing this is keeping a ci pipeline up and unit testing against rcs and telling them exactly what’s failing. The report in that ticket gave them absolutely no choice but to try to set up an entire system to reproduce whatever the user did which they obviously don’t want to do.

        WebSocket relays are poorly implemented in a lot of proxies, Even cloudflare has its fair share of issues.

        The downside of using HA is reinventing the let’s encrypt pipeline for the 40th time, the upside is it’s dead simple, web sockets go in, web sockets go out, The logs are good, it’s easy to debug it with TCP dump If things start to get sketchy.