I played around with the PLEX "app" the other day, I downloaded it from the Ubuntu Software Center, and a PLEX app onto my Roku. I had a movie file that I placed in a designated folder and could easily watch it on the TV through Roku. I seems like a very slick (works well, easy to use) system. My question to you all is, can anyone tell me about the privacy factors? Looking on line gives me conflicting information. Does running PLEX on my PC give that company potential access to anything on my PC? Ron
The server can ping databases to get cover art and synopses for your movies, but I'm pretty sure you can turn that off. I don't have a definitive answer, but I think that's the extent of access to files on your PC. On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:58 AM hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I played around with the PLEX "app" the other day, I downloaded it from the Ubuntu Software Center, and a PLEX app onto my Roku. I had a movie file that I placed in a designated folder and could easily watch it on the TV through Roku. I seems like a very slick (works well, easy to use) system.
My question to you all is, can anyone tell me about the privacy factors? Looking on line gives me conflicting information. Does running PLEX on my PC give that company potential access to anything on my PC?
Ron
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thanks, Rich: another thing, I can get it to run fine, but can't figure out how to 'properly' shut it off ...on line descriptions of how to do it do not match what I see here On 1/3/21 10:06 AM, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote:
The server can ping databases to get cover art and synopses for your movies, but I'm pretty sure you can turn that off. I don't have a definitive answer, but I think that's the extent of access to files on your PC.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:58 AM hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org <mailto:wlug@lists.wlug.org>> wrote:
I played around with the PLEX "app" the other day, I downloaded it from the Ubuntu Software Center, and a PLEX app onto my Roku. I had a movie file that I placed in a designated folder and could easily watch it on the TV through Roku. I seems like a very slick (works well, easy to use) system.
My question to you all is, can anyone tell me about the privacy factors? Looking on line gives me conflicting information. Does running PLEX on my PC give that company potential access to anything on my PC?
Ron
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Assuming Plex server hasn’t changed too much, last I was using it on Linux killing it didn’t damage it at all. I believe it is still called “plexmediaserver” I’ll have to check in the web interface if there is a more proper way to shut it down.
On Jan 3, 2021, at 12:04, hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
thanks, Rich: another thing, I can get it to run fine, but can't figure out how to 'properly' shut it off ...on line descriptions of how to do it do not match what I see here
On 1/3/21 10:06 AM, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote:
The server can ping databases to get cover art and synopses for your movies, but I'm pretty sure you can turn that off. I don't have a definitive answer, but I think that's the extent of access to files on your PC.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:58 AM hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I played around with the PLEX "app" the other day, I downloaded it from the Ubuntu Software Center, and a PLEX app onto my Roku. I had a movie file that I placed in a designated folder and could easily watch it on the TV through Roku. I seems like a very slick (works well, easy to use) system.
My question to you all is, can anyone tell me about the privacy factors? Looking on line gives me conflicting information. Does running PLEX on my PC give that company potential access to anything on my PC?
Ron
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Yeah. I'm in Windows right now, but I think I run "service plexmediaserver restart" after installing an update, so "service plexmediaserver stop" would probably work. On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:10 PM Sebastian Courtney via WLUG < wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Assuming Plex server hasn’t changed too much, last I was using it on Linux killing it didn’t damage it at all.
I believe it is still called “plexmediaserver”
I’ll have to check in the web interface if there is a more proper way to shut it down.
On Jan 3, 2021, at 12:04, hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
thanks, Rich: another thing, I can get it to run fine, but can't figure out how to 'properly' shut it off ...on line descriptions of how to do it do not match what I see here On 1/3/21 10:06 AM, Richard Klein via WLUG wrote:
The server can ping databases to get cover art and synopses for your movies, but I'm pretty sure you can turn that off. I don't have a definitive answer, but I think that's the extent of access to files on your PC.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:58 AM hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I played around with the PLEX "app" the other day, I downloaded it from the Ubuntu Software Center, and a PLEX app onto my Roku. I had a movie file that I placed in a designated folder and could easily watch it on the TV through Roku. I seems like a very slick (works well, easy to use) system.
My question to you all is, can anyone tell me about the privacy factors? Looking on line gives me conflicting information. Does running PLEX on my PC give that company potential access to anything on my PC?
Ron
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Hi Ron, For your next media center build check out the Jellyfin. It's free software (community focused) and has privacy baked in. https://jellyfin.org/ Thanks, Joe On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:58 AM hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I played around with the PLEX "app" the other day, I downloaded it from the Ubuntu Software Center, and a PLEX app onto my Roku. I had a movie file that I placed in a designated folder and could easily watch it on the TV through Roku. I seems like a very slick (works well, easy to use) system.
My question to you all is, can anyone tell me about the privacy factors? Looking on line gives me conflicting information. Does running PLEX on my PC give that company potential access to anything on my PC?
Ron
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