I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out the solution to this and while I have mostly written up this post to help me remember how I got this working, I hope this helps someone else waste a little less time. There are two ways to go about this and both can be found in the Plex web apps settings section under Remote Access: Tell Plex your home internets upload. The solution was pretty easy too, I navigated over to Services -> DNS Resolver -> General Settings and scrolled down and clicked the “Show Custom Options” button, which displayed the Custom options entry where I added the following: server: I finally stumbled across a link to this plex support article that directly pointed the way on pfSense (which never showed up on my normal searches because it doesn’t have the word “indirect” anywhere). I thought it was all great then I noticed that when I accessed Plex from my local network it was showing up as indirect, which caused it to transcode everything like it was coming from the internet.Īfter too much time searching for things like “plex indirect pfsense” and trying solutions for similar problems the closest I got was a forum post indicating it was a DNS Rebinding issue with plex Secure Connections, but I didn’t know how to fix it. After saving and applying these changes and having plex recheck remote access it came up green with “Fully accessible outside your network”. I could have done a static port forward (and maybe I still will) but I figured UPnP also might be useful to make sure my XBox and Steam games didn’t have issues either. There I checked Enable UPnP & NAT-PMP, Allow UPnP Port Mapping, & Allow NAT-PMP Port Mapping. Plex will automatically adjust streams so they will. Go to Settings, and under Remote Access, enter your home internet speed. In the pfSense WebUI I navigated to Services -> UPnP & NAT-PMP. In the Plex Web App, you can set data limitations on outgoing streams. It didn’t take long to realize that pfSense had UPnP disabled by default. Not ideal, if I want to watch a movie from my collection while I’m traveling. Once I had it all done and configured I noticed that my plex server was reporting as unreachable to the outside world. At the same time I also replaced my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X with a custom pfSense router (primarily for better remote VPN and P2P VPN support). Remote access in Plex has been stable for months for me.I’ve recently built a custom FreeNAS file server in my house to act as high capacity storage for my personal photos & videos, a Plex Media Server, and an S3 server for offsite backup for my business and family, among a few other minor things. Set a port forwarding rule in my router for port 32400 to the local LAN IP address of my Plex server If you click on the here link, it’ll take you to the syncing queue where you’ll see a general overview of the transcoding and syncing processyou can click on the entry for a more detailed view if you wish or simply wait it out. Turned off UPnP in my router (I manually forward all ports I need as UPnP is not always reliable and has some security issues - not saying it is flaky in your router but turning it off in mine has been the right call)ģ. Setting up Plex to work with Amazon Echo Open Plex and select Settings in the top right of the main page. Plex will announce that the syncing process has started. Manually specified port 32400 (even though it is the default) in the Plex remote access setupĢ. Most servers on the internet are accessed through two standard ports: 80 for unencrypted HTTP traffic, and 443 for encrypted traffic, using HTTPS (the extra 'S' means 'Secure') and implimenting Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is immune to MITM attacks. I am not saying this will resolve your issue, but, I did the following to keep my remote access stable:ġ. Why You Should Access Plex Through a Domain Name With TLS. I've attached my server diagnostics as well. I can access it through a browser via a subdomain I have set up, and still access it via local.host:32400. When I retry, it will say that it's connected and available outside the network, and then around 10 seconds afterwards it'll go off again. UPnP is enabled on my router, and there is a rule in place for Plex, I just can't seem to figure it out. I've hit retry lots of times, I've manually set a port myself in the Plex UI, ensured manual port forwarding is correct on my router, reinstalled the docker (I use linuxserver version), reset my server, reset my router, reset the docker lots, tried all the troubleshooting methods on Plex's support pages. After investigation I find that in the Plex UI, it says that the server isn't available outside my network as per attached. Background is that I was trying to give my dad access to my plex library, only for him to tell me that it tells him it's unavailable.
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