Plex has confirmed that it will require a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass for remote streaming on its TV apps. The change is going into effect for the Roku app first, followed by all other TV apps and third-party clients in 2026.

Earlier this year, Plex increased its pricing for Plex Pass and stopped supporting all options for free remote streaming in the Plex apps, such as adding a custom server connection in the app settings. The company said at the time, "The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature." That's also when Plex introduced the Remote Watch Pass as a less expensive way to enable remote streaming again.

Plex is now rolling out the remote watch changes to its Roku TV app. If you have Plex Pass, or the owner of the server you're streaming from has Plex Pass, you don't need to do anything. Otherwise, if you are streaming on a different network from the server's home network, you need Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 hours ago

Jeeeeeeelifin, jellifin. jeeeeely jellifin...

[–] Asweet@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

I tried setting up Jellyfin a while ago, but ran into a lot of difficulties with TV show matching. Plex is a lot better at grabbing a pack of loosely organized files and understanding episode structure without renaming or moving files, which is great for continuing to seed files that are in the library.

I haven’t seen anyone discuss this, so maybe I’m doing something wrong? If not, this is the one major blocker that I have before rolling it out Jellyfin as an alternative to the people I’ve shared my plex server with.

Really want that in place because the writing seems to be on the wall (in flashing neon) about the direction Plex is going

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

I ended up using tiny media manager to move and rename all of my files. Fixes that issue.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 3 points 8 hours ago

It took me awhile to figure out the correct setup to get Sonarr, qbittorrent, and Jellyfin all to play nicely together, but once you get it figured out, it transparently addresses the problems of folder structure and allowing you to keep seeding content.

I had the same issue as you, initially, where I had to do a ton of library maintenance in Jellyfin. But since using Sonarr to monitor and import media from torrents to a structured media library, Jellyfin has been pretty hands-off

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

I have the same problem. There is a Lemmy community for Jellyfin. Maybe we need to ask there. I run both right now. Plex and Jellyfin. I use Jellyfin whenever I can but still have plex for that issue

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I think it's a common practice to keep the original file in the torrent folder and create a hard link with proper naming in the media folder.

[–] cm0002@toast.ooo 2 points 7 hours ago

Well if you want to continue with torrents, use Sonarr configured to torrent and configure it to move files by linking instead of moving

But I would HIGHLY recommend you switch to usenet for your source. You do have to have one or a couple cheap (talking 9-20$ a YEAR) indexer subscriptions and a subscription to a usenet provider itself (7-30$/month) but it's SO much faster, easier and you don't need to worry about seeding.

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[–] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 29 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Switched my users to Jellyfin this spring when Plex first announced this move, pretty seamless transition.

I actually prefer Jellyfin and it's UI compared to the new one Plex rolled out on Roku, what a mess that is to navigate now.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I haven't looked in awhile, how was the process of migrating watch history or did you not bother?

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago

Here is one I was looking at https://github.com/wilmardo/migrate-plex-to-jellyfin

Didn't end up using it as I had an issue where I lost all my watch history.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

You probably could do it with trakt.
The plugin supports syncing watched history.

But you'd need to do it for every user individually.
(Not tested. But at the time had issues with weird watch status in my jellyfin and trakt seemed to be the reason)

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 79 points 18 hours ago (23 children)

Switched to Jellyfin after more than a decade with Plex. Prettey.. prettey.. pretty good.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Do you give friends and family access to your library? If so, how?

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 18 hours ago (36 children)

Oh fuck off, dipshits. You chose this route despite the community that built you.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago

They make more money off of FAST then they do self hosting own media. Of course they are going to care less and less about the self hosters.

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 39 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

Cue all the users with lifetime passes not seeing that this is slowly becoming a problem...

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I have a lifetime pass and stopped using it. I got my money's worth over the years. No regrets.

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 35 points 17 hours ago (19 children)

Abandoning streaming services only to become a serf of another commercial subscription service seems like such a bizarre move that I really don't understand how Plex users even exist.

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