Plex App Networking

[Techman_360]

Installed Plex on HexOS, got my media loaded, and the Plex install is associated with my Plex account, but the Plex instance is in a different network segment/address scheme them the rest of my local network, and my Plex mobile app can't connect to the Plex instance on HexOS. Did I miss something during setup? Trying to do this by the book and not dig into the TrueNAS scale side of things, but it seems like something is off with the install?

[Techman_360]

So Plex is on 172.16.X.X, and my home network is 192.168.X.X.
Looking around I can check 'use host network' in the Plex 'settings' within TrueNAS, but I'm curious if theres a better way to make this work, and why this doesnt work out of the box correctly? 

[TheCroShow]

Your post saved me a lot of heartache! i couldn't figure out why I couldn't play my movies in original quality when watching on my TV (living room or bedroom). I checked playback settings and saw it was capped at 2mbps for some reason. I checked the "use host network" thing in TrueNas (wheni it says recommended to leave that OFF) and voila, now I can watch my movies in original quality. it's much snappier, too!

[Djesse]

Thank you for this also solved my problem with not being able to direct play.

[Techman_360]

Is there a writeup or intention for how Plex is supposed to operate from the HexOS team that could speak to this issue? Is this setup intentional? Early Beta bug?

[Eric Michels]

Upvote, this fixed my issue!  
noting here as I had to find in a different thread, TrueNAS user name is "truenas_admin" and your set up password 

[ThoDC]

+1 this also fixed my issue