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

[mcnuggy]

+1 fixed my issue, had to spend a few hours debugging 

Noting a bit more details on where to change host network setting

TrueNas scale -> Apps tab on left column -> double press plex icon -> Edit on top right -> Network configuration on right filter -> Host Network checkbox 

[avan-5410]

On 12/10/2024 at 8:08 PM, Techman_360 said:

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? 

+1 This fixed my issue too!

I could not stream my movies over my local network, they would all go over the plex relay capped at 2mbps with horrible quality and buffering (verified by losing access to my library in the plex app when I turned the relay feature off in the plex network settings). I wasted so much time digging through the settings in my Apple TV app trying to see where I could give it my server's IP address directly.

Once I flipped this Host Network switch in the TruNas interface, my movies play without issue (presumably over my local network). Bonus, I also found the setting to take advantage of my server's GPU here as well:)

[jonspectacle]

holy cow, this post has taken a weight off my shoulders. It's unbelievable how this isn't checked by default... thank you so so much OP 🙏