Getting Plex to work in Essex

[elliottmarter]

Has anyone else successfully done this?

 

I use plex at home and love it, we are looking to set it up in a school but it just falls over hard. for example opening up the web dashboard on the server itself and it says it cannot see any servers.

 

I can only assume this is because the discovery service is blocked through Essex or something?

 

Can someone confirm/deny that this is the case? has anyone else done it in an Essex school and did you have to get stuff unblocked or not?

[Domino]

What's your use case for Plex?

[elliottmarter]

Playing assembly music from whatever device gets brought in to do assembly with

[LeMarchand]

Playing assembly music from whatever device gets brought in to do assembly with

 

Where is the Plex server?

[elliottmarter]

Physically in the school? I was testing it in the library. What's the relevance? From a networking perspective it will be behind the Essex's firewall. Just looking for someone else who has done this and what they had request Essex to allow.

[LeMarchand]

Physically in the school? I was testing it in the library. What's the relevance? From a networking perspective it will be behind the Essex's firewall. Just looking for someone else who has done this and what they had request Essex to allow.

 

Just turned mine off (home server) and heading to bed, but I suspect you should be able to give your server a static IP address and point the clients at that. If all the traffic is on your LAN it shouldn't hit the LEA firewall.

 

P.S. Not sure what the licensing is for using PLEX in an EDU environment or storing assembly music on any sort of server, so I'd check that.

[XiJ]

I think Plex registers with the Plex servers using your login so might need some external access. I can’t remember if you can bypass this feature - I was setting mine up in a cloud server so wasn’t an issue.

[LeMarchand]

Just had a look at the player on my main PC and you can set manual servers by IP. Might be worth a go.