I tried testing a movie from my home server in plex through firefox and repeatedly got this message, even after reloading.
I knew that they had paywalled the apps on mobile and streaming from outside the network but now they have also blocked watching your own movies through your own hardware.
I do get the point that making software should be able to sustain people but I dont see the move of plex as a fair thing to do. Yes, they have made great software but taking your home server hostage feels like the wrong move.
Even a pop up that says "we need you to donate please" would have been fine. make it pop up before every movie, play donation ads before any movie but straight up disabling the app is kinda cruel.
Anyway, i have switched to jellyfin and it is insanely good. please give it a try. you can run it alongside plex with not issues (at least i had none) and compare the two.
In any case, good luck. Let me know if you need help.
I access my stuff via VPN. As for sharing with others, I simply don't do that. VPN is still an option though. Or temporary client whitelisting, etc.
Yeaaah ! Most people anyway have some kind of VPN installed on their device... Just slap in a wireguard VPN config to tunnel your traffic home... bOOm jellyfin everywhere and 99% secure !
Now that's an interesting thought.
A web page with Authelia, login and a firewall.
If you're not logged in, All you get is a login page. If you are logged in, It passes you straight through to jellyfin.
So any device and client would be able to access it without issue once a phone or computer on the network had logged in just once.
The web page modifies the HA proxy ACL and forces a reload.
This will work fine over the web, but won’t work with clients.
They have instructions on jellyfin forums on setting up HAProxy, that part totally works.
But you don't put 2FA on the jellyfin server, for that you just deny all IPs except whitelisted.
You did the 2FA on the whitelister only using path-based routing.
You don't have access to the root site, you go to a path and login to a separate database to whitelist yourself then your client should work from that IP.
They have instructions on jellyfin forums on setting up HAProxy, that part totally works.
But you don’t put 2FA on the jellyfin server, for that you just deny all IPs except whitelisted.
You did the 2FA on the whitelister only using path-based routing.
You don’t have access to the root site, you go to a path and login to a separate database to whitelist yourself then your client should work from that IP.
edit:
I just tried it, it appears to work so far.
I can send websocket traffic inbound to 8096: to the JF server and it loads on web, Android and Roku clients with an ACL limiter on originating ips. and send 8096/whitelist to another server altogether with no ACL limits.
On that process, I'd load nginx, authelia, fail2ban and what flask? Surely someone has a python longin/admin framework that I could hijack for this. Then have that app reack over in shared container storage to twiddle the haproxy config to add some ip's and reload it?
I wonder if I could do something to the haproxy side to detect non-use of an IP and remove it.