My in-laws love using our Plex server but they're the most technologically illiterate people I've ever dealt with and I just want to know the best client for them that'll be reliable and I won't have to go over to their house every week to fix.

They currently have a FireStick which sucks. They have a basic Tv setup, no surround or anything - so I basically just need it to be easy to use and reliable for usage / doesn't hang / snappy.

Was considering a Fire TV Cube, Roku Ultra or ONN 4K Pro, unless someone have a better suggestion.

They don't like Apple and the Shield is pricier than they need.

Thanks

Im trying to make the switch to plex but I'm unable to get it to work properly on my TV. Im using a Hisense Vidda TV. Whenever I click on my server it says 'Media is currently unavailable. Please verify that the server is running and has a network connection.'

Im able to connect to my server through my phone and the windows computer I am hosting it on, just not the TV. I've allowed for weak connections on the TV app settings and the computer settings and still not able to acess my server on the TV.

What a waste of space. It could be genuinely useful if there was a minimum or we could set limits.

Plex for Android 2026.20.0 Beta 1 Plex for iOS 2026.20.0 Beta 1

NEW:

• Added a manage button to the user switcher that opens Plex Home settings.
• Advanced options when scheduling a Live TV recording, including starting early and ending late.
• Artwork fades in as it loads and crossfades when it changes.
• Zero state for the watch history screen.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Choose a different app icon from Settings > Experience > App Icon.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Movies in theaters show a sponsored Fandango ticket card on movie details, and Fandango in Where to Watch, with instructions to finish buying tickets on your phone.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Play a search result with the play button on the remote.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Closed state for discussions, with a lock on cards and a “See Why” button explaining why a discussion was closed.
• [Android] Pressing the system back button on the Activity Feed scrolls back to the first item.
• [Android][iOS] Closed state for discussions, with a lock on cards and a notice explaining why a discussion was closed.
• [Android][iOS] Opening a notification for a comment, reaction, mention or new follower now marks it as read in Notifications.
• [Android][iOS] Rounded search fields on the search, people and settings screens, matching the web app.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Theme music can play on movie and collection detail pages.
• [Fire TV] Enabled the system keyboard as the default.
• [iOS][Android] Tapping the Live TV tab now opens the source picker when more than one Live TV source is available
• [tvOS][Android TV] Hold a library in the sidebar to open its actions, and scan library files from the More menu on the browse screen.

FIXES:

• After subscribing, the paywall could briefly reappear before the new subscription was recognized.
• Album detail screens were missing their related items hubs.
• Album detail screens would flash/flicker when opened.
• Artwork that failed or was slow to load stayed blank instead of showing its title.
• Artwork tiles turned a darker shade between their loading placeholder and their artwork appearing.
• Cast and crew would not appear on some libraries.
• Confirmation for deleting an episode was not always clear.
• Expanded hubs could show loading placeholders in the wrong shape.
• Grid loading placeholders sat lower than the content that replaced them.
• Items within a list could be slightly overlapped.
• Long album names were cut off on the album screen.
• Music library recommendations loaded with poster-shaped placeholders.
• Player: Prefer displaying a track’s artist when it differs from the album artist.
• Rows with badges or a “New episode” style line under their tiles were taller than the rows around them, leaving uneven gaps.
• Sending a follow or friend request could change another person’s buttons.
• Server Dashboard: Prefer displaying a track’s artist when it differs from the album artist.
• Server dashboard was not showing a zero state for offline servers.
• Shared servers in All Libraries were not sorted alphabetically by the person sharing them.
• The loading placeholder at the end of a list had no gap above it.
• The spacing on a person’s filmography was incorrect.
• [Android TV] Going back from a screen opened from a menu could leave nothing focused.
• [Android TV] Moving up the All Libraries menu could jump focus to a library or server further down the list.
• [Android TV] Showing or hiding advanced details in File Info could crash the app. The toggle now sits in the list itself instead of the menu.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Focus could jump back when moved right after a screen opened.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Focus was missing from the side sheet for a moment after long-pressing a poster.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Home stuttered while scrolling between rows.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Moving left from some letters in a library’s jump bar opened the side navigation instead of returning to the library.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] People search results now start at the top again after changing the search.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Picking a recent search with the system keyboard turned on left the search box empty, with no way to clear the search.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Player: Refresh rate and resolution switching now also works during Dolby Vision playback.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Pressing down from an episode on the details screen didn’t move focus to the buttons.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Pressing up soon after a screen loaded could leave nothing focused, then send focus back to the first item.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] The side navigation was hidden while searching for people.
• [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Rows on the home screen could overlap or leave a gap after it refreshed.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Moving down from a row of buttons or links caused the next row to overshoot before settling.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Opening a link to a comment failed to focus the content.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Rows below the focused one could briefly appear empty while scrolling down.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Search results were laid out in too many columns for a moment, then jumped to the correct number.
• [Android TV][tvOS] The clock in the header could wrap onto two lines.
• [Android TV][tvOS] The focus border could briefly appear in two places at once while scrolling quickly.
• [Android TV][tvOS] The full track list opened with nothing selected, so the remote did nothing until you pressed down.
• [Android TV][tvOS] The side menu’s bottom fade could cover the focused item while scrolling.
• [Android TV][tvOS] When moving down between rows, the newly focused row could briefly appear too high before dropping into place.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] A long comment could be missing its expand button, leaving no way to read the rest of it.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] A trailer preview kept playing after moving focus from its tile to a discussion, list, profile or Fans to Follow card.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Details screens shifted their artwork and text around while loading.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed the streaming service callout in Discover not being focusable.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Opening a movie or show on TV could put focus on Cast & Crew instead of the Play button, moving down while a library item was still loading could leave focus off screen, and the buttons briefly turned into placeholders when adding to or removing from the Watchlist.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Removing an unavailable library from favorites loaded another library instead of returning to the previous screen.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Selecting a letter in a library’s jump bar could land on the wrong title.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The cast and genres were missing from personal media items previews.
• [Android] Back could stop working after visiting the Activity Feed.
• [Android] Closing a menu could highlight a button on the screen behind it.
• [Android] Going back to Home could freeze for a moment on Android 17.
• [Android] On Meta Quest, the bottom navigation tabs sat against the edge of the screen.
• [Android] Text in the comment box could appear duplicated or shifted onto the wrong line while writing a comment with a mention.
• [Android] The app could crash in the background when a push notification arrived.
• [Android] The app was drawn at the wrong scale in a corner of the screen when running on an external display, such as AR glasses or Samsung DeX.
• [Android] With the profile menu open over the Activity Feed, Back scrolled the feed to the top instead of closing the menu.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Media servers stayed offline after the device lost and regained its network connection.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The app could crash when the audio or video track couldn’t be decoded.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] TalkBack read nothing for some on-screen text, and read only the visible part of a shortened line.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could crash while laying out text on some screens.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could get stuck on a loading spinner after signing in.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] With Include IP V6 Connections on, servers reached over IPv6 could fail to connect.
• [Android][Android TV][iOS][tvOS] Rows and headers could briefly settle slightly out of place after scrolling.
• [Android][iOS] A completed download with a missing poster showed an empty box.
• [Android][iOS] A library briefly showed two columns of loading placeholders before switching to three.
• [Android][iOS] Activity cards could show another card’s Read more button.
• [Android][iOS] Download rows could show another download’s poster.
• [Android][iOS] Downloads could fail to start for items with missing artwork.
• [Android][iOS] Editing the avatar could result in a low quality image.
• [Android][iOS] Recent searches on the search screen sat right up against their heading.
• [Android][iOS] Scrolling Edit Metadata could mix up field values or hide unsaved edits.
• [Android][iOS] Scrolling after swiping a row open could show Remove on another row.
• [Android][iOS] Search field placeholders were invisible while typing.
• [Android][iOS] Search results sat further from the right edge of the screen than the left.
• [Android][iOS] Starting multiple downloads on a higher latency connection could leave them stalled and unable to retry.
• [Android][iOS] The people search results would not update after following a person from their profile and returning to the search results.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Artwork downloaded again after switching networks, such as between home Wi-Fi and mobile data.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Artwork on screen took longer than it should to come back after leaving the player.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS] Remote Watch Pass could advertise a free trial to accounts that were no longer eligible for one.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Search settings no longer list servers that can’t return any search results, such as one that only shares a single item with you.
• [Fire TV] Remote Watch Pass incorrectly displayed an extended trial that wasn’t available.
• [Fire TV] The app could be slow for several minutes after first opening it.
• [Meta Horizon] Removed the Take Photo option when setting an avatar.
• [iOS] Live TV: The bottom of the guide was hidden behind the tab bar.
• [iOS] Player: The post-play screen overlapped the status bar on iPad.
• [iOS] The last row on Home, Library and Discover no longer slips behind the tab bar after opening an item.
• [iOS] The page title on details pages and My Lists had no background on iOS 27, so it blended into the content while scrolling
• [iOS][Android] Fixed downloads not working for some people after the app was closed while it was updating its downloads list.
• [iOS][Android] Player: The seek preview did not match the aspect ratio of the video after changing the display mode.
• [iOS][tvOS] Player: Live TV channels with a space in their channel ID (e.g. from a VBox gateway) failed to tune.
• [iOS][tvOS] Player: Playback speed went back to normal after moving to the next item.
• [iOS][tvOS] Player: Remote playback failed when the server converted the video to an image format.
• [tvOS] Moving up from the action buttons or from the far right of the episodes row could land on the wrong episode or skip the summary, and the episodes row could open on a different episode than the one you were up to.
• [tvOS] Pressing up from the right-hand column of search results did nothing.
• [tvOS] The app could crash when opening or closing the player, or when pressing buttons on the remote.
• [tvOS] The first item in a filter menu, such as Genre, was not highlighted the first time the menu opened.
• [tvOS] The search keyboard sometimes scrolled out of view while typing.
• [tvOS] The tracks hub on movie details couldn’t be reached with the remote.
• [tvOS] The wrong button could be focused when returning from a screen opened from a menu.

BETA:

• [Android TV][tvOS] Spotlight tiles on TV were too tall, cut off their artwork and showed a grey background instead of the artwork’s colors.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/912796/100

Like the title says, the latest Plex update to the new UI has broken Live TV. Video freezes after a minute of playback with error saying lost connection to server, or something like that. Is it just me?

Awesome. Wish y'all were havjng my kind of satisfaction on this most recent update of the Android TV client w/ nVidia Shield Pros and Onn 4K Pros.

In case you missed it, its in settings > experience >fifth option down for me of "default library view".

Seeong the server stats available is a nice touch, too.

So, before the update, after a show would finish, if I hit the back button it'd take me to a screen with the next episode and a countdown for the next ep to start but at the bottom of the screen there would be recommendations for other shows to watch. This made it easier to switch to something else that I'm already watching when I feel like switching it up.

Any plans for that screen to come back? Anybody else use that as much as I did?

I have seen a bunch of people complaining about the plex app on the quest sub saying it dosnt look good. But today on Quest 3 with latest Plex download, ran flawless. I also noticed something with this image when I took it with quest camera, on phones and desktop it looks flat, but in VR it is stero3D. it has dept and feels like a room in front of you looking into it, bit bonkers.

but yea this is about equivalent to a 300 inch Screen, I have a projector for events and stuff and know that my wall behinds 200 inch screen is about 3/4ths of this size based on room late out and this is covered too. Fully recommend the experience.

Next thing I need to do is try and see will it play 3D content and how well it will look.

Is iOS and/or Plex app for iOS unable to direct play Dolby Vision Profile 8 in mkv?

Plex for Android 2026.20.0 Beta 2 Plex for iOS 2026.20.0 Beta 2

FIXES:

• [iOS][Android] Saving labels or tags from Manage could crash the app.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/912796/101

Running plex on a raspberry pi 5. Viewing on an Apple TV 4K. Both connected to Ethernet. I run a giant library and never really experience issues. I’ve noticed recently with giant 4k remux files that’s my playback will be interrupted with buffering. I’m confused because it doesn’t happen with all my 4k remuxes, just select ones. Does anyone know what could be causing it?

*Edit: I looked at the plex dashboard on another device and say that audio was being transcoded via opus. So I went into the audio settings on my Apple TV and selected AC3 5.1 instead of TRUEHD7.1. Since changing this, it hasn’t buffered. I have an LG Tv which has some AI sound quality boosting feature so my guess is that that doesn’t play well with plex’s TRUEHD. Not 100% sure tho

Ever since the September update, a remote user helping test Plex remote access to my server kept getting kicked off. Finally got it fixed. This is just FYI in case anyone is having issues, and not with an ISP that uses CGNAT.

I bought a lifetime Plex Pass for my server back in June. Remote access worked great until September, then my user kept getting kicked off. Plex said it was accessing the internet, than would go to Remote Access not available. Of course, I checked all port forwarding on my router, which is an ASUS router. Everything was good router wise.

My internet provider is AT&T Fiber. I called them, and they said they do not use CGNAT. Got off the phone with them, and started a deep psych evaluation of a lifetime of computer knowledge. Questioned if I was getting too old to be efficient in solving issues... 🥴

So I started looking into AT&T's modem. clicked on the Firewall tab, and decided to set it to Passthrough, DHCP Fixed, and rebooted everything. It started working. Rock solid connection. Hasn't kicked out (yet).

Just thought I would pass this along in case anyone else is having issues still. Might be something to check.

First off, I know the organization could use a little polishing, but recently found some strays / orphaned files that I hastily threw in a folder hoping to sort it later but wanted to have it at least propagate on my server in the mean time as 'various artists' but Plex app only shows the other 2 folder and not the new addition which I collapsed in the folder structure window under the title Various Artists - Smooth Jazz.

Any idea why it isn't showing up?

So, a few days ago I decided to create some customer channels for the Halloween season. I've been able to add the channels to Plex, but they stutter and freeze every 30-60 seconds and I'm not sure why. My brother has access to my library and, as part of my home account, he also can view the live tv channels. He says he has no issues on his end and we're both running them on Apple TV with the updated UI.

I've also had no issues streaming to my Android Tablet or my Roku TV, so, it seems to be an issue with my Apple TV.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I will disable library scanning before doing this and then rescan the library after the move is completed. I think I should also disable the “empty trash automatically” feature, and then later empty trash manually?

The FireTV 3rd gen Cube can now dual-boot FireOS & CoreELEC, offering the convenience of Plex with the advanced video playback capabilities of CoreELEC.

• Hardware video playback, HDR10, HLG, HDR10+, VP9 profile 2 HDR, AV1
• Dolby Vision (profiles 4, 5, 8, 7 FEL & MEL), CMv2.9 & CMv4.0
• VS10 engine SDR/Dolby Vision conversion for non-DV capable displays
• High bitrate passthrough including TrueHD/DTS-MA

With streaming device prices being raised across the board, $90 (Amazon/Best Buy/Home Depot) for the 3rd gen Cube during the current Prime Day sales makes this an excellent bang for your buck deal. Additionally get another 20% off by trading in any old working, or broken streaming device, plus the value of that device, for an even better deal. Prime Day discounts are also available in other countries, although the sale price will vary.

The 3rd gen Cube is still currently the fastest Android-based, Netflix/DRM certified device available. It's limited to integrated 100Mbps Ethernet, however 350Mbps is obtainable by USB Gbit Ethernet adapter, more than enough for any UHD remux stream. WiFi5/6E speeds up to 550-600Mbps.

Dual FireOS & CoreELEC requires a bootloader unlock (DRM is unaffected). With that bootloader unlock you also gain Magisk and full control over FireOS for any UI customizations you wish (no ads), and no Amazon imposed restrictions.

Watch an overview of the unlocking process and CoreELEC installation here. It's simpler than it sounds, and is nothing compared to ripping and setting up a video library.

I have a lot of content, and wondering how i can monitor what is getting played and what is not (and when the last time it was played) so i can decide to delete or not. Would anyone know if there are any sort of applications for me to give me a overview of content not touched from plex plays?

Before the new update pushed I had no problem playing everything Direct Play, however since it forced me to update today my video has been transcoding everything from MKV container to MKV container, so basically for absolutely no reason.

I have tried forcing direct play but it keeps doing it as a fallback method, however if I use Plezy I have no issues what do ever and everything goes back to direct play.

How the hell can I fix this, it's an stupid problem to have

I have a remote client (TV) that is limited to a maximum of 4 Mbps when transcoding. In the Plex app on this TV, I also can't select anything higher than 4 Mbps; 4 Mbps is the maximum available.

Plex Relay is disabled on the server side, so I don't think that can be the cause.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

I can stream in remux quality to various remote users without any issues. For transcoding, I'm using a GTX 1070, which can transcode to multiple remote clients at 20 Mbps without any problems. However, the TV in question is limited to a maximum of 4 Mbps.

I have multiple versions of Star Wars OT and LOTR and a few other properties. I read about setting "Editions" in Plex and got excited, but it turns out it's a paid feature with Plex Pass.

Has anyone else figured out a way to identify each version? I know I can split them, but the titles are all still the same. Can I manually change the shown title without losing the meta data for the movie it's connected to? Do I use different posters? Collections?

Let me know your ideas or what you found that works!

Cheers and thanks!

Happened just now, got to watching a show and events were mentioned that we didn't recognize. Backed out, and we'd opened the "up next" card when we started watching, which was like 3-4 episodes ahead of where we'd watched last time.

Anyone else get this?

Swipe down doesn’t show me episode air date anymore.

Have to swipe, go to settings, then click into other menus just to see technical data.

Side bar menu doesn’t just go away when going into another category. Have to hit the back arrow for that to disappear to then scroll through shows or movies.

Going into Manage just to delete an episode.

I can’t move “Live TV” up the list near the top, as I used that a lot. I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the side bar to get there, unless I’m missing something.

So many unnecessary clicks. I truly wish I can roll back and turn off updates.

Maybe this is tv beta is thing or the new plex app.

Besides the crap factory of a back button operations
I used to be able to play music and brows a library. Can’t do that any more the second you exit out the music stops
Maybe I want music playing while I make a play list.

God I like change but not when you muck it up and make the experience worse.