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Hellowlol / bw_plex

binge watching for plex
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Do you plan to add support for remote clients? #16

Closed gylli251 closed 6 years ago

gylli251 commented 6 years ago

Do you plan to add support for remote clients?

Hellowlol commented 6 years ago

I don’t think that is possible, not unless the ports to the clients are open on the firewall they are using. SyncLounge cheats by controlling the client from within the local network. I think you can run bw_plex on your local network even if the server is remote.

gylli251 commented 6 years ago

Might the solution be in adding at as plex plugin or google chrome plugin ?

Hellowlol commented 6 years ago

Plex plugin is not gonna happen as the plugin system is way to restricted.

Chrome plugin is out of the question as my js is shit. It would also require web server inside bw_plex. I might revisit the webserver part if a api is added. Are you using plex cloud or running this on a vps? If so install bw_plex inside your local network.

gylli251 commented 6 years ago

Most of my users are not on my network. That's why I want remote as a feature. Would the solution be using a Webserver?

Hellowlol commented 6 years ago

Not really, the problem is to reach the clients. You users would have to have a webserver that could receive a command and relay that to a client.

Hellowlol commented 6 years ago

Closing this as we cant control remote clients atm.