Īlternatively, she'll just have to buy something like an Amazon 'Fire Stick' or Fire TV Stick' with Plex media player already installed and use that with her Samsung TV.

if she and the caravan management company let me. I suspect I'm going to end up removing my friend's TV from the wall, drive it 60 miles away to add Plex (with VLC as backup) then drive it back again and stick it back up on the wall again.

(Plus VLC - whilst it works well - doesn't display the media metada like Plex.) but, of course, you need the VLC app installed on your TV. If Plex media player front end can't or won't pick up Plex media server back end locally then you can use VLC's 'local network' option to locate the Plex media player back end using DNLA and cast to the VLC app instead (works well for her grandkids' iOS and Android devices). I've done it, it's easy and it works great! If you make a minor change within Plex media server (in the network settings area) then Plex media player will just look automatically for the Plex media server backend within your local ip subnet without you being signed in to Plex. no internet needed, not even to display the media metadata which is also stored locally.

All further Plex casting is purely local. film trailers, plots, episode guides, cast, etc.Īctually you only need the internet for downloading the Plex app then Plex account authentication.

but you only see filenames of course, not the metadata that makes Plex such a pleasure to use, i.e. or, even easier still, just use 'Cast to Device' using WiFi Direct from File Manager's context menu on her laptop which also works well. Yes, she could use a USB mass storage device.

Plex samsung tv server not available