Recently, some Plex users reported that they were facing a video playback error on NVIDIA Shield TV and Google Chromecast after the latest Android app update.Īnd as if that wasn’t enough to trouble Plex users, a new issue related to music playback on Amazon Echo devices has come to light. Plex is basically a client-server media player that runs on almost every platform and is available in more than 43 languages as of now. In the last couple of years, Plex has slowly transformed itself from just a digital media streaming server to a streaming platform that now offers more than 130 live channels for free. It is a solution for those who want to stream media without having to transfer files to their devices. If you own a vast collection of digital content that you want to enjoy anytime, then you must have heard of the popular media server streaming service Plex. Original story (published on October 20, 2021) follows: There is also this Microsoft article that explains how to change the time value for “drop idle connections” in Windows to keep a mapped network drive connection alive.New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. There is probably a way to create a trigger, like with Windows built in Task Schedule, to run at a set time to tickle the drive and keep the connection alive for Plex. More discusson on Plex and the WD My Cloud:Īs to your question about keeping the connection to the drive alive. Plex Western Digital NAS Supported Models See the following links for more information on NAS support in Plex: Plex is currently ONLY officially supported on the following WD My Cloud models: One may be able to install the Plex module to a WD My Cloud using version 3 firmware but it is not officially supported by Plex. The problem lies with the lower end processor used on the entry level WD My Cloud units, it is simply not powerful enough to run Plex effectively. The bottom line is that Plex is NOT officially supported on the lower end My Cloud units. If you use the search feature at the top of the page you’d see there are a number of threads discussing Plex, with a recent thread being a few days ago were a similar question to yours was discussed.
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