Plex Dash

I received and email this morning, “server in your pocket” I am intrigued. So I open the email, which I rate for me. I mainly read the titles and that is it, if the email is from a company. But who doesn’t want to install Plex server on their phone. So opened it with anticipation. Only to find that it was a server monitor and controller. Sad that it isn’t what I wanted but easier access into my Plex server would be helpful. And it does and I do like it for what it does but please someone make a Plex server version for iOS I will gladly buy a second phone to have a mobile server or better yet when my phone ages out I will use it for the mobile server.

I like the idea of having a way to monitor the server remotely. This app helps, but it’s got the potential to being a better app. Having the server graphs is very nice once you figure out how to find them. I like Varys because that’s a button right there, but that’s an enhancement request really. I hope to see better reporting in this app. Varys allows me to see down to who is playing what on what device. This app seems primitive to that feature. To be honest you can’t even manage home users or friends to the server from the app. When you view the server logs in the app, it infinitely loops the log and you have to crash the app to go back to the previous page. It makes it useless when it comes to troubleshooting issues. To be honest and I know this sounds dumb, but I’d just add this to the original Plex app for admins profiles. It’s sort of silly to have so many apps to do something so simple as this. I can almost see a need like plexamp, but even that app seems like it could be migrated to the original app too. I still use Varys to monitor my server and for a couple bucks I was able to unlock some great reporting features that are very handy actually. Keep up the hard work and I know this can be a much better app!

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I LOVE that we’re getting this and it all just worked on sign in, but I immediately missed the ability to set custom artwork via url and upload, grid view when viewing libraries, and most other admin functions like emptying trash, renaming and deleting media, selecting database sources, etc. So I think it’s a great start, but has a way to go yet before I can consider parting ways with server management via the web UI, which is ultimately what I’m hoping for (5 star rating reserved for that). Either way, thanks Plex for being awesome and for taking these first steps!

Finally, an official PLEX-made Server Activity App. Works great. Love it. I will definitely be using this everyday. Very competitive with Tautulli and Varys. However, I did find one bug; I launched PlexAmp and played any song/album, as soon as playback stops I thought it would disappear from Plex Dash, but it doesn’t. I tried it with the regular Plex app and it works great, shows up and disappears like usual. I am not too sure if this is a PlexAmp issue or Plex Dash, just thought I should let you know. One feature I would like to see included on the expanded view of now playing is Bandwidth currently used. For example; Let’s say a movie is 48mbps, with PGS Subtitles on it would then be using around 80-90mbps. It shows on Tautulli and Varys but not on Plex Dash. I would like to see this implemented. I can already view the bitrate of each film so you are already halfway there. Thank you

An app for admins should have ALL Server admin functions available in the app. Seems like a waste not to be able to manage all server settings from the app. User Management, Remote Access, Library Agents, Database optimization, bundle cleaning, trash emptying etc., seem like no brainer functions for a power user. This app doesn’t seem like it offers that much more than the Plex app in its current state. Plex team, please deliver a true power user set of features tuned for admins. If one has to go to a web browser to complete an admin function, this app’s purpose stands in question.