The funny thing is - when I uninstalled my Plex APP - I decided to reinstall the app again and see if that would change things.Īfter I uninstalled Plex from the Roku and then reinstalled the app stopped trying to force the fee upon us and worked fine. This WILL work - However, it's not as easy to navigate as the Plex app. So this saves you the time of having to install Servio or UMS and then configure the server and- blah blah blah. I installed the Media streamer app in the store (for free) and it allows me to access my Plex Server and my other PC's. So why should I pay more for a service I initially expected to come free with the $80 device? I only purchased it for streaming media from my PC to a tv for the little one. So, my initial reaction was I would take it back (to the retail store) and trade it in for a WD live TV instead being I don't really use the TV services plex has. I received a notification on the device stating I needed to purchase the app. Plex stopped working on my Roku 2 after about a month of use. I read that there was a beta Roku channel called NokNok that could work with Serviio, but it appears to have been abandoned. I did try another media streaming channel on Roku, though for the life of me I can't remember the name now.

Nevertheless, I would still recommend Plex for Roku users unless someone can suggest an alternative that works well on Roku specifically. I spent a fair bit of time fixing things. The latter comes from Plex Media Server selecting the wrong entry in the imdb database.Īgain, editing/correcting errors is not very straightforward in Plex Media Server. Such errors are not uncommon, apparently. The former can result from a freeDB error in punctuation or a letter capitalized where it shouldn't be. Like duplicate artist entries for music or wrong movie and poster for a movie when there's another (or several) with similar name. My one minor gripe is that it's difficult sometimes to correct errors in the database. The Plex channel works well once everything is set up. I'll take your word for it that there are better media streamers, but any alternative will have to work with Roku. It seems a common complaint is that Plex Media Server is resource-hungry, but that's not a problem on this computer

I'm streaming from this computer (in details) to three Rokus.

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