Annoyingly I had a strange issue this morning with my Network manager (connected via LAN cable) continually losing the connection - all seems better now, relocated the router and changed the cable.
Now when I started PlexHTPC it came up blank. It is a Flatpak application.
I first removed the flatpak, and made sure it’s ‘data’ folder in ~/.var/app got cleared.
So when it’s installed again, I get the ‘sign in’ screen:
OMFGawd why do people insist on using containers when they don’t need to? Apps in containers should be a last resort. As for Plex I would check with them, cause this is most likely their issue.
Well yes, I’ll be looking at Jellyfin as a side project.
The upshot is that this issue never made sense to me, but at 5pm I gave it a last try and it just worked…
This is the evil of Ubuntu speaking - Plex wasn’t supported on Linux for a while, but as you can guess, when ‘Linux’ support arrived, that meant ‘Snapd’ because Linux means Ubuntu…
With Plex pushing itself more as a streaming service I’m hoping Jellyfin will be ready to drop in when I abandon it… but with the random Network issues I’ve experienced recently it’s hard to work on the issues.
Is Kodi a possible alternative? I offer that blindly, in that, despite having installed it on multiple occasions; and using XBMC once in its formative years; it never progressed much past the installation stage. Life gets in the way.
I remember them being more or less the same, though I see from Ben’s comment above, that Plex is more focused on streaming these days. I played with both of them (Plex and Kodi/XBMC) at some point but ultimately did little with either.
why do people insist on using containers when they don’t need to? Apps in containers should be a last resort. As for Plex I would check with them, cause this is most likely their issue.