Plex with Synology bridge network
Hey all, hoping someone can help with this! I've been able to get all of my integrations working except for Plex. Most of the containers on my Synology NAS are routed through a bridge network, which is making retrieving my Plex token difficult. I don't know of a way that I can access the Plex server via the bridge network from outside of the machine, and every time I pull up the XML in Plex, it's either been through my DDNS domain or through the local IP which don't give me the right token. Has anyone run into anything like this before?
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Hi @james ,
sadly we do noch provide any support for Plex itself.
As far as I'm aware, @Tag is the only core member which still runs Plex.
Have you already read https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/ for further hints?
There's also a server token that you can use instead: https://www.plexopedia.com/plex-media-server/general/plex-token/#plexservertoken
I think they have the same problem as you: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/10murm4/comment/j65bhz7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Thanks, I appreciate the help! I've already checked out that Plex support link and it unfortunately doesn't help -- I know how to retrieve the token, but the problem is that I can't retrieve the token from within the bridge network on my NAS, which uses a different subnet from my main network. When I try to access the token, it serves it to me at the end of a URL string based on my main subnet rather than the bridge subnet, so the authentication fails.
I also tried using the server token that's stored in my Preferences.xml file, but that one didn't work either.
Oh well. I'll keep playing around with it, but thanks for the response either way!
No problem. Sorry that I cannot help. But this is up to you to figure out, since we cannot help with each and every environment 🙂 Hope you understand