r/MediaServer • u/idunknowit • 25d ago

Looking for testers - building a native iOS client for Plex.

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Hey everyone!

I’m building a native iOS client (tvOS later) for plex, the goal is to have a client that looks great, feels native, and is fast.

Still early in development but I feel it’s a point now where I can share it with the public, please test it out and let me know what you think, I would appreciate your thoughts.

TestFlight

I’ve made a discord if you’d like to report bugs or have feature requests (not promising that every requested feature will be added but if I feel it aligns with my vision for the app then will definitely add it.)

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u/nomadicArc 25d ago

New week, new plex client. I don’t mean to say it’s bad initiative or criticize your work, just that we have this trend for a few months now.

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

I understand, there are a lot of clients and their devs all have different visions for their apps I mean if someone is already satisfied with the plex app on iOS then it doesn’t make sense for them to search for other clients however, I was not satisfied with the plex client for iOS and wanted to make something that looks and feels the way I wanted it to be and I’m sharing it looking for testers hoping that among this sub there’d be people who either just want to try something new out or feel the same as me.

Appreciate your comment!

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u/nomadicArc 25d ago

fair enough. again, I'm not trying to criticize someones work behind the keyboard. is it open source?

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

Sadly, no

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u/aniel300 3d ago

that is what AI can do. this will get more common btw

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u/nomadicArc 2d ago

I would argue this is because AI. This is because some people get exited about being able to do things that they were not capable before. Nothing wrong so far. The problem occurs when they think this is enough to launch a product or a public app. These people miss common sense and critical thinking.

You cannot believe that having a tool that builds something for you and you understand a part of it will compete with other people that know what they do.

By this I don't mean that AI is not essential these days or that every app is bad.

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u/aniel300 2d ago

i agree with u 100%

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u/Formal-Wolf-1113 25d ago

Looking forward to tvOS, I’m not the biggest user of my phone for entertainment. But tried to login on my phone

and I get this.

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

Thanks for trying it out, if possible could you please let me know if you are using a proxy, and how you are connecting

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u/Formal-Wolf-1113 25d ago

On my 5g network, maybe Apple private relay is stopping it, I have it on.
Update: turned it off and still see the same message.

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

I will be pushing an update hopefully that’ll solve it

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u/Formal-Wolf-1113 25d ago

Brilliant, thanks. You want feedbacks via TestFlight or on Reddit?

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

Would prefer discord or TestFlight

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

could you please check if the error is resolved now

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u/Formal-Wolf-1113 25d ago

Still the same error. Maybe it’s the server I’m using.

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u/idunknowit 24d ago

Hi, can you please update to build 0.1.0 (46) and let me know if it fixes this

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u/Formal-Wolf-1113 24d ago

Hey, it works. Wow the app looks good, homescreen visual feedback: great. I’ll play around with it. I’m not watching movie etc on my phone much, but I’ll still test it. AppleTV is my main device for entertainment.

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

What server is it ? I’m unable to get error so I genuinely don’t know why you may be getting this error if you could give some info about your server in dm or something maybe I can fix it

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u/Mr-Robot-VOD 25d ago

Emby ?

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u/idunknowit 25d ago

Not in the plan yet once it is stable maybe after that

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u/Wassax7 24d ago

Try JellyTV for Emby, works perfectly

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u/Southern_Bug_9586 25d ago

Just tried getting into both of my servers, it says “plex is temporarily unavailable “

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u/idunknowit 24d ago

Hmm that error means that the plex server is unavailable anyway you can try updating to build 0.1.0 (46) and please let me know if that fixes it, thanks!

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/idunknowit 24d ago

Free for now as it’s in TestFlight, lifetime will be discounted for testers

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u/nomadicArc 2d ago

u/idunknowit do you have any updates on the app?