Multiple users on single Plex server

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Here’s my situation:

  • I run Infuse (paid subscription #1) locally on my AppleTV to connect to a my local Plex server.
  • A friend runs Infuse (paid subscription #2) remotely on his AppleTV to connect to this same Plex server.

Two paid Infuse subscriptions, one Plex server.

We’re forced to share a single Plex profile because Infuse doesn’t support multiple Plex profiles.

This is super annoying.

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I have a solution for you.

  • Open your plex admin
  • Go to the spanner
  • Click manage library access on the left
  • Grant library access
  • Enter your friends email address
  • Select the libraries you want to share
  • Untick add to plex home
  • Click Send

Your friend will get an email with the shared library they need to

  • Open the email
  • Accept the invitation
  • Sign in or sign up for Plex
  • Open infuse
  • Remove the current Plex share
  • Add a new plex share
  • Use their plex login rather than yours

You will then have separate watch history.

3

Thank you!

I’ll give that a shot.

4

Is there a similar workaround but for Emby instead of Plex? TIA

5

What you want is a standard feature of Plex, Emby etc. They can do multi-user pretty much from the start. But the point here is that you can’t simply switch between these different Plex, Jellyfin and Emby users. My wife, for example, has a completely different progression with series than I do. I need access to different Jellyfin accounts for this, but I don’t want to put a second Apple TV in the living room.

Best regards
johannes

6

His solution does work, if you use multiple profiles on the Apple TV, then you have two separate Infuses instances.

7

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but changing profiles does not change the infuse instance for me

8

Nope. Can’t confirm.

9

This doesn’t work for child accounts.

Hopefully that’s something that can be implemented with the new Plex public API announcement.

10

This is a good solution, and is what I used to do. There are a couple of caveats worth noting:

1: As others have mentioned there’s not a quick way to switch these in Infuse (as far as I know). You have to define the user to login as when you create the share and you can’t quickly switch between them.

2: Every additional user you add will require a Plex Pass for some features (such as Skip Intro). I ran into this myself when they fixed whatever bug was letting users without Plex Passes access Skip Intro/Credits/etc. if the Server had a Plex Pass. I think this was between PMS version 1.40.4 (where it works) and 1.40.5 (where it stops working). I mention this because it took me a lot of troubleshooting to figure out why suddenly Skip Intro stopped working on all my clients lol.

I have since switched to Jellyfin (just in the last couple of weeks) in anticipation of them adding Skip Intro in the 10.10 release and (ideally) Infuse supporting it shortly thereafter. Best I can tell Infuse also doesn’t support Plex Home users, but does support Users in Emby/Jellyfin so it’s a step in the right direction for me. If Infuse finally adds fast user switching between Jellyfin users (which seems a logical iteration after adding direct mode) then it’ll be the perfect client (it’s already pretty close, so I’m not complaining)