LAN networks is only available for plex pass users
Fribbtastic
joined 2 years ago
Nice. I have a recent story about this.
Basically, we have a process to sell something that is too big, complex and extensive for smaller customers so the idea was to drastically reduce this process to be able to give smaller customers the ability to sell that process.
So, in January, I got an email with the assignment to do this. Since we don't do it like this, I say he should submit a ticket in our tracker and plan it into a release to have some sort of structure and organisation in what is being done and when. Such a thing should also happen with our project manager because, well, he is the person managing what is being worked on so he should know what is going on and what is important. This doesn't happen.
4 Months later, the person sending the mail asked me what the status of that is, I didn't know because I was busy with our other stuff that actually followed our organisation.
This feature is super-duper important and already promised to some customers so it needs to happen quickly. Okay, we plan it in a release and I start working on it. The Plan was that since this was a "1 Task Process", doing that in our existing process, wouldn't make much sense and we decided to do this in a separate process that then relies on the codebase of our "main" process. While working on it, more and more issues popped up that made it really complicated to do it like that because our existing code just relied on a lot of things even if they are not in use. This meant that, to use it in the capacity as I needed, I would have to rip a lot of stuff out of the existing codebase and made this more commonly useable even though this wasn't "used" in the process anyway.
Yes, that sounds weird but you need to know that this is a codebase grown over 15 years so weird things are to be expected.
I do all of that and the sales team has a meeting and I was asked if I had already something that could be presented there, which I had, sort of.
This is presented in that meeting and suddenly this is not enough. "There needs to be other places to be involved in this as well and the customer needs to be able to make changes after the fact".
So, from the initial "1 Task process" we are now at a more complex process to handle the additional stuff of involving a separate entity of the customer, starting another process and being able to make changes to the initial variables.
I don't necessarily have a problem with changing things, but the utter lack of thought or planning of the person submitting the feature request is what drives me nuts. I mean, you had 4 months to think about what this should do and all you could come up with were 4 bullet points that just barely resemble the current state. Adding to that, the constant emphasis on "This is important and needs to happen ASAP". I mean, in literally every mail that person sent to me was the "this is very important, this needs to be priority".
It is like, yeah dude, I got that the 2nd time you wrote that to me but you could have at least invested some time yourself to properly think about this more than 10 minutes. To maybe notice that what you want isn't enough to do what you need.
It was definitely worth it for me.
I previously had a Ender 3v2 and an Ender 5 Plus and the E5P had constant issues in which I tried to upgrade it step by step to address those issues. However, never really could fix all of them. The last issues I just gave up on was the bed. While it worked fine, I never really could get a good first layer on the bed, when I calibrated the Z-offset correctly on one side, it wasn't good on the other side because the nozzle was too far away from the bed. I rarely could get the bed mesh range under 0.4mm which was quite annoying. But smaller prints, it printed well.
Last year in October, I decided to build a Voron and got the 2.4 LDO kit for 350mm. Took a bit of time to get it all assembled and some hiccups here and there but since it is up and running there is really only one issue that I haven't quite figured out yet (the A motor sometimes doesn't want to turn, after re-plugging the cable and restarting, it works without issues).
But I could print PLA, ABS and ABS-GF on it so far. I am also currently building the Armor Turtle AFC (filament changer) for it.
But 770€ for a 250mm V2.4 sounds very low to me so I would assume that it is 2nd hand. This could be fine but keep in mind that the printer also could have issues, issues you might not know about where they would be coming from because you simply bought the machine as a whole. So, identifying the problem could be a bit annoying.
Other than that, I am really happy with mine, I usually get 0.1mm difference in the bed mesh range (running a voron tap as probe), the print speed is great (but I also didn't optimise it and just used the speed settings from the default profile in Orca Slicer)
Yeah, got the mail yesterday. VIP member for 6 years and immediately cancelled it.
I mean, I am okay with paying for something that I use but double the price just like that? Nope.
It doesn't, even when you share the Server, your users will be able to stream remotely.
Yeah, it looks like that the new App Version was built from scratch rather than just a new Interface on top of the previous infrastructure. Because of that, features were not implemented (yet) but the public release was pushed out for whatever reason.
There is a lot of anger about this on both Reddit and the forums about this with countless posts about how poor that "new Plex Experience" is. Things not working or straight up missing.
Yes, I am aware of those changes but what has this to do with Plex Home?
From those changes, as long as you, the Server Admin, has Plex Pass, your Users would still be able to stream remotely without having Plex Pass themselves:
When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee.
And there is nothing being mentioned that sharing your Plex Pass features to your Plex Home Users will change in any way.
please explain, I haven't seen anything specifically mentioned that Plex Home will change.
Yes, you will need Plex Pass for remote streaming at the end of the month (only as admin for all of your users or every user needs Plex Pass or that new "watch" thingy).
relaible!!! I want to start a print and return once it is done. Not worrying about print failures
Well, any printer will do that if you calibrate it well enough. I have seen many people not doing anything in that regard and complaining that they can't get anything to print.
However, getting to that calibration can be easier or more involved.
Works with a good slicer. Back in the day I used PrusaSlicer with UV-tools to convert it to Anycubic fileformat.
I only used PrusaSlicer for FDM prints; for resin, I use Chitubox or, more often, Lychee Slicer. "Good" is fairly ambiguous here because what would a "good" slicer look like to you? Either of the ones I mentioned would be good and are fairly popular.
resin vat mixing (vat tilting is good enough) to prevent resins from seperating during long prints
I don't think that most consumer resin printers have this sort of feature. The Lift and retract of the built plate should be enough to keep the resin well-mixed and any resin that is separating because of that wouldn't be something that I would consider buying again anyway. Funnily enough, since you mentioned Anycubic Resin, this was specifically my experience with it that it easily separated. Never had this problem with other manufacturers like Elegoo or Sunlu.
at least two washing containers (first stage dirty IPA, second stage “clean” IPA)
This would be hard to get "out of the box", but you might be able to get a replacement container for the wash station separately (at least that is what I did).
I noticed none of the printers have magnetic/spring metal build platforms. Are they outdated/no longer required?
This is mostly an upgrade that you can do to add a magnetic sheet on which you then can add this flexible built plate. This is still around like WhamBam Flex plates. I used that on two of my printers but never bothered to do that on my current printer because with the right raft and bottom exposure settings there isn't much need to do that, also it is messier.
cleaning liquid: Is isopropanol alcohol (IPA) still the goto?
Pretty much for any "normal" resin. Water-washable resin has gotten more popular but the majority is still cleaned with more aggressive solvents like IPA.
Cure and Wash? No idea. all the solutions I have looked at seem to be still similar to the old anycubic cure and wash. The Prusa CW1 on the other hand looks like a well-thought-out solution.
I think this should be answered based on what printer you choose in the end. My first Printer was an Elegoo Mars 2 Pro with a combo wash and cure box from Anycubic. I always had to remove the models from the built plate before washing them, which made a mess and I used so many paper towels to clean that up.
With my Saturn 4 Ultra, I can just take the built plate and put it into the Wash bucket and let both the built plate and the models get clean which is so much more convenient and I have less of a mess to clean up because it is just IPA that I have to wipe up and not Resin and then clean the surface with IPA again and wipe that up too.
As for the Printer, I am pretty happy with my Saturn 4 Ultra at the moment. It is affordable and I could quickly get it to print because of the Auto levelling feature (which isn't really auto levelling) and the integrated exposure test which is much faster than what UVTools would generate. The VAT tilt is a bit dangerous because of a potential resin leak of the release film, leaking into your printer's internals, but it will speed up the printing process quite a bit.
The other features like the camera weren't that interesting to me but the 16K version has, for example, a light (which the first gen was missing) so you would also be able to check the printer in a dark environment. On the other hand, the AI detection for print failures is still something I would consider a gimmick because it would only do that from one side, the side facing the camera. A failure on any other side would not be detected.
Unfortunately, I also don't have any other experience with other brands or printers, I only ever had Elegoo printers from the Mars 2 Pro, the Original Saturn and now the Saturn 4 Ultra and was fairly happy with all of them in what they brought me.
annoyed I paid for a lifetime membership and still couldn’t invite household members without paying for their licenses too
Invite your users to your Plex Home and they would be able to use the majority of Plex Pass features...
I would disagree with the last sentence.
Astrobot was actually a game. It was more like any other game that taught you how to play the game with the implemented features. This could have been any other game doing the same thing but it came directly from Sony.
Looking at the "Welcome Tour gameplay" video, this isn't even close to what Astrobot did. It is a Hub in which you get told what those features are with minigames for that specific feature.
My point is: If the only point is to advertise the functionality of the console, charging any sort of money for it is not productive for what it should be achieving. You want people to learn how to use your console and then charge money for it will do the exact opposite. People won't buy it because there is no benefit to actually buying it.
Any other game would teach you how to play it anyway.
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the actual problem here is that OPs network is not configured correctly and that Plex detects that the physical local client is actually accessing the server from a totally other network.
Fairly common when you use docker to run Plex and have the container run in bridge mode. This will put the container in the docker network that will then be different to your local network.
Plex determines if a stream is local or remote based on the network so when your container is in bridge mode, the physical local client will be a remote connection because of the different networks.
And since remote streaming requires Plex pass since end of April, you will see this.