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[kitler53]

What kind of issues are you having on your PS5?

won't establish a connection.  it's not in front of me ATM but something along the lines of "cannot find the server."

[the-pi-guy]

won't establish a connection.  it's not in front of me ATM but something along the lines of "cannot find the server."

I haven't had any issues myself.

Some things I found when searching:

Reddit post

I just recently joined the PS5 club. I've been running a Plex media server for years, accessed mainly through AppleTV, with no issues. Naturally, I installed Plex onto my PS5 immediately. I'm able to login to my Plex account without issue, but despite all customary troubleshooting, the PS5 client would not connect to my media server. I've been fussing with it for few weeks without success. I eventually found the solution, but all credit goes to the the clever folks that actually came up with it and know what they're talking about. I thought I'd share my findings with the community here.
The basic connectivity problem I experienced was due to the PS5 client attempting to use an insecure (http) DNS server lookup. This evidently triggered my router's security and it locked down the connection. According to Plex:
"Some routers or modems have a feature known as "DNS rebinding protection", some implementations of which can prevent an app from being able to connect to a Plex Media Server securely on the local network. For most users, this won't be an issue, but some users of higher-end routers (or those provided by some ISPs) may run into problems."
So, what to do about it? Judging by all the posts here, I'd say there's more than one way to skin a cat. For me, I have a router running OpenWrt firmware. I imagine there are similar settings in most router firmwares. Locate your DNS settings and drill down to find the Domain Whitelist. Simply add

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plex.direct

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to the list. In OpenWrt navigate to Network > DHCP and DNS > Filter > Domain whitelist. That's it! Plex is working perfectly on my PS5.

Plex post

The application environment that we run in on the PS5 does not allow mixed content requests. The app is loaded via https, and any subsequent requests made via http are blocked. This leaves us with few options. If you want to be able to communicate with your server it will need to be published to plex.tv (and therefore get a certificate that allows us to communicate with it via https). Your server must have a certificate and must have secure connections enabled. Please see https://support.plex.tv/articles/206225077-how-to-use-secure-server-connections/ for further details.

Sign in to your Plex account in the server.
Go to Settings > Server > Network in the Plex Web App (and toggle the Advanced settings to be visible).
The Secure connections setting can be adjusted there.

Reddit post 2

When I set my DNS to 1.1.1.1 it worked flawlessly. If you're experiencing that error try setting your DNS to 1.1.1.1!

[kitler53]

i found that same reddit post.   


..but i'm less interested in troubleshooting my test and more interested in what you did.   I've started going down the rabbit hole of learning about what a NAS is.   seems like the most elegant way to have an always on media server but i know very little about it expect what i've learned this week.    

[the-pi-guy]

i found that same reddit post. 


..but i'm less interested in troubleshooting my test and more interested in what you did.  I've started going down the rabbit hole of learning about what a NAS is.  seems like the most elegant way to have an always on media server but i know very little about it expect what i've learned this week.   

I don't recall ever having issues with my PS5 streaming. 

I'm not sure I'd recommend what I did. 

Rosewill 4U Server Chassis Rackmount Case | 15 3.5" HDD Bays

I bought one of these, and frankensteined a cheap PC with I think two or three cards with SATA ports. 

6-Port PCIe SATA 3.0 Expansion Card - 6 Gbps, Includes 6 SATA Cables and Low Profile Bracket (ASMedia ASM1166)


I think it's an overkill PC for what most people would want, but I still wish I spent a little more on something more upgradable.  



I originally built something like this: 

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I did find this list of prebuilt NAS, if you didn't want to build something yourself, and it'd probably save on software set up, but it's more expensive relatively.  

- You probably don't need a dedicated GPU, I think the integrated GPU on the 14100 will handle a few 4k streams even. Unless you're planning on going all out and sharing it with your entire family.  

- SSD for the Operating System, and the data will be part of the HDDs.  

- I personally use Ubuntu for my OS, as it's free. Unraid costs a bit from what I've seen.  

- I personally have my HDDs in RAID6, but you lose 2 drives worth of data in exchange for better speeds, and you can lose 2 of your drives without any data loss. 

- I specifically use NAS rated HDDs


A lot of this can be scaled up, depending on your goals.  

Personally I have over 100 TB of disk space, and I frequently stream disc quality 4k which is like 8-10x more bandwidth than Netflix, and to ~4 TVs at a time at most as I share with my parents and my in-laws.  

[kitler53]

woah, that excel sheet is a great reference.

I have a pretty small blu-ray library and 0 4k discs.   mostly I just have ~500 discs of dvds of movies i loved but find too cumbersome to watch.   I no longer will tolerate the 3 book shelves of storage required to "display" all of these discs so these days everything is in basement storage except for my holiday movies.   That is only like 1 shelf of discs so i can tolerate it.   

but i have the entire series to friends, seinfeld, buffy, full house for instance.   would be nice to be able to access that content.   i'd want to stream at the "highest possible quality" for that content but since it's comeing from a DVD i think it's a pretty low bar.   I'm not sure I even have a computer that can read a blu-ray anymore actually.   that "old laptop" is pretty old and my newer computer doesn't have any disc drive at all.


i think my friend said unraid is a $50 per year cost.   I like free but how bad is the learning curve for Ubuntu?   I'll say that I managed to get it working but getting emulation working on my steam deck was a lot of effort.  that is my only experience with linux.

[the-pi-guy]

i think my friend said unraid is a $50 per year cost.  I like free but how bad is the learning curve for Ubuntu?

I don't think it's too bad, unless you're trying to do a lot more with stuff. Setting up Plex was pretty easy. Setting up a RAID configuration took some time and figuring out. 

Ubuntu and Mint are largely friendly for a windows user I'd say.