u/SaintDoormatius

Just in the past several days, this has started happening: Chromecasting from the Android app does not work anymore (tried on multiple receiver devices). In the past I had no problem casting music from my Android app to the speakers in my office or around the house. But started several days ago, every time I try, I can hear the speakers "ding" with the cast sound, but it never actually connects and the spinning icon just goes and goes until ultimately ending up back on the device. I got it to work one time by force stopping and clearing the cached data, but since then it just keeps bugging out and not working.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Device: Pixel 9 Pro with current version of Android running the most recent update (2025) of Plexamp

This is a weird one: I currently access Plex on many devices and I noticed today that on ONLY the official client app running on my Nvidia Shield all of my favorite Plex Streaming Channels (ie. BBC News, etc.) are inaccessible with a message stating "Server Appears to Be Offline." However, these channels are running just fine in other places (Android TV client app on another device, Android apps on phone and tablet). I've tried force stopping and clearing the cache on the Shield app but it still happens. I also just noticed that the Movies & TV menu (Plex stuff, not my local server files) also has a yield sign icon. What the heck is going on? Just me?

I have no clue what is going on: my Plex server was running fine last night and early this morning. But a few hours ago, it stopped running, and nothing I do can get it to start back up again. So far I've tried:

• Force Stopping the app
• Clearing the Cache
• Clearing the Data (!)
• Restarting both the Shield and the TV

Every time I go into the app on the Shield and set the server to start, the status just reads "Starting..." and then hangs forever.

Help!

I adore the Instapaper integration on my Kobo Clara Colour, but I wish I could add my most recent "saved" articles to the home page, rather than them being buried in the "More" area. Anyone know if this is possible?

I have the Storygraph integration set up, and initially everything worked fine: it imported my books and needed a bit of tweaking, but otherwise, okay. I was finishing a side-loaded book, so knew it wouldn't really sync that progress. But last night, I started a book I had bought on the Kobo store. Before going to sleep, I wanted to check and see if the progress had synced. It had, but I noticed as the streak number ticked up, it didn't turn orange and remained grey. Usually, that means that the streak is broken. Sure enough, this morning when I checked my account, my streak had gone back to zero.

Anyone else experiencing this? If so, is there a fix?

So, after years of struggle and self-doubt, I finally fixed all of my PLEX problems and I just wanted to share in case anyone else is having similar issues. First, some brief background: I became a PLEX user several years ago after buying the lifetime pass on discount. My goal was to get all of my media on it, partially as a replacement for the greatly-missed Google Play Music service. I was sold by PLEX's services, but also the beauty and joy of using PlexAmp, but also the ability to watch and record live broadcast TV.

My initial setup was as follows:

• Plex server running on my main Windows 11 computer
• Live TV using an HD Homerun device
• Initially watching on a TV using the Roku app, and later the Google TV app

From the get-go, I had tons of issues with the live TV portion of this. My house has a large external antennae on the roof, so I figured it would get OTA channels quite well, particularly in the large metropolitan area I live in. (No specific details, but I live in the third our fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States.)

From the jump, though, channel reception was VERY finicky: sometimes around thirty channels would come through the HD Homerun, and other times (especially in summer) only ten to five channels would come through. It seemed to vary based on season and weather and was incredibly annoying. So much so, at one point (after about two years) I figured the HD Homerun I had was a lemon, so I bought a new, fancy HD Homerun Flex Quatro, which was top-of-the-line at the time. I had better reception for a few months, then it went south again. After futzing with it for a few more months, I chalked it up to my antennae and the way it was set up (it came with the house). It was annoying, but I just acquiesced.

What made things even more confusing—and something I think I commented about here—was that at one point, out of desperation, I purchased a co-ax splitter so I could run a cable from the antennae to both the TV natively and the HD Homerun separately. When I used the TV connection natively, I got EVERY station perfectly fine with no interference; whereas the HD Homerun connection would still be incredibly finicky and often inoperable. I was confused: why would the signal (especially through a splitter) work great OTA direct to the TV but not through the HD Homerun?

Jump ahead a couple of years, and I was considering replacing the HD Homerun *again* particularly after it failed to receive and record a much-anticipated show on PBS (which usually came in pretty well). I started researching alternatives, and noticed that the NVIDIA Shield could serve as a Plex server on it's own. AND that the WinTV DualHD receiver from Hauppauge worked natively with it. I figured "why not give it a shot?"

EVERYONE: once this setup arrived and I got it installed (super easy), the reception was solid. Using the combination of the NVIDIA Shield Plex server and the WinTV receiver, I've had ZERO problems with any of the 60-odd stations I get over the antennae. Again, your mileage may vary, but for whatever reason, this combination solved my major issues with OTA live TV over the Plex server.

That said, the other issue I was having was with the official PLEX app not working with live TV broadcast. I would just get an error message. Anyway, I finally fiddled with it this week and discovered if I turn off "Disable video stream transcoding" and "Use hardware acceleration when available" in the server settings, it fixed the problem and I can finally use the official app to stream live OTA TV.

So, as of May 2026, all my PLEX issues are solved. I hope this helps anyone else in a similar situation.