Nexview 0.7.0 — Sign in with Plex
New
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Sign in with Plex. Connect your Plex server once and your household can
sign in with their Plex account instead of a Nexview password. Only people
who actually have access to your library get in — that is checked against
the server's own identifier, so a stranger's Plex account is turned away
even though it authenticates fine. -
Connect by picking your server. Setting it up needs no token hunting:
the administrator signs in with Plex and chooses a server from a list. His
own account is linked in the same step — otherwise his first Plex sign-in
would have created a second, ordinary account whenever his Plex address
differs from his Nexview one. -
Link an existing account. Everyone already invited can connect their
Plex account under Profile → Security, and keeps signing in with a password
as well. Both ways lead into the same account. Accounts created through Plex
have no password at first; the profile offers to set one and refuses to
unlink while that would lock you out. -
New accounts on your terms. Anyone with library access can get an
account on first sign-in, with the role, quota and age limit you set in
advance — or you turn that off and keep invitations mandatory. New accounts
never get automatic approval, and "administrator" cannot be a default role.
You are notified in the bell, optionally by mail, whenever an account
appears. -
Deleting a user now sticks. Removing someone who signed in through Plex
blocks that Plex account from creating a new one. Without it, deleting was
pointless — they would simply sign in again. The block outlives the account
and can be lifted in the settings. -
Directing and writing show up in a filmography. A person's page used to
list only what they acted in, so a director's page showed their cameos
instead of the films they made. Directing, writing, screenplay and story
credits now appear alongside the acting roles, labelled as such. One entry
per title: the work itself wins over a cameo in the same film, and directing
wins over writing when someone did both.
Changed
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Settings are sorted by service. "Services" now has a second row of
buttons — General, TMDB, Radarr, Sonarr, Plex — instead of five blocks you
had to scroll past. Region, language and demo data live under "General",
since they belong to no single service. -
"Users may choose the folder" is now set per service. Movies and shows
have different folder layouts, so wanting fixed paths for shows no longer
forces them on movies. The switch sits with Radarr and Sonarr respectively,
right above the folder it governs. Existing installations keep whatever the
old shared switch was set to.
Under the hood
- The media-server connection sits behind one interface with Plex as the first
adapter, so Jellyfin and Emby can be added later without rework. Nothing
outside that package knows which provider is in use — the database columns
and settings are provider-neutral too. - Only servers you own are offered when connecting. Ones merely shared with
you are hidden and counted, because picking one would tie sign-in to the
wrong circle of people and break watched-state later. The chosen address is
probed before it is stored; if nothing answers you are told, and sign-in
still works, because that runs through Plex rather than the server. - Prepared but not built: detecting titles added to the server outside
Radarr/Sonarr, and a per-user "already watched" marker.