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Synology's DS Video apps just got updated yesterday to be quite a bit better on Android TV and Android.

Plex is pretty intrusive. Phones home constantly, for reasons that seem contrived considering all the media is on your hardware, the software is running on your hardware, and the 3rd party APIs they use for meta info can be used directly without routing through their website. Disaster waiting to happen when the MPAA gets involved. Or hackers, again.

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I like plex. It works, but would love an alternative so I could have separate users without having to have a plex pass. Not that I'm opposed to paying; I just want everything local to my machine.

Emby has this capability and it seems pretty flexible...good for the "kids have their own library" use case...

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Users

Sadly, it's approximately you plus like 12 other people who care about the issue you describe. The experience works and works well, so very few people care how it works.

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