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I just checked, and Plex happily played my local media with my internet connection powered down. I'm using Plex 1.16.5.1554 running in a jail via the FreeNAS plugin and playing from a Roku Stick+.

Only hiccup was the Roku client took unusually long to bring up my list of local content; I could imagine it timing out on DNS connections.

I've never connected it to the Plex servers ("associated it with my Plex account"), perhaps thats the difference?

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Oh that's cool. This happened to me a few years ago, we'd moved house in December and had no internet all Christmas/new year due to all the contractors being on holiday. I was emotionally scarred enough to still remember it today!

Maybe that behaviour's fixed now, or maybe I just hadn't found the setting mentioned in the comments below.

To answer your question, yes it appeared to be attempting to authenticate with their servers, even though my Plex server was local

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