Plex Streams

Dashboard widget for Unraid that shows what's currently streaming on your Plex Media Server — who's watching what, where they are, whether Plex is transcoding, and how much bandwidth each session is using.

Fork of dorgan/Unraid-plexstreams, which hadn't been touched since late 2023.

Install

In Unraid, Plugins → Install Plugin, paste this URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/loukaniko85/unraid-plexstreams/master/plexstreams.plg

Then open Settings → Plex Streams, click Get Plex Token, sign in, and pick your server(s).

The plugin appears as Plex Streams in the Plugins list and adds a dashboard widget, a sidebar entry, and a settings page.

What you see

Each stream shows the title and poster, the user, where they're streaming from (LAN — or WAN with country flag and city), how long they've been watching, current position, and a colored chip telling you what Plex is doing:

Plus resolution (4K / 1080p / SD) and bandwidth (e.g. 11 Mbps).

Click a row to expand the full session details — player, device, codec, container, subtitle track, full geoip — plus an Open in Plex button that deep-links to the title on app.plex.tv. If you turn on Allow Stream Termination, a red Terminate button appears that kills the session.

The header line shows total streams and total bandwidth (2 streams · 12.1 Mbps), plus a tiny sparkline of recent bandwidth. There's a sort selector (start time / user / bandwidth) and a bell icon for opt-in desktop notifications when a new stream starts — both per-browser. If a configured Plex server stops responding, a 1 server unreachable chip appears instead of it silently dropping out. With more than one server, a per-server breakdown shows underneath.

Polling pauses while the dashboard tab is hidden and refreshes immediately when you come back, so the widget isn't hammering Plex when nobody's watching.

Settings

Release notes

See the CHANGES block at the top of plexstreams.plg (also shown in Unraid's Plugins UI after install) for what's in the current release and what came from upstream.

Credit

Original plugin by Donald Organ. This fork is maintained by loukaniko.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.