Roku 2 won't establish a direct connection
skius opened this issue · 8 comments
When I block port 32400 and add cloudflare domains with port 80 and 443 to the Plex settings and set SSL to Preferred, Roku 2 (maybe more clients) can't directly connect anymore and will be relayed (with a slow connection).
Relay: http://i.imgur.com/165uiCL.jpg
Plex Settings: http://i.imgur.com/xI4jL3P.jpg
The cloudflare proxy works on other clients, so far only Roku breaks.
I know this isn't an issue caused by this config (at least I think it's not) but maybe somebody else who stumbles upon this knows a fix for this.
Aww mannn I just closed all the active issues :'(
I can't confirm this as I don't have a Roku, try turn CF off and see if it works just with Nginx. And include some access logs if you could.
From my understanding Roku should work fine, I know others who have used it in the past with my config so I'm not sure what the issue is.
I have a Roku stick and it connects directly to the server (without CloudFlare). CloudFlare breaks the recent pause bug fix, though.
Sounds like a CloudFlare issue. CF was always a pro of reverse proxying but I personally chain my reverse proxy. So server in country x, to reverse proxy in country y,z,f. With GeoDNS, since I found CF wasn't very good in my region.
Unfortunately if you're going to use CF it's going to be limited by their Nginx configurations which wont have the read timeout set high, and presumably breaks Roku for whatever reason.
I currently use Plex and nginx reverse proxy on the same server and it’s working great, but I want to get a VPS on a better network to improve peering. How do you configure Plex to allow connections from the server where nginx is hosted? Do you add the nginx server IP to the list of IPs allowed without auth in Plex settings? Because if I enabled remote access then the clients would connect directly to the Plex server and bypass the proxy.
I just chain the nginx reverse proxy, so reverse proxy on the machine running plex, then a reverse proxy to that reverse proxy on my VPS.
No further details have been provided and I'm getting conflicting reports of this working.
Probably a CloudFlare issue like the PS4.
Closing till more details are provided.
I've found that when my roku streaming stick had this issue, changing "Allow Fallback to Insecure Connections" from "never" to "always" would fix it.
I also disabled plex relay, but that's more of a personal preference not an actual fix.
That is mentioned in the README as well, enabling Insecure Connections. If you go via CloudFlare it often still breaks devices. It's the price you pay, as I've said this configuration was never aimed at allowing CF, it was a side benefit. Anybody taking their setup half seriously would chain connections with a 'custom CDN' like setup I think.
Using a public CDN like CloudFlare for streaming is inadvisable, there's no guaranteed bandwidth and you have zero control of edge node configurations which often undo all the optimizations in my configuration and break some devices.