Streams Manager Docs
  • Overview
    • What is Streams Manager?
    • System overview
      • Panel navigation
      • General terms
      • User classes
  • Configuration
    • First time login
      • Included accounts
      • Reset default passwords
    • Setup proxy
    • Add Plex accounts
    • Add your administrator login
    • Settings
      • General
        • Site settings
        • Administrator contact settings
        • Page settings
      • Email notifications
        • SMTP settings
        • Notification templates
        • Free SMTP options
      • Discord notifications
        • Discord settings
          • Creating a Discord bot
        • Notification templates
      • Payment gateways
        • General settings
        • PayPal settings
          • Generating PayPal REST credentials
          • Generating PayPal NVP Credentials
        • Stripe settings
        • Plisio settings
      • Registration settings
      • Payment reminders settings
      • Subscriptions & trials settings
      • Requests integration settings
        • Ombi settings
        • Overseerr settings
        • Petio settings
      • Discord integration settings
        • Creating a Discord bot
      • Media server integration settings
      • Referrals settings
      • Custom content
        • Logo
        • Wallpaper
        • Home page section 1 content
        • Home page section 2 content
        • Pricing content
        • Subscription page content
        • Library statistics section content
        • Custom theme
      • Miscellaneous settings
        • Self invite settings
    • Library groups configuration
    • Plan configuration
      • Recurring plans setup
        • Stripe recurring plan setup
        • PayPal recurring plan setup
    • Server location configuration
    • Media server configuration
    • Libraries configuration
    • Users and data import
      • Users synchronization/import
    • Mobile app setup
    • Discount codes
    • Linked users
    • Emby devices
    • Custom roles
    • Custom domain
    • Test the flows
  • Server Migration
    • Migrating users between servers
  • Plex Bans
    • Overview
    • How to deal with a ban
    • Requiring users to change their Plex account
    • Server re-invite
  • Troubleshooting
    • PayPal
      • Error: PayPal is missing subscription ID details
      • Error: PayPal subscription ID: xxx does not have any transactions
      • Error: Create Subscription Api response error RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND
    • Plex
      • Error: HTTP 422 Unprocessable Entity when inviting a user or processing a subscription
      • Error: PlexApiException was thrown
      • Error: Error communicating with Plex 401
      • Error: Plex response status code does not indicate success: 404
    • Emby/Jellyfin
      • Emby/Jellyfin users cannot login and are getting incorrect password message
    • Error: There are no servers with capacity that accomodate plan
    • Error: User tried to subscribe but servers are full
    • No plans show on the checkout page
    • Specific plan is not showing up on the checkout page
  • FAQ
    • How Streams Manager enforces streaming limits?
    • How Streams Manager enforces download limits?
    • How Streams Manager enforces transcoding rules?
    • How to use a custom domain?
    • How does Streams Manager know that a user is active or expired?
    • How to invite a user manually via Streams Manager?
    • How to change user’s Plex/Emby/Jellyfin email or username?
    • How to enable two factor (2FA) authentication?
    • How does Streams Manager match payments during transaction sync?
    • How to mass migrate users from one media server to another?
    • What is the flow for a new customer in Streams Manager?
    • What runs and is synchronized on a recurring basis?
    • I am seeing notes mentioning credits on the payment edit screen. What is that?
    • How does Streams Manager select a Plex server to add a user?
    • How to dedicate a specific server to trials only?
    • Can I switch platforms?
    • How to bulk invite users?
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  1. FAQ

How Streams Manager enforces streaming limits?

Streams Manager provides plan streaming limits enforcement functionality. Each plan can be configured to allow only certain number of simultaneous devices/streams and Streams Manager will then enforce those limits. The process works as follows:

  • Every 5 minutes, Streams Manager collects streaming activity on all your media servers

  • If server settings have logging of streaming activity enabled, the activity will be logged to the database so it can be reviewed later

  • Streaming activity data indicates which user is doing the streaming, from which device, which IP address and from which server

  • Streams Manager then checks currently active plan for the user doing the streaming and how many simultaneous devices/streams their plan allows. Streams Manager does not check whether multiple devices are coming from different IP addresses (i.e. it does not enforce IP lock)

  • If the user is exceeding their plan limits, all their streams will be stopped and a message will be shown on user's screen indicating that they have too many devices in use

  • A notification will be sent to the user also indicating that they have too many devices in use. To modify the content of this notification, see notification templates in settings

On Plex servers, this process requires your Plex account to have a Plex Pass as stopping of the stream feature requires it. If your Plex account does not have it, all the above actions will be performed except of stopping of the stream and showing the message on user's device. Emby and Jellyfin servers are supported as well.

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