Licensing plan allowing for direct remote connections

Channels DVR Server Feature Requests
#1

I've thought about this quite a bit before posting this as it's more-or-less asking for a feature and a license change at the same time.

First, I want to acknowledge what seems like an obvious licensing choice to me. Remote access to a single server requires a channels account. Creating a 1:1 license model to protect revenues seems the goal and it makes sense.

So, will Channels consider adding a 'PRO' tier a higher monthly rate that will allow multiple servers for remote access? Alternatively, a multi-server plan where the first server is $8/m and additonal servers are $2/m or something like that? I'm specifically targeting remote access here, not running private home servers and doing direct connect. Multiple servers that each can handle remote clients.

I have many plex boxes for various things and I think I can get a better user experience from Channels.

I'm just kind of casting a line here to see if the devs/owners would consider such a thing to allow for use cases outside the 'home dvr with a splash of remote access' model.

#2

To support multiple remote DVRs, you could always create multiple unique email addresses/Channels accounts, and have each one associated with its own DVR with remote access enabled.

(I imagine you could even trick the system into using email tags as unique identifiers, such as [email protected], [email protected], etc.)

#3

right.... are they willing to cut me a deal on licenses 2-5 and so on?

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#4

You can simply create multiple accounts like mentioned. Docker will allow you to host them on alternate ports to support remote streaming.

While it’s not public, we can manually set your remote port for you so everything works.

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#5

While I'm willing to pay maybe $20 for a multi-server setup, I'm not interested in repeatedly paying $8 each server as that will spiral out very quickly. The main purpose here is to have separate DVR and watched status.

#6

This is unlikely to happen. In general we prefer to write code to improve the product as opposed to writing billing and subscription code.

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