Guardian

Plex lets anyone you share your server with stream from any device, anywhere. Nothing lets you hold back a device you don’t recognize before it starts playing.

I built Guardian to close that gap on my own server. Each new device waits for approval, and rules per person limit schedules, networks and the number of streams. I released it in September 2025; it has since been pulled more than 70,000 times from Docker Hub, and the people running it file the issues that decide what comes next.