Plex Live TV & DVR "There was an unexpected error" fix

Some who use the Plex Live Idiot box & DVR characteristic will run into a message stating, "There was an unexpected fault." Unfortunately, instead of giving any helpful information almost the outcome, Plex will just nowadays a generic link to the forums. To brand matters worse, this issue can persist even after restarting the media server, but we've figured out how to fix the unexpected error in Live TV & DVR, at least in one scenario.

How to fix the "At that place was an unexpected error" bulletin in Plex Live TV & DVR

Plex unexpected error message fix

Nosotros've institute the unexpected error bulletin will popular up in Plex Live TV & DVR when something is incorrect with one of the sources that have been added. The fix hither is to reconnect to the source, restart the server, and then attempt to admission Live Television & DVR settings again.

The unexpected error message typically appears when users endeavor to access the Live TV & DVR settings in Plex. For us, nosotros would see a flicker of the normal settings page before the upshot arose. Our problem was that our DizqueTV Docker container was stopped, and Plex was trying to connect to it. Unfortunately, information technology wouldn't only let us delete the source and continued to show the error, even subsequently we restarted the media server several times.

The only set up we could find was to start the DizqueTV container again and allow Plex to connect to information technology. When we did this, the unexpected fault screen didn't prove upward and we were able to change the settings in the Live TV & DVR section.

Given the generic nature of this fault, it's possible that it may announced in other situations. The only surefire way to fix it if the higher up doesn't work is to delete the settings files for Live TV or reinstall Plex Media Server entirely.

Hopefully, the developers will make this message more helpful in the future. However, until so, the fix to a higher place may help ease users' woes.