Requests

Requests let members ask for a film or show your library does not have yet. A request lands on your own Plex Watchlist; the bot itself never downloads or fetches anything.

How it Works

Members open /menu › Community › Watch › Add New and type a title; a typo is fine. A title already in your library is offered to watch straight away instead of being requested. Otherwise the closest titles in Plex's catalogue are shown one at a time, with Prev and Next to browse them, and Add this puts the right one on your Plex Watchlist. Your own Radarr and Sonarr, on your machine, fetch it from there, and it appears in your library when it is ready.

Your Requests

The card that comes back after Add this shows where the member's requests are: what is waiting, what else is in the queue, and Refresh to check again. A 🗓️ beside a title means it is not out yet, and it is fetched on the day it is. Notify me sends the member a private message the moment one of their requests is ready to play.

What You Need

Requests are part of Watch, so a server needs Watch set up first, through /menu › Other › Admin › Media › Set up (see Media Server Setup). The fetching is done by your own Radarr and Sonarr; without them, a request still lands on your Plex Watchlist for you to act on yourself. Everything stays in your own media library, never ours.

What it Costs

Nothing. Asbern is free: every feature on this page is included in every server, and no card is needed.

Related

• Media Server Setup — linking the Plex library you already run.
• Link Your Homelab — everything that runs on your own machine.
• Live TV — the live channels your Plex already carries.
• Run a Movie Night — a watch party, from setup to the first film.