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Jellyfin does not.
Setting up Jellyfin to be accessible outside of my home network has been a huge pain in the ass.
Not Jellyfin’s fault tho. I wish there was an easier way
I use tailscale and NPM to reverse proxy.
When I want to watch, I turn on the VPN and go to the app. Easy peazy
Tailscale could probably be easier but I wanted to make it easy for my parents.
I was trying to set it up via Reverse Proxy in Caddy. My stupid NAS has proprietary software and the only way to do it is in Docker but their version of docker has some wonky issues with ports.
Oh, I use caddy too. What gave you trouble?
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve tinkered with it but I plan on pulling it up today. If I remember right, it works fine if I launch it as a singular container by itself, but if I launch it inside a container with multiple apps, it says the ports are in use. I verified that no other app is using the ports. I checked in the CLI and it says containers is using the port. Very weird.
Following tutorials and researching online had been helpful by my NAS uses QNAP’s QTS operating system. It locks you out of many basic functions. I can’t install apps outside of its App Store unless it’s in a docker container, for example.
Many command line functions have also been removed so when I’m troubleshooting or looking for alternate fixes, I’m blocked out.
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It’s not easy trying to set up VPN or a reverse proxy, dynamic DNS and so on if you want secure access for more than yourself l, that is true. I hope they can figure out a way to make that process a lot easier.
Actually, using an LLM to walk you through the process of setting up jellyfin inside a docker container (and setting up the arr stack) and all of that makes things a lot easier than trying to figure it all out on your own.
Have to agree. I hate LLM but this is a good use for it.
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That was a big reason I went with Emby. Not open source, but wasn't necessary to me, and I wanted a cloud connect function that it handled well. And not all devices have a Jellyfin app that's easy to install. My TV would require it to be rooted.
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Yeah but good luck building out homelab these days. Too expensive
Bro win 10 computers are essentially free thanks to microsoft's windows 11 requirements and any of them can keep up with transcoding. Add onto that any second hand sata drives and a sata controller than handles multiple parity drives for raid 5 and you've got a solution that is under the yearly subscription fee of ad-free netflix and a fun weekend project.
Can you guide my grandma to help her set it up? I'll give you her number.
Edit: Just want to say I appreciate the info still
not the issue, storage price is
stremio/nuvio + torbox since yall keep mentioning not storing anything longterm and deleting as you go
Hence my solution. You can get 2-4 TB drives for around $30 on ebay. Get a flexible RAID controller that can handle multi-parity Raid 50, ideally a second hand raid card. We're at a total of $230 in at this point, assuming you have a windows 10 desktop lying around.
This is not a high data speed situation. If you have 6 or more drives you can dedicate two to parity and now you will never have data loss despite buying second hand drives. Effective storage capacity will be 16TB, which is more than enough to store 100 full series and a few thousand movies at 1080p or lower, and raid 50 gives a speed boost above what your controller will likely be able to handle, and way above what is needed for even a quite large multi-user media server.
Data storage is still incredibly cheap. You're just confusing your needs and your wants.
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Cheaper than a netflix subscription. Especially if you repurpose the last PC you upgraded as a server. Jellyfin will run fine on 15 year old hardware.
If you're happy with FHD (1080p) res, the requirements for both server and client are very low.
So long as you don't need to stockpile old shows you never watch, you can get by on an old laptop and possibly an external drive.
My homelab started out on a Raspberry Pi 2b. Most of the hardware Ive brought online were dumpster specials someone else didn't want. It can be done on the cheap. Won't necessarily be reliable, but it can be done cheap.
you don't need to stockpile old shows you never watch
c/datahoarders feeling personally attacked
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Where the fun in not hoarding old childhood shows and movies ;)
Jellyfin isn't too demanding. I'm still running my whole media stack on a Raspberry Pi 4.
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My wife is slowly getting used to Jellyfin. We've already cancelled Amazon. More to follow.
Wife Acceptance Factor is key for these things. It was a chore to make mine understand why I was eliminating Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, etc., and have her start using my self-hosted services. Took le about a year, but now she loves just firing up FOSS apps and they just work. She does bug me every now and then about the UI on some of the apps, but nothing that will requires attorneys to get involved.
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Stremio. And everything can be 4k hdr10
Also Nuvio, a fork of Stremio that seems to modernize the interface a bit more.
Yeah, Stremio + SmartTube + CloudStream + my deGoogled Onn 4k TV Box rules.
Smarttube...is a hero!
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This
I wouldn't even have a problem for paying for Netflix honestly, if the base plan was 4k.
But it's not.
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You don’t need to say “this”. It adds nothing. Just upvote and move on
This.
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Come to my jellyfish instance. The only thing I want you tied to is to my bedroom
Oh well, I hope gosuckadick2@proton.com and gosuckadick3@proton.com aren't taken yet...
Yep. Aliases all the way down.
Its just a nuisance, I can sign up for tons of free email. What does this really accomplish?
The move is anti privacy. I bet they will only accept kyc emails. Like Google and Microsoft, which nowadays demand proof of ID in surreptitious ways. I have met already several big tech services that refuse emails from alternative providers.
How? Every email now requires a phone number, which I don't want linked. Every account someone who isn't me makes gets immediately frozen because they are on some dubious blacklist.
Where is this "free email" you are talking about.
My wife gives me shit for downloading stuff from Netflix...This shit is why.
What do you ~~Jean~~ mean by downloading things from Netflix? How do you do that? Asking for a friend
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"Share your passwords, we don't care."
Not a problem. I dumped Netflix a long time ago.
The garbage took itself out. Much appreciated.
On iPhone, I can set it to an email alias and deactivate the alias. If they say they need to email me, I can reactivate it.
Not sure how easy email aliases are on other platforms. I don’t imagine it’s a big challenge for anybody.
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