Wait a moment. I always thought that Plex’s servers only facilitate authentication (to verify your account) and discovery (to help your device find your server). They do not handle the actual media data. And if there is no Direct Remote Access, Relay usage is capped at 1 minute per day for free users. This looks like a cash grab to me.
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Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why would you expect this to NOT be paid? It requires them to be running servers to stream the media through, I wouldn’t expect this to be a free feature.
I dislike Plex for several reasons, but asking for payment for stuff that costs them money is completely justified.
nuko147@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It doesn’t require Plex servers, though. I do this on jellyfin for free.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How do you do this on Jellyfin? The only ways I’m familiar with is to expose Jellyfin to the internet or access it through Tailscale, would love to hear alternatives.
couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
My home connection is behind cgnat so I got a free VPS from oracle, install caddy on VPS, install tailscale on VPS and router, expose routes from LAN to tailscale network.
Now you can use caddy to expose, for example, a docker container (jellyfin) at 192.168.1.100 to subdomain.exampledomain.com with ssl cert provided by caddy.
VPS also requires some other stuff like ddclient and fail2ban.
I pieced this all together myself… it’s doable if you spend some time reading.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That exposes Jellyfin to the internet
lickmygiggle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Reverse proxy
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That exposes Jellyfin to the internet, so it’s my option 1.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s not that hard to get a reverse proxy up, get a free DDNS, and a SSL certificate from let’s encrypt.
www.linuxserver.io/…/2020-08-21-introducing-swag
This is a pretty solid one stop shop for handling all reverse proxy for jellyfin and other applications like sonarr, radarr, transmission, ombi and lists of others.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That exposes Jellyfin to the internet, so it’s not the same feature
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Why is this getting upvoted? Plex isn’t running a server. You are. Your computer and your media files are quite literally “the server” that is serving the files to you remotely. Plex is at best doing authentication.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
For remote streaming they do, here are their docs on it …plex.tv/…/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-r…
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Because he’s right. You can’t access your own server remotely without plex’s infrastructure (provided you don’t just set up that infrastructure yourself). You don’t need to open ports or anything. Your server reaches out to plex server, which creates an entry point to your network. Your stream is then either routed through their servers or possibly setup as P2P stream.
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s just not correct. Mate. It’s setting up a secure route from the client to your Plex server. It’s essentially doing what Tailscale does but just handling the client setup automatically via their Plex authentication. They are authenticating the connection and setting up the route from the client to the server. They are not handling petabytes of data people are streaming.
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Ok sure, they aren’t routing, just using P2P like I mentioned. It’s still not possible to access remotely without using plex services. This is what you are paying for. If you don’t want to pay for their auto-config remote streaming it’s easy enough to do it yourself.
tantalizer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I can’t back this up but I highly doubt that the media is played through Plex’ server.