Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That exposes Jellyfin to the internet

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      • couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes exactly. What do you think plex is doing?

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  • lickmygiggle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reverse proxy

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That exposes Jellyfin to the internet, so it’s my option 1.

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      • lickmygiggle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nope.

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That exposes Jellyfin to the internet, so it’s not the same feature

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      • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And somehow you think that Plex isn’t exposing your server to the Internet for streaming while not on your local network?

        Okay there Mr. Madison.

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      • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        My dude if you are connecting from outside your local network you are “exposed” to the Internet in some way. What magic are you thinking Plex is doing? Is someone hand deliverying the packets via USPS?

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