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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cloudflare tunnel and a domain name will stream Jellyfin to any device while delivering a decent amount of safety.

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is against Cloudflare TOS to stream video through them.

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No it’s not. It used to be. They removed that part of the TOS about video streaming back in 2023.

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      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s not completely gone, it’s just that now they offer you a way to do it, here’s some doc about it:

        Finally, we made it clear that customers can serve video and other large files using the CDN so long as that content is hosted by a Cloudflare service like Stream, Images, or R2

        Source: blog.cloudflare.com/updated-tos/

        some users attempt to misconfigure our service to stream video in violation of our Terms of Service

        Source: …cloudflare.com/…/delivering-videos-with-cloudfla…

        In short, streaming videos hosted on your server is still against TOS, but they now offer a thing called Stream where you can host videos to be streamed without violating it.

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m assuming you don’t just stream home made movies

        Stemming pirated Covent is against tos

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  • bktheman@awful.systems ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can you elaborate? I’ve been trying to find a way to expose jf to the Internet safely without a VPN, and I’m getting mixed messages from people.

    I just got a cloudfare domain the other day actually.

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It depends on how you’re hosting Jellyfin. The easiest and most common way is via Docker in some form. You can also install a docker image of Cloudflare tunnel making sure it’s on the same virtual network as Jellyfin (I think it will by default). However you’re running Jellyfin, Cloudflare tunnel will need to be able to reach your local Jellyfin install.

      Create a tunnel in the Cloudflare zero trust dashboard, create or edit the config file for your Cloudflare tunnel install using the code string from the zero trust dashboard, your tunnel will attempt to connect to the Cloudflare servers, when it does, you have a secure tunnel. Then you can add hostnames on the zero trust dashboard, using your local IP addresses and ports. For example, jellyfin.yourdomain.com points to 192.168.1.10:8096. The tunnel connects your local IP to the routing from your domain.

      Be careful to not open this up to apps that don’t have security in some form at least. There are ways to improve security on your tunnel end with SWAG and such. And I recommend turning on the security tools in Cloudflare so your domain can’t be accessed outside of your country at the least, and maybe even whitelisting IP addresses for even more security.

      SpaceInvaderOne on YouTube has a good video on creating a Cloudflare tunnel via Unraid. But everything is much the same in regular docker. I’m sure there’s good videos on doing it however you’re hosting Jellyfin. Feel free to reach out with questions, I’ll gladly help if I can.

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      • farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        thanks for this

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      • bktheman@awful.systems ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Amazing thank you, when I get time to sit down with this I will probably have more questions!

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s against Cloudflare TOS to stream video.

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      • bktheman@awful.systems ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        At all? Even just using their reverse proxy?

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A cheap streaming stick might work

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