They won’t even get to the login screen.
All my relatives seem to have Hisense VIDAA TVs. There’s a plex app on the store. Jellyfin would require an external device like a Chromecast or HTPC to use it.
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoHow so?
Yo dad, heres the login:
username: dad
password: Pa$$TheP0pIf it asks for a URL on the first screen input the following URL:
https://jellyfin.domain.tld/
If you (or a relative) can’t manage that, I’d be afraid to even let you handle a car or open a bank account.
Can’t imagine you relative doesnt also have to create a plex account somewhere to then be invited to the plex share or input the URL to request access.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 22 hours ago
I don’t disagree with you, at all. But what’s the $3/mo subscription you’re talking about? I haven’t had a Chrome/Firestick/whatever since like 2012, so I’m out of the loop
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s the “Plex Remote Watch Pass”. A new charge for something that used to be free. www.plex.tv/plans/
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
But now telling then it’s $3/month to watch my pirated movies? No bueno.
I lol’d at this I won’t lie.
j0ester@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The individual who owns the server just needs the lifetime pass. People connecting to it doesn’t need to pay now.
rumba@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Assuming you set it up for SSL, and you own and manage your own domain, and they’re using a computer. Easy. So for the 10% it’s cake.
How’s it look for the rest?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Oh cool so you’re ok with opening ports on your server to the internet with no authentication. Good for you. Most of us with the technical knowledge of hosting a media server know better.
Auli@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
And Plex your opening 32400 not sure what your argument is.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Oh no, Chinese hackers know I only like the first 8 seasons of The Simpsons!
They would, I suppose, were my Jellyfin available to anyone living outside of my own state via geoblocking. You can’t even connect to it from the country I host the proxy from, not that they’d do anything if they could, all of the data shared is read-only.
I would’ve just let my setup be open, but, like you said, most of us with the technical knowledge of hosting a media server know better.
MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 1 day ago
What’s not authenticated? Run it through nginx and cloudflare, what exactly am I missing?
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 day ago
github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
A reverse proxy won’t help (unless you’re doing authentication with it). A cloudflare tunnel would help, if it requires authentication.
MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 13 hours ago
Ah, let’s hope these get fixed then… 😬
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For the record, I fucking hate Plex.
But this is a disingenuous simplification of where the gap is.
Me, my brother-in-law, and friend all share our libraries with the same elderly relatives.
The GAP is that great grandma has to log in/out between servers to find content that may or may not be on an individual server. Plex lets you search/aggregate from all sources without having to jockey credentials and servers.
It’s not a giant ask. I heard a fucking absolutely brain-dead take that “that would require a centralized server which is against Jellyfins core ideology”.
So, I dunno. Maybe it isn’t YOUR use case, but it’s MY use case. Doesn’t make me a shill. I’m still pissed as hell.
But don’t fucking pretend that there is feature parity when there isn’t, and don’t accuse me of being a shill just because Jellyfin literally doesn’t support my use case. I WISH it did. I HATE PLEX.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’re responding to the same disingenuous argument you see all over Lemmy made by folks whose jobs are in the IT field.
That being said, why hate Plex? I’m sure, like me, you’re grandfathered in. Is it fucking new users? Sure. Sucks. Not everything is a battlefield, and they’ll eventually fuck me and then I will abandon them, it is what it is. But for now, the shit just always works with almost no tweaking from me. I really can’t ask for much more. Got my mom to watch The Wire because of Plex.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 21 hours ago
I stopped trying to use Plex years ago (like 10) when that shit was just painful… AND they wanted to charge me for the luxury of that pain.
I’m sure it got lots better, but it left such a bad taste in my mouth at the time I’ve gone without easy media watching instead, and tried all sorts of things.
Hopefully Jellyfin keeps improving. I’d rather donate to them every year than pay a sub to Plex.
Glad it’s worked for you though, and I mean that. When Plex worked for me, it was pretty good.
Marighost@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
I joined Plex a little at the end of 23, but only really started adding content early last year. I’m sort of glad I didn’t buy the lifetime pass, given the recent changes.
I’ve been able to share it with so many people (including tech-unfriendly family members). I guess we’ll just have to see what happens next with Plex, unless jellyfin becomes easier to set up for us less experienced home server folks…
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
What does this mean? I just have one Jellyfin server I put stuff on