This is what I do as well. Works super well
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Scavenger8294@feddit.org 3 days ago
for me the easiest option was to set up tailscale on the server or network where jellyfin runs and then on the client/router where you want to watch the stream.
Taggara@programming.dev 2 days ago
FoD@startrek.website 2 days ago
This is also what I do, however, each user creates their own tailnet, not an account on mine and I share the server to them.
This way I keep my 3 free users for me, and other people still get to see jellyfin.
Tailscale and jellyfin in docker, add server to tailnet and share it out to your users emails. They have to install tailscale client in a device, login, then connect to your jellyfin. My users use Walmart Onn $30 streaming boxes. They work great.
I struggled for a few weeks to get it all working, there’s a million people saying “I use this” but never “this is how to do it”. YouTube is useless because it’s filled with “jellyfin vs Plex SHOWDOWN DEATH FIGHT DE GOOGLE UR TOILET”.
aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For the users you have using Onn TVs, is Tailscale just installed on a device on the network or on the Onn TVs?
FoD@startrek.website 2 days ago
The onn boxes run android so it’s just installed as an app from play store. They connect with their own tailscale account. My server is shared so they see it. Then they install jellyfin on the device, punch in the hostname of the server given by tailscale and the port and then it connects.
I could not get my reverse proxy to let them use my local domain… I’m not smart enough and couldn’t figure it out but they are only using jellyfin so typing one address was fine.
aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank you for following up.