Host both. Keep plex up for your gma, Jellyfin for everyone else. Tbh Jellyfin is also pretty intuitive.
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Surp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I just wanna get rid of Plex so bad but jellyfin isn’t going to work for my grandma…
Joelk111@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Surp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The people asking why confuse me…y’all acting like jellyfin is easy to use on an off-site tv when it’s literally not for non tech savvy people. I don’t understand why jellyfin just doesn’t nut up and make an android tv client or something?
Xanza@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
My 67 year old Mother has been using Jellyfin for years via Chromecast. Change the TV input to Chromecast and pull up the Jellyfin app. And that’s it. She never leaves Jellyfin and the Chromecast is never shut off, even if the TV is.
It’s amazing to me that you fanboys pretend like Plex is easy to use but Jellyfin is somehow not. It’s generally the exact same interface.
I don’t understand why jellyfin just doesn’t nut up and make an samsung tv client or something?
Because application development is expensive, and they’re open source–not funded by corporate interest like Plex. What exactly about that is difficult to understand?
Surp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lol bad day huh
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
If your grandma can handle torrenting over VPN, then she can probably handle Jellyfin.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Grandma probably doesn’t do the actually torrenting herself, chances are OP has an overseerr or jellyseerr type of setup, grandma makes the request and things just flow.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
if my parents can navigate it your grandma can :)
FoD@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
I understand. I have converted fully to JF which required people to get onn players, and tunnel into my network and it was a lot of work on my end too.
Do what works for you and them.
sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
You can run them concurrently and let grandma continue to use plex.
wheezy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I’ve heard people had luck with Tailscale playing nicely with non Plex options. I can’t say I’ve tried it. Though I do use Tailscale. Essentially if you setup Tailscale for Grandma it’ll be like she’s sitting on your local network. Even better, set it up on her router and you can literally debug all her Internet problems if you can ping it.
Beyond that a raspberry pi with a battery backup on a 4G subscription connected to the router. That would be the ultimate “grandma” setup. But I digress.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
The irony of not wanting to use Plex and saying to use Tailscale to let you use jellyfin is just too good.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why? It’s been much easier for me
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Grandma? Pls send money.