Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve already started my journey to replace all streaming services with jellyfin anyway so i will be cancelling mine too.
This jimmy kimmel business just sweetens the deal.
got an old raspberry pi set up as a jump box with a tailscale vpn so i can remotely power up my pc from anywhere and watch anything i have downloaded. Just need to get a dedicated server and storage, either nas or internal in a larger tower. But for now its working really well.
got an old raspberry pi set up as a jump box with a tailscale vpn so i can remotely power up my pc from anywhere and watch anything i have downloaded. Just need to get a dedicated server and storage, either nas or internal in a larger tower. But for now its working really well.
cyberpunk is now.
Anyone have a guide for remote Jellyfin access running on a Linux server? Been struggling to get it working.
Look into:
Talescale for an easy but limited option.
Wireguard with a dynamic DNS service for something that provides more flexibility with a little set up.
Don’t open a publicly facing port unless it’s for an encrypted tunnel. If you don’t want to open your computer to a lot of threats. Always use an encrypted tunnel when opening something to the Internet.
Thanks. I previously setup Tailscale but couldn’t quite get it to work. I’ll keep troubleshooting or see if there’s other options.
Depends on how you want to do it: via a VPN like Tailscale, Cloudflare tunnel, etc.
Do you have a good, idiot-friendly, guide on how to set up JellyFin? I tried once but wasn’t able to get anything to stream.
I’ve had trouble getting Jellyfish to stream anything. The error message it gives you in the client GUI make it sound like the problem is client-side, but it always ends up being permissions on the server (for me, anyway).
I ended up having to move my media drive into /mnt/<drive> (rather than /mnt/<username>/<drive>) and allow Jellyfin to access that folder - the Jellyfin service needs permissions.
The Jellyfin log files will show you that is having trouble accessing the files of this is the issue.
The Voyager app wouldn’t let me edit my comment for some reason… So here’s the edit I was going to add.
I really dislike AI but the most concise set of instructions I could find was googling “Linux Mint drive permissions jellyfin” and following the instructions the AI spits out. Definitely read through the instructions and make sure they seem same first, tho.
Need to stream at home or away from home?
Me and my wife both have desktop PC. The Windows version just has an installer as one would expect. The Linux version I used is the variety you just unzip in a directory and run from there which is about as easy.
I have configured each machine to have a stable IP on the LAN and bookmarked it and if we want to watch each others content we just click on the bookmark for each others jellyfin.
Only at home.
This looks good! I will experiment with this when i get a more modern pi. Currently running pihole and tailscale on a 2012 pi1b
Oh! In addition, if you want to access it from a tv or mobile device you install the client on those devices and point them at the same IP and port. My lg tv has jellyfin in the store, firesticks have it, play store (i assume apple app store too) amd the server can be managed from there too.
You can set up users and allow each user to acces different content in the settings which is good if you have kids and want to keep them from watching john wick 😜
Perhaps its been made easier now as i don’t think i did much more than running the installer. My pc is on windows though, my server will likely be using some version of linux. I want to learn linux but need my main pc too much to make it a daily driver.
I used these instrctions for the windows installer
(Click the windows link there)
Run the installer (can set it as a service but thats only necessary if you want to run it on boot instead of after login. Afaik.)
Once installed you can access it via your local ipaddress:8096 (eg 192.168.1.100:8096)
From there you can head to management in the menus and set up your folders for movies/tv shows etc. You just make some folders somewhere on your pc and point it at those. Download all your content and organise it in there. Jellyfin is quite good at dividing things up into individual series and uses meta data to fill in names and thumbnails etc. And you can select the 3 dots when hovering over any thumbnails to edit the metadata or add custom thumnails etc.
I just tinker with it though. Decide what settings you want to use. I still need to set up https but need to look into self signed certificates and stuff first.
Hope that helps.
You have to run it as a service if you want it to run at all it has no GUI save for its web interface available when the service is running
kaidenshi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Aoostar makes some really great tiny NAS devices based on the Intel N100/N150 series, and they also have an AMD unit if that’s your jam (it’s mine). If you buy the one with built in main storage it comes with Windows 11 Pro installed but you can wipe that and install Linux or a dedicated NAS OS if you wish. Or just save money and throw a NVMe SSD in for the OS and a bunch of HDDs for media and go to town.
The best part is you can buy direct from Aoostar, no need to buy from Amazon though they are offered there too.
aoostar.com/collections/nas-series
I also like UGREEN’s NAS offerings, they come with their own custom NAS OS that supports Docker so you can run all your *arrs and Jellyfin and other server apps as containers. The web-based interface is like using a normal Linux or macOS desktop.
nas.ugreen.com
See you on the high seas, matey.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks for the info. These look brilliant! I am more AMD incljned also but ive read that in terms of transcoding media, Intel is better. I have time though. Not gonna buy anything until after christmas.