Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

• discomatic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I got Jellyfin set up and available for streaming in less than two hours. Plex kept demanding that my friend buy a pass to download something, so I was like, nah. Jellyfin works flawlessly and is (in my opinion) a far superior option. I constantly had issues with Plex.

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• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you have a static IP it’s super easy. If you don’t, it’s less easy, but you should configure Plex the same way if you don’t want to use their proxy, which lowers the speed anyway.

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• mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  pretty easy with tailscale

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  • Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Explain how you connect your in-laws roku to Jellyfin with tailscale.

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    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      forgot most of you here are americans, roku isn’t a thing in my country. everyone who i share to uses a pc, htpc, phone or tablet for that

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      • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Roku is also a thing in Europe.

        Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.

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    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you want to try it I think you should be able to do it Raspberry pi or equivalent on their network running Tailscale, use iptables to forward all inbound traffic on the Jellyfin port from that device to your Jellyfin server which is also running tailscale. Connect their Roku using the pi as the address for Jellyfin. I’ve not tried this with Jellyfin but I had something similar working with a Minecraft server

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lol

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    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      well hello Mr. cranky 😅

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• hietsu@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Simple reverse proxy like Nginx PM or Caddy before Jellyfin server and that’s it? Yes, it’s also good to have some DynDNS domain but those don’t cost a thing. Then CrowdSec plugin to keep the bots away and look you’re homelabbing like a pro! Next thing you know you are building this all on top of hypervisor like Proxmox, configuring GPU passthrough and whatnot.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Vs “just install Plex on any NAS from its built in appstore” that’s like 42 steps too many for the regular user.

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