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

• mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Guess what I didn’t have to setup with plex? That’s right, a reverse proxy.

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      • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        didn’t have to

        Now you do have to, unless you pay for Plex.

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• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Step one: you buy it and send it to me if you’re so bent on people running Jellyfin.

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m only bent on people running software on shit hardware. Roku is bottom barrel crap along with cheap TV sticks.

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• Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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