no, tailscale is still the easiest option.
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BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoDoes jellyfin have an easy way for remote streaming? I have a couple dozen people on my Plex server, most not very tech savvy, so setting up tailscale and running remote that way isn’t an option. I have a Plex pass so I haven’t been screwed by Plex yet, so I’m not rushing to get out, but I could see myself running both.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Bummer… unfortunately, that’s a deal breaker for me to completely drop Plex. Maybe someday.
db2@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
[deleted]AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Can you fly out to my MIL every time her router breaks and fix it for her?
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Editing your post like this instead of engaging in conversation is so childish, grow up
three@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Holy… you’ve been BTFO in the arena of intelligence I’m afraid…
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So I don’t get it, I have mine up with a domain without tsilscale… The clients are quite happy wherever. I don’t even see that much “crawling” traffic that goes to the domain, most just hit the server by ip and get a static 401 page that the “default” site is hard coded to give out.
astro@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
At some point, somewhere on the internet, someone authoritatively claimed that tailscale is the one and only acceptable solution to getting your jellyfin server outside your LAN and it just kind of took root. nginx has worked perfectly fine for me.
Taldan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m so confused why so many people think a VPN is the best solution. It’s easy to implement, but hardly optimal, and certainly not the only solution
priapus@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
You could just get a domain and set up a reverse proxy.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All possible, but currently I have lifetime Plex pass and just need to share with people I want to share with. No extra config. Once Jellyfin can do that or something similar, I’ll look at jumping ship. Until then, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
priapus@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Fair enough. I doubt Jellyfin will ever offer something like that. Its designed to be completely self hosted and not rely on a central server, which I dont see changing.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Once Jellyfin can do that or something similar
Once Jellyfin does that then it’ll be time to look at jumping ship to something else, because that’ll be the indication that Jellyfin is going down the same road as Plex.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The first one, yes. That’s what I do. But IIRC hosting media via cloudflare tunnels goes against the TOC and they reserve the right to ban users over it
madnerds@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
They changed their TOC a while ago, the only thing they have in there now is boiler plate stuff about not hosting pirated content.
www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/terms/
You agree not to, and not to allow third parties to use the Services to … post, transmit, store or link to any files, materials, data, text, audio, video, images or other content that infringe on any person’s intellectual property rights or that are otherwise unlawful;I just set up a cache rule to ignore my jellyfin subdomain and they won’t ever care about me and my half dozen users.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh that’s good news! I really only use it for myself, so that sounds like I can stream my music without worrying
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I set mine up with HAProxy for TLS offloading and ACME for the server cert. Restrict your access to just your country/region by GeoIP and you are pretty good to go.
oakey66@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I moved away from plex as well. I do have remote access but had to set up Tailscale on the accounts that access it. It’s a bit of a hassle initially but works well.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes-ish, it’s harder for you than the users. But you will have to secure a URL and they will have to remember that URL. Also there’s some security issues with some unsecured endpoints on Jellyfin. That said I have mine out there exposed to the net and am comfortable enough with it.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I already have to expose my Plex Media Server with a Tailscsle funnel (for IPv4 only) for IPv6 I use my Synology NAS reverse proxy which can be accessed globally.
I have been maining this setup for years now that I forgot if I can access my PMS outside without either those solutions lol (I am GGNATED but IPv6 works fine as stated).
The main thing here is that I don’t need my users to do anything, they just open the app and access it, no need to remember IPs/URLs or install VPNs to my server… Is that possible with Jellyfin as well?
Xanvial@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes you can do the same thing for Jellyfin. I use Synology ddns and setup subdomain in reverse proxy to jellyfin port. For tailscale, I previously use this but needs to add the jellyfin port after the tailscale IP.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, there’s not centralized host server to connect your users with your server. They need a fixed IP or URL to access your server from outside your network.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
So how do they access from, let’s say a Smart TV/Android TV device?
Gonzako@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have mine behind a caddy reverse proxy that forces https. I think that handles most sniffing concerns