Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoNo, 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?
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Jellyfin apps ask you for three things in order to login: URL, username, password.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Thanks, that clears everything up for me…
Now if you could set that URL from the server itself and not the client apps… Certainly I don’t think that’s an impossible task.
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
The app needs to know where to connect to. Jellyfin doesn’t have a centralised server like Plex