I’ve never tried installing Jellyfin but I am curious as to what makes it a pain for remote access. With Plex I just set my reverse proxy to point at the internal IP and port and I’m good to go. I assumed it would be the same with Jellyfin.
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EasternLettuce@lemm.ee 7 months ago[deleted]
stown@sedd.it 7 months ago
Lem453@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It’s can be exactly this with jellyfin as well. The minimal setup with no https is just that, run app, open port on router and port forward. If you want https it requires messing with certs manually or using a reverse proxy.
Plex can take care of the login for you by using their own servers to log you in. Non technical users will of course find this easier to use but now Plex has data on all your users and logins and possibly viewing habits as well. Proponents of self hosting and open source don’t like that aspect of Plex.
I personally think Plex will continue to add features that make it more attractive for someone like Netflix to buy. Those features are generally the opposite of what self hosted users actually want.
Plex has been around for a long time and has a decent amount of funding so they have better client apps. Jellyfin is catching up fast.
I’ve used my setup with web browsers, Android, iOS and it’s been very solid.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 7 months ago
but now Plex has data on all your users and logins and possibly viewing habits as well.
They absolutely have that. Plus they’ll ban your server just if they don’t like where you’re hosting it. I’ve also seen a few reports of them banning users hosting using residential connections sharing with a handful of friends and family, followed up with sending all the users emails informing them that the host was running a commercial piracy operation.
code@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Jellyfin wont get traction until thier apps on things like apple tv , roku etc work well. Ive been running it alongside plex for years and its still not there
stown@sedd.it 7 months ago
I guess call me an idiot because I didn’t know you could log into your Plex server from the official Plex site. I’v always gone the complete self-hosted route.
SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tailscale.
EasternLettuce@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 7 months ago
Caddy makes it a breeze. Just get a domain name, add an A record for your IP and put in this one line:
caddy reverse-proxy --from example.com --to 127.0.0.1:8096Just like that, remote access over HTTPS.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not even really difficult to do it the manual way and completely free. DuckDNS supports Let’s Encrypt DNS challenges now and it’s fairly easy to do. No paying for your own domain name.