Comment on Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network
frongt@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yes, a VPN. And dynamic DNS if you don’t have a static IP address.
Comment on Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network
frongt@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yes, a VPN. And dynamic DNS if you don’t have a static IP address.
Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus 6 hours ago
To be clear, your suggesting I set up my home computer as a virtual private Network server that I would connect to from the TV or device outside of my home network?
frongt@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yes, it works great for me. Probably not for a TV though, for that you’d probably need some travel router VPN client. But I don’t know how often you’d be at a random TV and need to get to jellyfin.
Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus 6 hours ago
Got it! I think this is the plan of attack I’m going with
towerful@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Yeh, exactly.
And the “dynamic DNS” part handles your public IP address changing with 0 pain.
You either buy a domain (like example.com), or there are free domain name providers that give you a subdomain (like mycooldomain.example.com) of one of their domains.
You then run an additional service on your home server that checks what the current public IP address is. If it changes, it notifies the DNS responsible for your domain/subdomain, which then points to your new public IP.
To connect to your VPN, you only ever care about “mycooldomain.example.com” and never the underlying IP address.
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As long as your ISP isn’t running CG-NAT of course 😵💫