Yes you do. It just does it for you including handling SSL.
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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoIt’s a very sensical statement. I’m not exposing a whole ass website on my own network just for remote viewing. With plex you don’t need to do that.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Inside the network you do, but not for remote access outside the network.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Outside the network you still have to open your server to allow plex cloud to access it and potentially tunnel your traffic through plex.tv if a direct connection doesn’t work. This happens automatically but it does happen
With Jellyfin you just have to supply your own relay, like Tailscale or wireguard, which does require more setup but is completely free, means that you can stop your media traffic from being funneled through services that harvest your data (which plex absolutely does), and doesn’t go to shit if plex.tv goes down
chisel@piefed.social 1 day ago
You can do the exact same thing with Plex, you just don’t need to since automatic remote streaming is built in. In fact, the article’s solution is literally Tailscale.
You can also bypass plex authentication on any ip range you choose, so if you add your local network and plex’s auth service goes down, it’s no big deal.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This happens automatically but it does happen
And that’s the key, it happens automatically and it just works. With jellyfin you have to expose the web server to the internet, or point an app to something else exposed on the internet. With plex you don’t. If you don’t want to (or can’t) a direct connection from your server to their servers, then their servers to your device is established. No VPNs, no reverse proxies, no port forwarding, nothing exposed to the rest of the internet.
abcdqfr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Let’scrypt and port forward. Sprinkle on some free ddns with a sync script/job to keep ddns pointing to your real public IP. Can even roll in some headscale if you’re feeling adventurous
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 day ago Feeling adventurous is exactly what you need if you decide to expose Jellyfin to the Internet (a reverse proxy adds nothing to security)
black0ut@pawb.social 1 day ago
You don’t need to do that with jellyfin either. It includes the website for convenience, but you can just disable it or completely remove it and have just the server.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
How do you communicate with the server outside of your network? You’d still need to expose those ports directly to the internet right? (excluding VPNs/reverse proxy etc)
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I mean, if you put restrictions on the requirement sure. At that point it kinda becomes a loaded question though.
If you remove the restriction, just use a cloudflare tunnel.
keyez@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yeah dont use a cloudflare tunnel for media streaming
keyez@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It is still an issue that is easier on plex which is why I run both because I can’t setup and troubleshoot vpns for all my family that has access. Plex is much easier on that way. Jellyfin is great but look what you need to mimic a fraction of plexs power 😆
HereIAm@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Unfortunately for a Plex style easy to share library you need it to be centralized, handing over a lot of power to whoever is controlling it.