Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨kiol@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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Seems this just released 10 hours. Was mentioned in this other thread, but figured it was worth granting it’s own topic. Very Cool! I’m not the dev, but this is awesome.

Oh wow, repo is github.com/LLukas22/Jellyswarrm Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.

Working

Unified Library Access – Browse media from multiple Jellyfin servers in one place.
Direct Playback – Play content straight from the original server without extra overhead.
User Mapping – Link accounts across servers for a consistent user experience.
API Compatibility – Appears as a normal Jellyfin server, so existing apps and tools still work.

⚠️ In Progress

Websocket Support – Needed for real-time features like SyncPlay (not fully reliable yet).
Audio Streaming – May not function correctly (still untested in many cases).
Automatic Bitrate Adjustment – Stream quality based on network conditions isn’t supported yet.

🚫 Not Planned

Admin Functions – Server administration (user management, settings, etc.) won’t be supported through Jellyswarrm.----

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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Holy shit, sounds like this would enable people to have a community in which they every person has a Jellyfin and they each use all of them.

One person could specialize in documentaries and another in shows.

Combined, it would mean a huuuge library.

I wonder how high demand content would work. As in, if a TV show is watched a lot, could it be saved in multiple servers and the swarrm figure out who streams from what to balance demand?

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- kiol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Keep in mind this isn’t federation. It is a way to access multiple independent servers via reverse proxy.
  
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  - Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yes, but a group of friends could use it to set up a group Jellyfin, sharing their libraries
    
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- magguzu@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It seems like the libraries are server specific. So it’ll probably just be saved to whichever server owns the library you’re using.
  
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sudo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Automatic Mapping

If a user already exists on one or more connected servers, they can log in directly with their existing Jellyfin credentials. Jellyswarrm will automatically create a local user and set up the necessary server mappings.

If the same username and password exist on multiple servers, Jellyswarrm will link those accounts together automatically. This provides a smooth experience, giving the user unified access to all linked servers.

Really should audit the implementation of that feature. So when you first log in it automatically sends you’re credentials to every connected server?

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- princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I would assume it’s a hash but yes, it needs an audit.
  
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  - kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    to send a hash only, you’d need a modified jellyfin server that can accept a given hash for auth in place of the password. since this project doesn’t require a modified jellyfin server, it does in fact send the password directly, as seen here github.com/LLukas22/Jellyswarrm/blob/…/users.rs#L…
    
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- exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’d assume you need an admin account for every server and it uses that to create the users.
  
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  - athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Jellyswarm doesn’t create users or accounts. You give your existing Jellyfin credentials for the servers where you already have an account.
    
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guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Dude I just saw a post where someone was asking if something like this existed

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- kiol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yep, this was mentioned in that thread and it is so impressive it deserves a dedicated topic to promote itself. Seems it has only existed for a few hours!
  
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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I bet this could be used to load balance regional servers with a bit of tweaking. (I made Plex-sync a long time ago for a similar purpose)

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comrade_twisty@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Nice, this might finally allow me to have an English, German and French Library without having conflicts all the time.

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- N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You can already do that (somehow) with tags and libraries. There’s a plugin for that.
  
  But yeah this looks less complicated to setup and maintain !
  
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- kiol@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What sort of conflicts?
  
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  - comrade_twisty@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I constantly have issues with Sonarr or Radarr overwriting French originals with horribly dubbed versions because I have English as the default language, same for German originals.
    
    I would just love a way that would always prefer the original language if it’s one of the languages I speak - but that’s currently not possible.
    
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quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well that sounds like a security nightmare

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- kiol@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Haha, you certainly don’t have to host it at a public url over http.
  
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  - quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wait till you learn how many security vulns jellyfin has, and that you can’t put it behind basic auth due to further out stand bugs
    
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I feel like this problem should be solved via some form of federation within Jellyfin, but if Jellyswarm works well enough… I’m not gonna make a fuss.

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- kiol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Apparently someone else just released a Federation plugin 13 hours ago.
  
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  - xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Has this been tested?
    
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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Thats wildly cool… I’m checking it out tomorrow!

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sudo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I always thought this would make more sense to implement client side in the media player. But its probably easier to implement this way.

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illusionist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
How does it handle duplicate entries? How does it define duplicates?

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- FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Maybe each server shows up as a library. Like “Server 1 - Movies”
  
  Kind of annoying but less so than swapping servers and search should work
  
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  - illusionist@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re right! You can see that in the screenshots. Thx!
    
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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
/me needs friends 😪

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- Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  🤗
  
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Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I don’t use jellyfin but these seems cool as fuck…

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kiol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Here are some questions from Jellyfin-offtopic:

I wouldn’t trust it especially with the new DB coming out. No way Jellyfin’s own DB supports multiple servers. It would be up to the tool to keep track of everything. And I’m assuming only one person is supposed to run that thing on multiple servers.

How would this work when multiple people want to connect to others at the same time?
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thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Thanks! Giving this a go tonight

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Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box.

Working

⚠️ In Progress

🚫 Not Planned

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Automatic Mapping