Coleslaw4145

I use a 3rd party client called Wholphin and it works great.

Also it helps to set up profiles in sonarr/radarr to make sure you’re getting media thats compatible with the devices that will interact with Jellyfin, and filter out formats that cause problems. I use Profilarr to load in community made quality profiles to sonarr/radarr and then i copy them and tweak them for myself.

Before i started doing this i had loads of problems with Jellyfin not being able to play stuff, and now everything runs perfectly.

The biggest discovery I made that was causing a lot of my problems was HDR formats. HDR10+ only really works on Samsung TVs for example. I dont have a Samsung TV, so anything I had that would try to play that content would come out a weird green/purple colour. Content with Dolby Vision Profile 5 would flat out not play on devices that don’t support Dolby Vision. Dolby Vision Profile 7 falls back to regular HDR10 when the device doesnt accept DV, so that works, but DV Profile 5 doesnt do that.

I was able to filter out HDR10+ and DV Profile 5 using quality profiles and all my playback issues disappeared immediately.

I run Opnsense in a VM in proxmox and I passthrough an Intel X540 (2x 10Gb NIC) card into it. I have 5Gb fibre and i get that full speed on Opnsense. The CPU is an Intel N100 and I never see any CPU spikes.

I’ve had it setup for a few years now and I’ve had no issues with it.

Set up Uptime Kuma on the VPS to monitor services there. Uptime Kuma can send you a notification if any of them become unresponsive.

Then use Healthchecks.io to monitor the VPS itself and Uptime Kuma.

You can set up to 20 monitors on the free tier with healthchecks.io.

Its a push monitor, so if the VPS/Uptime Kuma doesnt reach out to say its alive within the designated time interval you’ll get a notification, like a sort of dead man switch.

Theres a load of notification options for both healthchecks and Uptime Kuma including email, discord, ntfy, etc, etc.

This way you have no need for a seperate self hosted server, and you get healthchecks on yo healthchecks.