SpacePirate

Hey! I sent you a DM about it I was thinking we could have a call on MullvadVPNs jitsi aka meet.mulvad.net where others could join! If we can find a time that works for both of us we could send it here so others who are interested can join!

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I completely agree, Tailscale will not just solve your issues. If you want to have is as simple as possible for your users you are going to need to expose it publicly for your users. And the reason I posted the comment above is to share a solution that has worked for me to get my users "Smart"TVs to work. Honestly if someone where to make a service that provides a “plex networking” solution for jellyfin I think allot of people would consider using it and leave plex for good!

Yeah then this might not be a great idea for you, unless you have the possibility to fix a machine if you visit. But I want to make it clear this is not a fix all thing just trying to help :D

That doesn’t slove the problem if your Smart TV doesn’t support tailscale or something like Wireguard. Using another machine connected to a VPN like for example Tailscale/Headscale and then using ssh portforwarding allows you to access the service(jellyfin) on the device without support.

It would be like this:

Jellyfin <-- Tailscale/Headscale <— Machine forwarding the jellyfins port <-- Smart TV

This can be done with a command like this:

ssh -L 0.0.0.0:8096:jellyfin_tailnet_ip:8096 -f -N user@machine

If you have a machine at her place that is on most of the time you can have tailscale on that device and then make it ssh into itself with ssh portforwarding on!