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FFS Plex, the server is on my local network (no.lastname.nz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by BlueEther@no.lastname.nz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Well I already have jellyfin running in a container, just have to figure out how to get mum's TV to work with it I guess

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sorry to hit you with a random question, but since I'm in a similar situation: are you using Tailscale to remote stream to your parents, or how do you get that working seamlessly with Jellyfin?

[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately I can't help in that regard. I keep everything local/unexposed so my solution for them was just running Jellyfin at their place. I was already rsyncing some stuff to a NAS I set up for them (and vice versa), as off-site backup. Since the files were already there it made the most sense to just give them their own instance.

[–] tea@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not the guy, but I use a domain I bought from cloudflare with a cloudflare tunnel on my network. Not as secure as a VPN like tailscale, but doesn't require setting up a VPN for my friends and family's TVs so they can connect to the server while keeping my actual IP hidden and without needing to do any port forwarding.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is a helpful. This sounds like a way, even if I'm still in the "hmmm, yes, I recognize some of those words" stage. Maybe I'll look for a detailed guide.

I admit, though, the details of how to do this are pretty hard to imagine for me - networking and tunneling seems very technical. Before I can jump off the Plex enshittification train, I just want a way to share my media with tech-illiterate family without complex setup on their end.

[–] tea@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, I'm a technical person, but not a web developer and so this was all new to me until very recently. Good luck!

The way I think of the cloudflare tunnel is very similar to a VPN into your system from outside, but for web application traffic specifically.