What’s your go too (secure) method for casting over the internet with a Jellyfin server.
I’m wondering what to use and I’m pretty beginner at this
Set up a VPN, use PiVPN
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My router has a VPN server built-in. I usually use that.
OpenVPN into my own LAN. Stream from there to my device.
With wireguard i set up an easy VPN, then vpn to the home network and use jellyfin.
If i cant use vpn, i have Jellyfin behind a caddy server with automatic https and some security settings.
I use LSIO container stack so SWAG for the proxy. They have really good documentation and active discord docs.linuxserver.io
no idea how safe or secure but i use cloudflare tunnel to point my jellyfin port on my computer
Someone mentioned above that cloudflare will ban you for streaming through their tunnel. Just be warned.
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Headscale server on cheap vps with tailscale clients.
I'm trying to self host navidrome in docker with a cloudflare domain and reverse proxy on the same network. Still fiddling myself since I keep getting a 403 cloudflare no access error.
Essentially, using cert provided by cloudflare where they proxy to my ip. From there the reverse proxy routes to my service. If I'm understanding it right, anyone with my domain would only see cloudflare ip instead of my own. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I'm still learning this stuff as well.
Prior to this, I was using tailscale which worked fine but I'd have to connect via tailscale everytime and some instances, it wouldn't connect properly at all.