Comment on Plex ending support for Watch Together

• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bluh. I installed both but went with plex because it was a super easy setup. I’ll take another look at jellyfin.

  Also question: can I access stuff remotely via phone like with the plex app without any additional configuration?

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  • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not without additional configuration. You’ll need to forward jellyfins port in your router and get a dynamic DNS address. That’s not hard to setup though and there are good free dyndns providers like duckdns.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t expose Jellyfin to the internet

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      • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why not? Have had it accessible via the Internet for 4+ years without incidents

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      • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well, I do want to actually use it though and have my friends be able to use it just as well.

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      • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why not? What precautions would you need to take before doing so?

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      • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This should not be downvoted. You should not expose anything straight to the internet unless you know what you’re doing. Use a simple service like Tailscale to create a locally accessible VPN.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What if I’m using my pi hole with a static DNS address?

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      • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s only local (unless you‘ve set up your pihole to be accessed from outside your home network already). Locally you can easily access jellyfin from any device

        For remote access to Jellyfin you will need your public ipv4 address or a domain that points to it. Since in most cases your public ip isn’t static (unless you specifically pay for that), you’ll need a dynamic DNS address that regularly updates the ip address your domain points to. In case of duckdns you’d have a url like example.duckdns.org that always points to your ip.

        If you are unlucky however and only have a public ipv6 address (Dual Stack Lite; highly depends on where you live and what provider you have). I haven’t found an easy free solution to still getting remote access. The easiest I’ve found is getting a domain from cloudflare and using their tunnel. Worked well and I happened to have a domain already. Streaming media via Cloudflare’s tunnel is technically against their tos though.

        There are probably more elegant solutions but I have switched to a different provider since, which does offer an ipv4 address so I didn’t need to look into that any more.

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  • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tailscale is a great option for this if your user count is low (1-3).

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    • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I prefer ZeroTier but both work.

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      • notfromhere@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Never used them before. Looks like more business oriented. How do they work out?

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  • tiny@midwest.social [bot] ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not built into jellyfin but you can use net bird or tail scale to access jellyfin from anywhere you have those apps without exposing jellyfin to the public

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  • freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    there is a very easy to set up alternative using nordvpn (not free) + meshnet.

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