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Ceo be like: “Hey, everyones leaving. We should milk more data from the idiots who stayed.”
Come to my jellyfish instance. The only thing I want you tied to is to my bedroom
qBittorrent does not.
Emby doesnt
The garbage took itself out. Much appreciated.
Jellyfin does not.
Setting up Jellyfin to be accessible outside of my home network has been a huge pain in the ass.
Not Jellyfin’s fault tho. I wish there was an easier way
I use tailscale and NPM to reverse proxy.
When I want to watch, I turn on the VPN and go to the app. Easy peazy
Tailscale could probably be easier but I wanted to make it easy for my parents.
I was trying to set it up via Reverse Proxy in Caddy. My stupid NAS has proprietary software and the only way to do it is in Docker but their version of docker has some wonky issues with ports.
Oh, I use caddy too. What gave you trouble?
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve tinkered with it but I plan on pulling it up today. If I remember right, it works fine if I launch it as a singular container by itself, but if I launch it inside a container with multiple apps, it says the ports are in use. I verified that no other app is using the ports. I checked in the CLI and it says containers is using the port. Very weird.
Following tutorials and researching online had been helpful by my NAS uses QNAP’s QTS operating system. It locks you out of many basic functions. I can’t install apps outside of its App Store unless it’s in a docker container, for example.
Many command line functions have also been removed so when I’m troubleshooting or looking for alternate fixes, I’m blocked out.
You nas doesn't support docker compose? Its kind of the only reason why you'd want to have several processes on the same container.
Ps.: can you ssh in?
I can use docker compose. I need them on the same container so they can see the other apps exist and direct traffic there. Or that I as my understanding.
I tried setting up Caddy on a separate container as Jellyfin but that didn’t work.
Would a docker-compose.yaml like this one work? https://privatebin.net/?1d1d30a1e92a974a#JDwvxcmJyjwmhir4YFvVrRGhn7fUJNqgTbrmgBYe1etC I just basically ripped that off my working setup. This sets up two containers that can see each other
It’s not easy trying to set up VPN or a reverse proxy, dynamic DNS and so on if you want secure access for more than yourself l, that is true. I hope they can figure out a way to make that process a lot easier.
Actually, using an LLM to walk you through the process of setting up jellyfin inside a docker container (and setting up the arr stack) and all of that makes things a lot easier than trying to figure it all out on your own.
Have to agree. I hate LLM but this is a good use for it.
Happy cake day! Thanks for the info!
That was a big reason I went with Emby. Not open source, but wasn't necessary to me, and I wanted a cloud connect function that it handled well. And not all devices have a Jellyfin app that's easy to install. My TV would require it to be rooted.
Yeah but good luck building out homelab these days. Too expensive
Cheaper than a netflix subscription. Especially if you repurpose the last PC you upgraded as a server. Jellyfin will run fine on 15 year old hardware.
Bro win 10 computers are essentially free thanks to microsoft's windows 11 requirements and any of them can keep up with transcoding. Add onto that any second hand sata drives and a sata controller than handles multiple parity drives for raid 5 and you've got a solution that is under the yearly subscription fee of ad-free netflix and a fun weekend project.
not the issue, storage price is
Hence my solution. You can get 2-4 TB drives for around $30 on ebay. Get a flexible RAID controller that can handle multi-parity Raid 50, ideally a second hand raid card. We're at a total of $230 in at this point, assuming you have a windows 10 desktop lying around.
This is not a high data speed situation. If you have 6 or more drives you can dedicate two to parity and now you will never have data loss despite buying second hand drives. Effective storage capacity will be 16TB, which is more than enough to store 100 full series and a few thousand movies at 1080p or lower, and raid 50 gives a speed boost above what your controller will likely be able to handle, and way above what is needed for even a quite large multi-user media server.
Data storage is still incredibly cheap. You're just confusing your needs and your wants.
stremio/nuvio + torbox since yall keep mentioning not storing anything longterm and deleting as you go
Can you guide my grandma to help her set it up? I'll give you her number.
Edit: Just want to say I appreciate the info still
So long as you don't need to stockpile old shows you never watch, you can get by on an old laptop and possibly an external drive.
My homelab started out on a Raspberry Pi 2b. Most of the hardware Ive brought online were dumpster specials someone else didn't want. It can be done on the cheap. Won't necessarily be reliable, but it can be done cheap.
you don't need to stockpile old shows you never watch
c/datahoarders feeling personally attacked
:-D
I'm in no position to toss to much shade at the data hoarder community. I'm personally sitting on close to 64TB of media I've collected over the years. In my case, most of it legitimately acquired, either by myself or by family, but still. It adds up and most of it hasn't been accessed more than once or twice.
Jellyfin isn't too demanding. I'm still running my whole media stack on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Its just a nuisance, I can sign up for tons of free email. What does this really accomplish?
How? Every email now requires a phone number, which I don't want linked. Every account someone who isn't me makes gets immediately frozen because they are on some dubious blacklist.
Where is this "free email" you are talking about.
The move is anti privacy. I bet they will only accept kyc emails. Like Google and Microsoft, which nowadays demand proof of ID in surreptitious ways. I have met already several big tech services that refuse emails from alternative providers.
My wife is slowly getting used to Jellyfin. We've already cancelled Amazon. More to follow.
Agree a combo of stremio and jellyfin for me, just for a backup. I pay for VPN and a debrid service. I generally browse and watch disposable content on stremio, but also like jellyfin picking up my regular tv shows and my repeat/keeping content.
Wife Acceptance Factor is key for these things. It was a chore to make mine understand why I was eliminating Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, etc., and have her start using my self-hosted services. Took le about a year, but now she loves just firing up FOSS apps and they just work. She does bug me every now and then about the UI on some of the apps, but nothing that will requires attorneys to get involved.
Stremio. And everything can be 4k hdr10
I do wish they had profiles though, and a queue separate from the library for that matter
Also Nuvio, a fork of Stremio that seems to modernize the interface a bit more.
Yeah, Stremio + SmartTube + CloudStream + my deGoogled Onn 4k TV Box rules.
Smarttube...is a hero!
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