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I’m afraid of exposing HTTPS to the open internet.
Tailscale
I'm expecting it to start enshittifying any day now
Pangolin then.
Headscale, Netbird, so many alternatives that do the same thing.
I'm trying to build a setup with a VPN
just use tailscale
From my in-laws' TV?
Yeah, some smart TVs have tailscale in the app library. NVIDEA streaming boxes usually do, for example. You can also use tailscale funnel and Cloudflare to give you HTTPS if you don't want to have everyone you know download tailscale.
Just put it behind a proxy and require a user cert? Bit of a burdon on the client side, admittedly
And effectively none of the Jellyfin clients support this....
So that's not going to work anyways on your friend's TV or their Xbox or their Roku or something else like that.
meh, how can that be :-( I'm still in the process of setting things up with jellyfin, didnt know...
Tailscale is, as far as I know, the standard way most people access Jellyfin from away from home. I didn't come up with "use tailscale" by myself. Somebody at one point told me to do this too.
Yes for yourself on a device that supports it but that doesn't address what my post stated.
The devices that I listed in my post are still going to run to the same problem in that sense that you're not going to be able to run tailscale on them either.
It is incredibly difficult to get jelljfin ypen into your friends or your parents or grandparents house without considerable setup and maintenance over time.
Not in my experience. I just had to click a few buttons. Once you set it up, it just works, with only the need to occasionally update the server.
Granted, I do have some experience in this area, so I might be doing the arrogant geologist meme. Maybe if it's so difficult to set up, I should do a tutorial one of these days.
Just posted on the top level, should have been here:
Random subdomain, wildcard cert