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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
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[–] SpacePirate@feddit.nu -1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

If you have a machine at her place that is on most of the time you can have tailscale on that device and then make it ssh into itself with ssh portforwarding on!

Edit: You can also selfhost headscale and do the same as the comment below said

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

What in the goddamn fuck, sir

Step 1) Install tailscale (headscale also exists if you wanna fully self-host it) Step 2) Done, solved

[–] SpacePirate@feddit.nu 2 points 13 hours ago

That doesn't slove the problem if your Smart TV doesn't support tailscale or something like Wireguard. Using another machine connected to a VPN like for example Tailscale/Headscale and then using ssh portforwarding allows you to access the service(jellyfin) on the device without support.

It would be like this:

Jellyfin <-- Tailscale/Headscale <--- Machine forwarding the jellyfins port <-- Smart TV

This can be done with a command like this:

ssh -L 0.0.0.0:8096:jellyfin_tailnet_ip:8096 -f -N user@machine

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

My mom lives 900 miles away and she can barely turn a computer on

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago

I set up a free dns from duckdns.org and pointed it to my jellyfin server. All my parents had to do was to use that https://randomserver.duckdns.org/ as the server url in the jellyfin app.

[–] SpacePirate@feddit.nu 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah then this might not be a great idea for you, unless you have the possibility to fix a machine if you visit. But I want to make it clear this is not a fix all thing just trying to help :D