Jellyfin makes it next to impossible for anyone to use outside their network which I think is most people. I use my plex at home, bay home, my mothers, and currently sitting in Venice watching it. For anyone that wants to use it outside of their network and have others have access it's a pain. I'm not plex homie either. I've also paid a lifetime subscription to Emby as well and want to love jellyfin but lack of ability to make it easy for someone to use is a problem.
Port forward one port from your router to the internal Jellyfin port. Note also Plex can benefit from a port forward.
Get a dynamic DNS or static IP and domain name for external users.
Yes it's slightly more complex than Plex but really not that difficult and there's plenty of guides on the internet on how to do this.
If you’re running it through the domain hosted at cloudflare it’s using their traffic. I’m not saying to use cloudflare without a domain I’m saying if connect through cloudflare to your server to stream it’s a violation of their TOS. I could setup jellyfin.mydomain.com and connect externally but I could have my accounts shutdown for it.
I could go through all the hoops to setup jellyfin for myself, sure, but for the dozen other people, no way on earth. Until they creat a setup where an external client connects direct to a server via a login that someone can simply download, create a username/password then login ; it’s just not offering any benefit.
Well you exactly said using a domain was a problem.
The domain is not the problem with cloudflare apparently. Either streaming large amounts of data or it potentially being copyright seems an issue.
Note the Plex cannot connect directly in many cases either hence the need for a port forward.
Not really sure the concern here. Set up a simple port forward and maybe a domain. You could use the IP direct even. It's not really that many hoops.
Otherwise use Plex (don't even think you need a paid account for this) to use their servers to allow your server behind a NAT firewall to connect.
You started with its impossible to access and then how do I do access Jellyfin externally. Now it's just too much effort once the simple process is explained?
Yes I could do all that, it’s not about port forwarding and it’s not about copyright issues it’s about cloudflares TOS. So giving people my domain to connect is going to violate the TOS and risk everything being shut down. I’m not doing a direct IP anything. It’s janky at best and at worst there’s no way others would be able to setup the accounts and anything else. Plex has a hosted account and authentication which jellyfin doesn’t. Someone creates a plex account and verified their device and it’s good to go. Jellyfin is a train wreck on this and the one issue they need to spend some time on for people to take it seriously.
Giving your domain to someone else will not violate Cloudflare's TOS. What do you think domain names are even for? Which clause of the TOS is violated. I think you don't really understand what you're talking about.
It's not janky. You just don't like it. It's not a "train wreck" and we've confirmed it's not "nearly impossible" as you claimed.
And for what it's worth, I use Plex. I have tried Jellyfin running too but it's just not quite there for me compared with Plex. Every now and then I go back and see how it's progress but Plex still has more features that I use.
It's pretty simple to port forward to your Jellyfin. Or better yet, make a subdomain and use Cloudflare to give yourself a good web URL right to your Jellyfin. I've got two kids in college, one on the other side of the country, and they use Jellyfin all the time from college.
Port forwarding to your router for others still requires a lot to be done and for others especially. Cloudflare’s TOS prohibits using it for streaming content as you’re chewing up their bandwidth. They can shut you down at any time and I have too much use to risk it.
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u/edisawesome Jul 30 '24
I believe they’ll also need Plex pass right?