Well I already have jellyfin running in a container, just have to figure out how to get mum's TV to work with it I guess
log in on a local IP and not the network name and it's working again. but I'll be moving to jellyfin from now
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Remember when Plex tried to sell you a subscription to use outdated versions of open source game console emulators?
Plex wants to be a profit-driven company, but their business model is piracy. They'll squeeze you for subscriptions, while making your experience worse to try and broker a peace deal with content owners.
idk I find $2/month to be very reasonable. I don't feel squeezed.
Setting up ddns takes 15 minutes for a professional (mostly setting a 1-line script to reload a simple url every ten minutes)
and poking a hole in the firewall takes maybe half an hour (since every router puts the relevant page in a different spot)
And for this you think it's reasonable to pay ~$25/year for the rest of your life? You're not wrong in the sense that you're welcome to choose your own values, but I … disagree with you on the value position.
I would be ashamed of myself and be tempted to leave the industry in disgrace if setting up DDNS and allowing a single port through a firewall took me 45 minutes.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh. I want the newbs to feel accomplished when it only takes them 2 hours to figure it out. 😉
But seriously, you and I have it on reflex, but there's merit to the notion that we also have our mise en place - we've read the manual, we've saved or memorized the script, already know our local equipment passwords, etc - all things we took the time to do before and now have at the ready.
To stream remotely from your own server?
If I chose to use Plex's
plex.tvservices to expose my server to the internet, that's one thing. But I have my Plex server exposed through my own infrastructure (NPM + Let's Encrypt), so fuck that shit.The $2/mo is for the Plex relay service. If you access the server directly it should be free.
It's not. Now you need to pay any time you want to connect to your server from outside of your LAN.
You can use ZeroTier to connect from anywhere. It only makes you pay to use the plex router/relay.
Would a VPN be a solution to that?
Yes, a VPN can resolve it. Depending on how you do it you may need to add a subnet or list of IPs to the local allow list like so. This also, for me, fixes my wifi subnet being treated as remote.
Sorry to have annoyed you.
Unforgivable, have a wretched hour and a half.