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I'm in the throes of attempting a migration from Plex (lifetime pass, here) to Jellyfin, and my main issue is echoed elsewhere: It's a headache to set up secure external access. My users would either need a new account through some auth gate I'd have to set up & manage, or I'd have to wire everyone up through wireguard or something they'd have to remember a password for and blah blah blah.
Plex is the only thing my home server is sharing. I don't have anything directly exposed to the external internet. In any case I can think of, doing this "right" means extra steps (on top of new steps) for my current users, plus new security concerns & added user management for myself.
I got a Synology NAS and despite being a technical idiot I was able to set up my family with Jellyfin on Roku phoning home to my NAS.
Wouldn't this result in all your traffic being unencrypted?
Probably, I dunno. Technical idiot, remember? From a real life perspective, what are the consequences of unencrypted video files being shared to a Roku?
If it's only on your local home network, it's not a problem at all. When you say 'phone home', it makes me think maybe you're accessing it remotely over the internet, in which case it would be very easy for your ISP or anyone who is curious to see what files are being shared.
Real life consequences range from your ISP saying stoppit to reporting agencies flagging you as a distributor of illegal content and reporting you to the FBI.
Of course, this is me assuming the files you're hosting are copyrighted movies and things of that nature, and that you sweat the FBI at all. I dunno what country you live in.
Instead of using tail scale I set up Synology DDNS and a security certificate from Let's Encrypt. (I went back and looked at the tutorial I followed and that was one of the steps.) I'm pretty sure when I log in remotely it's via https. Does that also encrypt against the type of shoulder overlooking you're talking about?
You gotta understand, I'm not even at the beginning of the Dunning-Kruger cognitive bias spread. I do use a VPN when I'm browsing, but that's on a different machine from the Synology and not really relevant to what you were saying
Oh in that case I'm sure you're fine. Yeah your Let's Encrypt setup is handling your https certs so as long as you're seeing https you should be good.