Comment by lamasery
15 hours ago
> The only hiccup was when she tried to watch during one of her lectures. I had to explain that Jellyfin is only at home ;) (for now)
Tailscale got me outside-the-home Jellyfin with a grand total of maybe 30 minutes of effort, including signing up, getting my server connected, and getting it on my MacBook, AppleTV, and phone. I'd never used it before.
Combine with a $5 VPS and nginix reverse proxy to make this true for any device, even ones without tailscale!
Or Cloudflare Argo tunnels for $0/mo :)
That's against their ToS.
I’d not put Jellyfin on a public IP, even indirectly. I’d be surprised if it’s not full of exploits.
I whitelist my friends IP blocks, seems to work well enough.
No way in hell I'm convincing them to install tailscale or similar on their TV / router.
There was just another one recently actually. It was the final straw that convinced me to stop making my Jellyfin server publicly accessible (for my family abroad) and move to a VPN based solution instead (WireGuard or Tailscale I haven’t set it up yet).