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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)
submitted 1 day ago by Sl00k to c/[email protected]
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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't require Plex servers, though. I do this on jellyfin for free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

How do you do this on Jellyfin? The only ways I'm familiar with is to expose Jellyfin to the internet or access it through Tailscale, would love to hear alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

My home connection is behind cgnat so I got a free VPS from oracle (provides a public ip address), install caddy on VPS, install tailscale on VPS and router, expose routes from LAN to tailscale network.

Now you can use caddy to expose, for example, a docker container (jellyfin) at 192.168.1.100 to subdomain.exampledomain.com with ssl cert provided by caddy.

VPS also requires some other stuff like ddclient and fail2ban.

I pieced this all together myself... it's doable if you spend some time reading.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Reverse proxy

[–] [email protected] -2 points 13 hours ago

That exposes Jellyfin to the internet, so it's my option 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not that hard to get a reverse proxy up, get a free DDNS, and a SSL certificate from let's encrypt.

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2020-08-21-introducing-swag

This is a pretty solid one stop shop for handling all reverse proxy with SSL certificate generation and renewal for jellyfin and other applications like sonarr, radarr, transmission, ombi and lists of others that are pretty much drag and drop configuration files if you're not mucking with the application's default ports.