[lamasery]

> 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.

[ZeWaka]

Combine with a $5 VPS and nginix reverse proxy to make this true for any device, even ones without tailscale!

[542458]

Or Cloudflare Argo tunnels for $0/mo :)

[ZeWaka]

That's against their ToS.

[542458]

I was initially going to be dismissive because everything is against everybody’s ToS (ie last I checked it was against my ISP’s ToS to operate any sort of server)… but looks like cloudflare actually actively enforces this one, so yes my comment is a bad idea!

[lamasery]

I’d not put Jellyfin on a public IP, even indirectly. I’d be surprised if it’s not full of exploits.

[ZeWaka]

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.

[lamasery]

How's the bandwidth and transfer limits on that $5 VPS, would be my next concern? One approximately-perfect-Bluray-quality 4K movie can be north of 50GB, decent quality, still 20+GB. Very-high-quality 1080p is gonna be like 8-12GB for a movie, OK quality, 4.5-6GB.

[ZeWaka]

Only for outgoing - 2TB included, each additional TB is $1. It was 20TB included when I set this up in 2024, but they've since changed their policies.

If I used their (Hetzner) servers in the EU it's still be 20TB, but I prefer having the server 10 miles from my house.

Plenty fine with that pricing since I also use it to un-CGNAT services on my home server (I'd run this through Tunnels if it was significant)

Generally ~22GB 4k hdr muxes or ~8gb 1080p.

[lamasery]

Damn, that's decent, yeah that'd get you a ways. Imma stick with free peer-to-peer VPN via Tailscale because it's already working for me, but I can see the appeal of that.

[einsteinx2]

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).