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Due to all the enshittification of the streaming services, I decided to opt out of it all by selfhosting Jellyfin with all of my media on my NAS. Get to it from anywhere with tailscale.
I did the same for a while but then I was on Holliday in Italy and it was painful trying to get the internet fast enough to stream my media over tailscale.
So now instead, I just keep everything on a laptop running Kodi and if I'm going somewhere, the laptop goes too. No worrying about internet connectivity or bandwidth. Just content ready to go.
I get that this doesn't work for everyone's use case. But I thought I'd share anyway.
I dunno if jellyfin does it but I just sync shit with Plex to my phone. Works great. I don't need to stream it. My progress is saved whether I stream or sync.
The great thing about self hosted is you can just download your stuff. No "you haven't been online in 3 days so you can't watch this video on the plane" nonsense.
Depends on your HW and line speeds, if you have somewhat slow speeds you need to transcode s lot and that will hot your system quite hard.
That's my same setup, it's working great with the addition of sonarr, radar and jellyseerr to easily nab the files I want.
Any recommendations on tailscale setup? I've wanted to do this but have been weary of opening it up to outside my local network. Currently running it all on proxmox.
Tailscale is a point to point VPN so you don’t open anything to the outside.
Install it on both devices; log in on both devices.
There is no step 3.