Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
arstechnica.com
Roku users will be hit first.

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

  • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    3 hours ago

    Is it more intuitive to set up for remote streaming to friends…? That’s the use case here and as far as I know the answer is a big “no”.

    • hietsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      20 minutes ago

      Simple reverse proxy like Nginx PM or Caddy before Jellyfin server and that’s it? Yes, it’s also good to have some DynDNS domain but those don’t cost a thing. Then CrowdSec plugin to keep the bots away and look you’re homelabbing like a pro! Next thing you know you are building this all on top of hypervisor like Proxmox, configuring GPU passthrough and whatnot.

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 minutes ago

        Vs “just install Plex on any NAS from its built in appstore” that’s like 42 steps too many for the regular user.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      21·
      59 minutes ago

      If you have a static IP it’s super easy. If you don’t, it’s less easy, but you should configure Plex the same way if you don’t want to use their proxy, which lowers the speed anyway.

        • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          22 minutes ago

          forgot most of you here are americans, roku isn’t a thing in my country. everyone who i share to uses a pc, htpc, phone or tablet for that

        • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          12 minutes ago

          Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          14 minutes ago

          A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.

        • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          14 minutes ago

          If you want to try it I think you should be able to do it With a Raspberry pi or equivalent on their network running Tailscale, use iptables to forward all inbound traffic on the Jellyfin port from that device to your Jellyfin server which is also running tailscale. Connect their Roku using the pi as the address for Jellyfin. I’ve not tried this with Jellyfin but I had something similar working with a Minecraft server

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        1 hour ago

        Lol

        Edit: honestly, I could start itemizing why this person’s response is terrible, but all it feels like it deserves is “lol”.