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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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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/

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[–] 13 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Why not? It depends on your situation, but if you have a static IP or a dyndns service, you can just open a port to your Jellyfin and reach it from anywhere.

You can also stick a reverse proxy in front of it, if you want to feel safer.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    or use tail scale / headscale

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Yes, but that's not always doable, e.g. on LG TV's.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    You can “proxy” tailscale networks, you’d need 1 device per household with tailscale running and accepting/advertising routes. Not sure if tailscale IP addressing works in that case though, and just doing it via private IP can get problematic with same network range in the household

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'd strongly recommend reverse proxy, some sort of security like crowd sec or fail2ban and sperate auth (authelia, aithentik) in front of anything you're opening to the internet. Just opening services directly up to the internet is choice I'd politely describe as brave.

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