After 14 years with Plex, I finally moved my video library to Jellyfin. Why rising costs, feature restrictions and digital ownership pushed me towards FOSS.
So all the bad things of both, still a proprietary product that you can funnel your cotent through servers you don’t control while simultaneously not being plex.
Yeah, via an Emby Connect account through their server infrastructure for the initial connection.
Does This Mean My Streaming is Passing Through the Cloud?
No, all connections are direct from your devices to your Emby Server. The sole purpose of the Emby Connect feature is to help your devices locate your Emby Server so that you don’t have to set it up yourself.
I used it in the past, but moved off when I started self-hosting more than Emby. I now have a cheap VPS at Digital Ocean and a Pangolin droplet to handle any web apps that I need to share a remote connection for (like Emby and Jellyseerr), without having to bother with VPN setup. Works like a Cloudflare Tunnel, but without the cloudflare crap.
So basically if I slap emby on an open port, and point my domain to my IP, it’ll work just the same. Connect is just for people without static IP addresses?
I ask because most people say you can’t put JF on an open port and call it good. Not safe.
I only personally have experience with jellyfin, but the docs of Emby look to support the same remote access as Plex (without the TURN server).
So essentially you can use a login instead of a server IP, but it does require port forwarding or upnp on your router - which you may already have enabled.
Plenty of frothing about how jellyfin is a non starter because all 47 of my grandparents can’t stream Snakes On A Plane from my server without needing to know how to spell internet.
So all the bad things of both, still a proprietary product that you can funnel your cotent through servers you don’t control while simultaneously not being plex.
But also benefits of both, reduced cost with easier remote setup, while simultaneously not being plex
Wait, does emby do remote access similar to Plex? And without VPN like JF? That’s literally the only thing keeping me on Plex.
Yeah, via an Emby Connect account through their server infrastructure for the initial connection.
I used it in the past, but moved off when I started self-hosting more than Emby. I now have a cheap VPS at Digital Ocean and a Pangolin droplet to handle any web apps that I need to share a remote connection for (like Emby and Jellyseerr), without having to bother with VPN setup. Works like a Cloudflare Tunnel, but without the cloudflare crap.
So basically if I slap emby on an open port, and point my domain to my IP, it’ll work just the same. Connect is just for people without static IP addresses?
I ask because most people say you can’t put JF on an open port and call it good. Not safe.
Emby is based on jf from years ago. Is it safe?
I only personally have experience with jellyfin, but the docs of Emby look to support the same remote access as Plex (without the TURN server).
So essentially you can use a login instead of a server IP, but it does require port forwarding or upnp on your router - which you may already have enabled.
Also you dont have to be lumped in with the frothing at the mouth Jellyfin users.
Beats frothing for a company, if I gotta froth
It’s only frothing if you insist that installing tailscale on your grandma’s DSL modem is the best way to share home movies
Funny enough I’m in the “open it to the wan just practise basic web access hygiene” camp, I hope that makes me at least a little frothy
Plenty of frothing about how jellyfin is a non starter because all 47 of my grandparents can’t stream Snakes On A Plane from my server without needing to know how to spell internet.