Yeah, I have a docker compose yaml script you can baseline of off and help walk you through with my lessons learned.

And somehow you think that Plex isn’t exposing your server to the Internet for streaming while not on your local network?

Okay there Mr. Madison.

https://github.com/Georift/install-jellyfin-tizen

Samsung is being a bit of a dick apparently.

100% agree with the reverse proxy set up, it’s not hard but it is intimidating at first and just fyi, reverse proxy set up is a ton easier if you’re using swag with the drag, drop, run for a ton of apps including SSL certificate renewal.

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2020-08-21-introducing-swag

With that reverse proxy and SSL set up, no problems with the wife test or parent test and jellyfin for me at least.

It’s not that hard to get a reverse proxy up, get a free DDNS, and a SSL certificate from let’s encrypt.

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2020-08-21-introducing-swag

This is a pretty solid one stop shop for handling all reverse proxy with SSL certificate generation and renewal for jellyfin and other applications like sonarr, radarr, transmission, ombi and lists of others that are pretty much drag and drop configuration files if you’re not mucking with the application’s default ports.

Yeah, welcome to the easy, fast, cheap conundrum.

If you’re willing to do a bit of learning and asking the community for help if you get a little stuck, you’ve got a free solution, if not, which is perfectly okay mind you, then Plex is your solution and you have to decide how much you’re willing to pay.

And honestly, of you’re going down the home media route with friend and family, you’re going to want to set up sonarr, radarr, ombi, transmission with VPN anyways.

Yes. You’ll have to set up a reverse proxy, I use nginx, and get yourself domain, I use duck DNS, and get a SSL certificate from let’s encrypt if your wanting to steam to something like a Chromecast or Roku.

It’s not all that hard honestly and there’s a good guide here for general home media, including both Plex and jellyfin

https://www.simplehomelab.com/docker-media-server-2024/

If you don’t like the price there’s always jellyfin.

Got to say that I have been very happy with it.