I just finished setting up my own Jellyfin server. Lately I’ve been getting into using open source software and this weekend I thought it would be nice to self host on an old thinkpad I had from my college days. There were a few roadblocks I encountered, but ultimately I got it working. Now with the Finamp/Jellyfin app I can have a Spotify/Netflix-like experience completely free (well minus the domain name cost). I highly recommend it if you have been thinking about doing it for a while like I was. I’m so glad we have open source software like Lemmy and Jellyfin available to us.
Edit: Thanks to everyone who suggested not using Cloudflare tunnels. I’m sure they would have got me eventually. I am now successfully running Jellyfin with Pangolin and couldn’t be happier.
Just keep in mind. It is against cloudflare’s TOS to use it for media streaming, plenty do and most don’t have an issue. But if you try to share access and there is excessive traffic, cloudflare may shut you down.
You can look into running pangolin on a small VPS or just opening the ports and using your home IP (of course behind a HTTPs proxy)
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And reverse proxies are overkill anyway unless OP’s planning to allow lots of tech-illiterate people access who will never know how to import a Wireguard config file or even what any of those words mean.
