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Does Jellyfin have remote play? I've had a lifetime PP for years now, but most of my users don't. I will be installing Jellyfin tomorrow to run parallel until it can be a full replacement, or just forever.
I just was asking someone on here a few weeks back if switching off Plex while already having a PP was worth it. I think the gist was no rush since it's working, but this news is my canary.
As long as you have PP, users streaming remotely from your server can do so without PP (or the mobile app unlock). The client user charge is only for accessing servers that don’t have PP. Still insane they’re charging anything at all for streaming private content from a private server to a private client though.
Thank god for jellyfin. I have a feeling plex would have gone a lot harder with this update if there was no competition.
I missed that part of the article and had a user point it out. Still really dumb of Plex to charge more for something that has little overhead for them, greedy assholes.
You can enable remote access through firewall rules, port fwding etc but I haven't done that yet. There's a service called tailscale that allows remote access to almost any app externally, works really well. Only drawback is that if you're on mobile, the tailscale app needs to be running for access to work
I use tailscale and nzb360 to remotely access my arr suite and Plex, so I'm at least a bit familiar with it. Getting my other users setup with it might be a bit tougher, but not impossible. The fact that it's doable is a good enough jumping off point.
Apple tv has a tailscale client, as does android. Both also have jellyfin clients.
I don't think roku has either.
Roku can die in a fire, so that's fine. I'll need to do a little messing around and see what's up.
You have to set it up yourself. It does not have remote access through someone else's servers like Emby and Plex do.