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.

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[–] 42 points 6 months ago (12 children)

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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  • [+] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    To be fair, the vast vast majority of families would throw a fit (or just go back to Netflix/Spotify) if they have to put on wireguard to access jellyfin or a navidrome server for streaming while they are out and about.

    We on Lemmy tend to extensively overestimate tech literacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Yeah that's why I ended up doing a reverse proxy for mine, and got a better router to handle security (unifi cloud gateway fiber). Family just clicks a bookmark or opens an app and it's there. No fuss.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    I don't think it is, there are differences in their terms for these tunnels and other services. I don't recall the specifics, but I did look it up before I set up the same thing.

    I think there was something with the tunnel not actually running on the CDN.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Give it time. I was very careful to setup my tunnel for media streaming like those guides, disabling any sort of caching, etc. and they killed it 2 months ago.

    Ended up just getting a cheap simple VPS and running Pangolin myself instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I have been using CloudFlare tunnel to stream Plex, Jellyfin, and now Emby (of the three, I prefer Emby for now) to a couple of family members, and I haven't been pinged yet. I will look into Tailscale as an alternative or backup route though, just in case.

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