I have several services on my home server, most of which I access using Tailscale, and it works great. I had a couple services on Cloudflare tunnels in order to access them from devices that I can’t put Tailscale on.

Plex is going to start charging for remote access. So I figured now would be the time to migrate to Jellyfin. But using Jellyfin on Cloudflare tunnels is against their TOS. I have a Roku TV at a remote location that I use to watch Plex. I won’t be able to do that anymore. And I can’t put Tailscale on it to serve Jellyfin that way.

I was going to set up Nginx Proxy Manager to use my domain name for Jellyfin so I didn’t have to use Cloudflare tunnels. But in setting that up I found out that my ISP is double NATting me, and I haven’t been able to find a way around it.

So I’m left with two options: 1) buy Plex Pass so I can continue to stream remotely; or 2) get a VPS, run Tailscale and NPM on it and switch to Jellyfin.

I’m looking for a sanity check to make sure the VPS thing would work the way I think it would. If it’s running Tailscale then the double NAT would be a non-issue, correct? Is there another option that I haven’t thought of yet? Which of the two options would you choose?

  • chriscrutch@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thanks for mentioning that. I’ll have to look into it. If I could install Tailscale on a RokuTV I’d absolutely run it that way.

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      I haven’t seen no one mention it yet but you could simply buy a Rasp Pi and use it as a subnet router for your Tailnet.

      It’s how I set up a family members Jellyfin/NAS/etc which I can access all their devices by local IP address, and you could do for your Roku too?

    • SirMaple__@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      No worries. Better than reading that someone got hacked because they left Jellyfin wide open

      You could even run a travel router, mini PC or Raspberry Pi, run the VPN on it, connect the Roku to it over the onboard WiFi adapter. On the PC/Pi you’d force all the traffic from the Roku towards Jellyfin over the tunnel. You could even define the Jellyfin in DNS (/etc/hosts) so the internet will never even know you’re running Jellyfin. Something like https://raspap.com/ or even a openwrt travel router from the likes of GL.iNet would work.