Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Sl00k@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[-] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

My home connection is behind cgnat so I got a free VPS from oracle (provides a public ip address), install caddy on VPS, install tailscale on VPS and router, expose routes from LAN to tailscale network.

Now you can use caddy to expose, for example, a docker container (jellyfin) at 192.168.1.100 to subdomain.exampledomain.com with ssl cert provided by caddy.

VPS also requires some other stuff like ddclient and fail2ban.

I pieced this all together myself... it's doable if you spend some time reading.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago

That exposes Jellyfin to the internet

[-] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yes exactly. What do you think plex is doing?

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Using a relay server to separate online from home connection

[-] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't see anything in the linked article about a relay server

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