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How to begin setting up a media center? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by agame@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine.

P. S: I usually use VLC on android and MPV on linux to consume the media.

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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

DDNS is only required for when you want to share it with other people. For accessing your own stuff from anywhere, there's tailscale. I set aside 30 minutes to read into it and set it up, but found myself with a working VPN between my phone and PC after just 3 minutes. And it's completely free for this use case.

[-] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

DDNS takes about the same amount of time to get running these days, something like Caddy + DuckDNS goes together pretty easy. Even for purely personal use, I use DDNS for media access and save the VPN for share access and admin work.

Either way works though.

[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I have DSlite on my home internet connection, which makes DDNS pretty much impossible. OP should check for that.

[-] mrfbarros@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't know how to access Jellyfin through tailscale on a Android tv that is not in the same network, and that wouldn't necessarily be sharing.

I think the most relevant thing is that using DDNS implies exposing to the internet which for many self hosters is a big no no. As well if you only want one or two machines , maybe tailscale can be a very easy way to setup.... I guess it boils down to the OPs needs.