I got a Synology NAS for my children’s photos and wanted my music to be available in our LAN as well. Jellyfin looked good and is open source so I gave it a try. I am very happy with Finamp as a mobile app to play and sync my library.
I run it on my TrueNAS Scale server, very happy with it, works as expected
I use NetBird to access it from anywhere, and to share my Jellyfin server with my friends and family
I didn’t know Netbird. Do you selfhost it as well?
Good question, good to see how others do it.
Mine: A well specced debian server in the garage running a crapload of stuff, including arrs and Jellyfin with Jellyseer, all in docker containers. Playback via debian laptop or Windows desktop using the official apps, and the tv paired with an Amazon Fire dongle running the Jellyfin app. All works really well.
The only problem is my wife sometimes deletes an entire series instead of the series somehow. I honestly don’t know how but I’ve had to download Young Sheldon for her four times now…
My setup is not recommended, honestly. Old gaming PC from about 14 years ago with a couple extra hard drives, thrown in the closet with stripped-down Windows 10 on an old SSD, desktop version of Jellyfin, and an external drive for backups. Not even running in a Docker container because the CMOS battery is dead and getting to it is way too much of a hassle on that particular motherboard, so virtualization defaults to off whenever it completely loses power. Which it unfortunately does on occasion
like winter storms, or summer heat, or if the wind is blowing.But hey, for the movies and shows we have on DVD/BD, as well as the music we’ve bought over the years, it does work for access from PCs and phones on the local network (Finamp + Jellyfin Media Player). I dabbled with IPTV for live TV replacement but found that only using totally free IPTV+metadata would take either much more work on no-virtualization Windows 10 than I’m willing to put up with, or have much more jank than my family is willing to put up with.
I sometimes question the use of Jellyfin as streaming replacement. It only makes sense, if you have a huge DVD/BD collection you do not want to put into a dedicated player or if you pirate everything.
For music it makes more sense, because smartphones are great music players at home and on the road (and I love buying CDs).
To be fair, even in my family it’s not a full streaming replacement. We have Discovery+, Nebula, and (free) YouTube. Live TV from the Roku player is the main thing I want to replace through IPTV, either Jellyfin or maybe Kodi, but both the metadata and functionality of free sources is a crapshoot. If I could replace the Roku live TV use with some inexpensive paid IPTV source, then I could easily switch to any streaming box brand, like ONN or some other generic Android TV.
I have a core i3 system with a PCIe SAS controller and 8x 8TB drives in RAID 6. It currently hosts my Jellyfin library, Immich library, and is also my primary fileserver for the LAN. I actually just moved my old 4x 5TB array from that machine over to my primary desktop to hold my Steam library. Pretty good setup if you like to tinker around with stuff.
FreeBSD server with an appjail for jellyfin. Native ZFS storage, 10 gigabit networking via SFP+ DAC. I just use finamp on mobile for music and the official apps on TVs/chromecasts. UPS keeps everything streamable if the power goes out
I run jellyfin on a kubernetes cluster which accesses my NAS via NFS.
Got mine in-house on an hpe dl360 gen 9 running in docker with 2 18tb drives for storing Linux ISO’s :)
That’s a lot of ISOs!
I do enjoy my ISO’s 😎🤣
I run it on my Debian server that uses my 15 TB RAID5 array as storage. (When I built it, 15 TB drives were a dream…now I have a 12 TB drive in my desktop computer that serves as backup to the array.)
I mainly serve it out to the client on our DirectTV streaming device. Works fine, other than I wish the intro skip plugin would be able to give me the option to skip on that client (the only way it works on the Android client is to have it skip automatically).
I’ve got a couple movies and TV shows hosted on my PC. When I eventually get a NAS for my business, I’ll host Jellyfin on a NAS
PC Specs: EndeavourOS Ryzen 5 3600 32GB RAM GTX 1660TI
My potato server died a few months ago and since I’ll be moving shortly I’m not rebuilding it right know. So I bought a simple intel nuc, slapped an old HDD inside and connected to the TV.
Jellyfin runs in the the background but I access it throght Kodi. Jellyfin is accessed directly only if my wife want to watch something from her study.
A NAS case running Unraid, with Jellyfin in a docker container. All my music, movies and tv shows are on it.
I’m running jellyfin docker container on my Synology. Works great, but I don’t transcode. … Which is another rabbit hole.
Intel N100 Beelink box with 16GB of single channel RAM runs my Jellyfin server and Caddy. It’s also hooked up to my home theater system directly so I can use Moonlight on it to stream my main gaming PC.
My storage is a 4-bay aluminum USB 3.0 external enclosure attached to an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux (Arch BTW). The Mac mini runs my Arr stack and mergerfs on the external drives so I can load balance across them and scale it up or down as needed. So basically the Mac Mini acts as a NAS.
I have a Debian VM that runs on a two node Proxmox cluster. The media is shared from an NFS share hosted on a Pi4 that has a USB drive attached.
The two nodes are new from AliExpress and have an N100 CPU, 16GB RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. They were £90 each.
A cheap setup but it works for me. It’s really to replace Plex which has been the go to app for media around the home.
nothing to share about my setup, but I’ve just checked and I haven’t used finamp on my phone since november last year. reason - Innertune. works phenomenally on the shittiest data plan, haven’t maxed it out once.