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Jellyfin is excellent. Swapped to it from Plex about a year ago. Haven't looked back once. I run the server on an old M1 Mac Mini, it's the first time I've felt

Jellyfin is excellent. Swapped to it from Plex about a year ago. Haven't looked back once. I run the server on an old M1 Mac Mini, it's the first time I've felt I have my own personal Netflix. I can stream 40gb 4k HDR Atmos rips to old stereo 1080p plasmas with ancient Firesticks (on wifi) in bedrooms in my house with almost zero delay, even when fast forwarding, and getting near realtime frame previews as you skip. It's lovely software.

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klooney 4y ago
How old can an m1 mac mini actually be
- christoph 4y ago
  In the UK businesses generally write computer hardware off over 3 years, or 5 years if it's a really extravagannt purchase, this little M1 is now written off from a business perspective... so... They make really great low powered, insanely fast & quiet home servers... It's a lovely time to be alive! :-)
  - unethical_ban 4y ago
    3 years is pretty short, I feel like it's 5-7 here. Maybe laptops are different nowadays.
  - happymellon 4y ago
    They are still £500 on eBay, compared to the Lenovo micro systems which are less than 1/2 the price for a 10th gen and doesn't have everything soldered down it doesn't seem like a great deal yet. I'll probably be waiting another few more years before I have an M1 for my home server.
wanderingmind 4y ago
have you been able to work out how to stream when you are not in LAN, like with tailscale or other overlay network?
- nickspacek 4y ago
  Mine just works with Wireguard. I took a couple extra steps to make it convenient: 1. Public DNS entry gives jump box IP. With some http forwarding the Letsencrypt flow initiated from the internal Jellyfin server. 2. My Wireguard server (running on the jump box) runs dnsmasq and answers DNS queries for wireguard clients with the wireguard IP for the Jellyfin server. 3. DNS server on the home network gives those internal clients the local IP. Works great now; obviously not plug and play but I had fun setting it up.
- hanklazard 4y ago
  Tailscale + Jellyfin + Finamp (iOS Jellyfin music client) has been a game-changer when not on my LAN
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  I have a caddy proxy in front of jellyfin's web UI with HTTPS and a domain. It's publicly reachable.
- l72 4y ago
  I have a similar setup, with an internal Jellyfin server on my lan. Every phone in my household has Wireguard that automatically connects if you are not on my wifi (which means pi.hole, nextcloud, access to cameras, and other services are also available). It works quite well. Each family member has their own 'Library', since we all have very different taste in music, plus an 'All Library' that includes everything. We can also stream movies and tv shows I own and have ripped. The clients are OK. We are mostly using Finamp for music playback. I like knowing my music is always available to me, can't be removed, and is always the same version (I don't necessarily want a new remastered version)

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klooney 4y ago

How old can an m1 mac mini actually be

christoph 4y ago
In the UK businesses generally write computer hardware off over 3 years, or 5 years if it's a really extravagannt purchase, this little M1 is now written off from a business perspective... so... They make really great low powered, insanely fast & quiet home servers... It's a lovely time to be alive! :-)
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  3 years is pretty short, I feel like it's 5-7 here. Maybe laptops are different nowadays.
- happymellon 4y ago
  They are still £500 on eBay, compared to the Lenovo micro systems which are less than 1/2 the price for a 10th gen and doesn't have everything soldered down it doesn't seem like a great deal yet. I'll probably be waiting another few more years before I have an M1 for my home server.

wanderingmind 4y ago

have you been able to work out how to stream when you are not in LAN, like with tailscale or other overlay network?

nickspacek 4y ago
Mine just works with Wireguard. I took a couple extra steps to make it convenient: 1. Public DNS entry gives jump box IP. With some http forwarding the Letsencrypt flow initiated from the internal Jellyfin server. 2. My Wireguard server (running on the jump box) runs dnsmasq and answers DNS queries for wireguard clients with the wireguard IP for the Jellyfin server. 3. DNS server on the home network gives those internal clients the local IP. Works great now; obviously not plug and play but I had fun setting it up.
hanklazard 4y ago
Tailscale + Jellyfin + Finamp (iOS Jellyfin music client) has been a game-changer when not on my LAN
unethical_ban 4y ago
I have a caddy proxy in front of jellyfin's web UI with HTTPS and a domain. It's publicly reachable.
l72 4y ago
I have a similar setup, with an internal Jellyfin server on my lan. Every phone in my household has Wireguard that automatically connects if you are not on my wifi (which means pi.hole, nextcloud, access to cameras, and other services are also available). It works quite well. Each family member has their own 'Library', since we all have very different taste in music, plus an 'All Library' that includes everything. We can also stream movies and tv shows I own and have ripped. The clients are OK. We are mostly using Finamp for music playback. I like knowing my music is always available to me, can't be removed, and is always the same version (I don't necessarily want a new remastered version)