I recommend a Plex server. People here will yell jellyfin all day long but while it is good, there is shit that will make you tear your hair out. Plex will literally “just work”.
If your TV is a smart TV, you can install the Plex app and from that point on its mostly set and forget.
I just use Stremio + RD(Torrentio) on my TV, laptop and phone as they share the same public IPv4 address and I’m definitely not crossing the limit of 32 connections per server. I recommend that setup, gets rid of running a homeserver all time.
If you want to stick with your VPN and homeserver setup, get rid of Kodi and host Plex_debrid on your server, that way you can connect as many devices you want to Plex but only your server will be the one connecting with RD servers, letting you stay within the restrictions.
I respect that it’s a pain getting up change it (where I recommend the air mouse) as well as the pain of having to plug it all back in, so it makes sense that you don’t want to move your streaming computer constantly and you don’t want to buy another one. Best of luck figuring out what works for you
Just buy an air mouse for $20 and you don’t have to get up to change episodes. Doesn’t help with having to unplug it from the hdmi all the time but that’s less of a hassle if you can just do it once when you start watching and then control everything from the couch.
I use a hacked fire stick but pretty sure the exact same setup is achievable on android TV.
You can use stremio + torrentio and utilise your current realdebrid subscription then just install your preferred vpn as well.
Fire up the VPN and connect so that all your traffic is going through that VPN connection and then load up stremio.
I used to use kodi and debrid and this stremio setup is night and day better and easier to use, my gf would refuse to use kodi but this operates so much like Netflix etc that she uses it all the time now as well.
Thanks for your comment. Yeah I hear the UX on stremio is so much better that’s why I was leaning more towards doing that. I spent hours to make Kodi UX smoother but at the end of the day it’s a slug for the average user.
Do you know how I should route the TV traffic (Stremio) through the VPN on my old laptop tho? Or should I just give up on that part
It absolutely is, I even set up stremio on a fire stick for my sister and she is absolutely technologically illiterate and would never have understood kodi but with stremio she is doing just fine!
I’m not really sure what you are asking in the second part though. If I’m running stremio on my laptop then I have my airvpn connection running in the background so everything is going via that connection.
On the fire stick I use the proton VPN app and open that up, connect there then all the traffic on the fire stick is forced to go through there.
Using either method the stremio traffic has to go via the respective VPN. Maybe I’m missing something with the question though so if I’m being stupid please say and I’ll try and help further :)
Thanks for elaborating! Not at all, my bad for not explaining! So what is happening is that I’m using Mullvad, and there is a limit on number of connections I can have. I’m already using them all so I can’t just connect my TV to it as well. However my homeserver (a.k.a. my old laptop) is using one of the connections so I thought maybe it would be a good idea to make the TV traffic go through that too.
I gotta mention I’m new to all this so if I’m talking outta my butt feel free to laugh at my comment and correct me :D
Ah OK, im with you now. If there is a way to do that then I don’t know how I am afraid. I would personally just change up the connections so you could use the TV as one of them purely for the ease of it as I like to make my life as easy as possible xD
Sorry I can’t help any further with that but good luck with your endeavours, if you choose to go stremio I think you’ll be impressed compared to kodi :D
You’re already familiar with Kodi, so install that on your Android TV. I have an Nvidia Shield with Kodi, and it just plays movies straight from my server. You should be able to use the TV’s remote to control Kodi without worrying about the VPN.
Yeah you’re right. Although I’m not against learning new stuff, and hearing how stremio is more streamlined to interact with, I thought it would be a good choice but I wanna hear different opinions from the community so thanks for your comment :)
A lot will also depend on your personal usage. Whilst I agree wholeheartedly that Stremio UX is much better that Kodi, out of the box, the one thing that keeps me with Kodi is the fact that it has far superior Trakt integration.
I will admit that Stremio is getting better it’s still a far cry from Kodi with Trakt integration and it’s something I rely heavily on.
That said if Trakt is not your thing then Stremio is probably a better option.
Also, if you’re using RD either with Kodi or Stremio there’s no real need to use a VPN as well as traffic is passed over HTTPS so the ISP only sees that you’re connecting to RD not what you’re doing.
Sorry for the late reploy, but this is what my KODI with trakt looks like on opening the app and the movie section is the same. All widgets are driven by my Trakt account
Damn you. You had me with that beautiful tuxedo. Where are the mods? This isn’t even fair.
I’m an old school plex user and think it would serve your purposes well, but I know jellyfin is the more popular option around these parts. Being comfortable with plex and reading about jellyfin, I’ve felt that jellyfin seemed a bit more fussy to implement but I assume that comes with greater customizability.
Hmm I heard plex and jellyfin both suffer from file duplication and storage management issues that’s why I was leaning more towards stremio. That and how easy it is to set up. Do you have to download movies first to watch them with Plex?
Isn’t stremio just an aggreagator for streaming services you pay for?
I use plex for streaming downloaded media yes, but it does have a free streaming service with incredibly bad movies, like almost watchable because they are comically Bad. No issues with storage or file duplication that I’ve ever experienced.
So to my understanding, the Stremio + RD (Real-Debrid) + Torrentio is working in such a way that, Torrentio is the aggregator, then Real-Debrid will work as direct download for the torrent, and finally Stremio will play the content from the link. So technically speaking you don’t need to deal with downloading stuff.
I use Plex to stream to my AppleTV 4k. I am prepared for the inevitable comments shitting all over Apple, however this is very easy to setup and is very reliable and very easy to use, so the haters can kick rocks.
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There is also jellyfin as an alternative to plex that I will mention everytime someone mentions plex because I believe jellyfin deserves more visibility and is the better option
Fair enough, and if you prefer Jellyfin, then please do enjoy it in good health. For me, I can never get it setup to function reliably, and I do not care for the UI at all.
The hardest part of setting Jellyfin up is organizing your media directories and sometimes renaming the files so it shows up nice and pretty, the metadata part usually works as expected (that’s why organizing and renaming the files previously is important).
I use Musicbrainz-picard to organize music and clean up metadata. For Shows and movies, it’s pretty easy. I use Plex and it’s pretty flexible with naming conventions
Jellyfin uses the same naming conventions (don’t trust my memory tho), but it’s more about having your own organisation if you want to keep certain media inside their own library instead of having everything together
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