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How do you play/stream media from your server during offline hours?

Hi there!

Wondering what types of setup people have that allow them to, while the internet is down, still watch/stream media from their servers. I have a stacked Jellyfin library that, and would like to see this feature/setup in my own house. My Unraid server is on the other side of the house from where the living room is. Is there actually a sane way to achieve this?

cron ,

At least for me, this works out of the box.

Some requirements:

  • All the devices need to be on the same network
  • DNS needs to work or you have to use IP adresses for connecting. I’ve configured local DNS on my router.
ada ,
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Offline hours? Is that something that happens often enough to need a work around?

Sunny OP ,

No not really… Would just like it to be an option IN CASE it were to happen…

hendrik ,

I have a NFS and Samba share to my NAS. And Jellyfin exports things via DLNA / UPnP so there is always a local route to the storage. Also I've set the IP address of the server in the /etc/hosts file of my router. So even when internet is down, the DNS can resolve it.

willya , (edited )
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Plex allows this as long as you set whatever devices local IP on the allow without authorization list. I also know that plex just gets shit on the fediverse. Jellyfin doesn’t have local allowance baked in? I’ve never used it.

Sunny OP ,

It probably does tbh, I’ll have to check the documentation to double-check though. Anything that isn’t foss tends to get a handful indeed; Jellyfin genuinely is a better experience than Plex imo.

Blxter ,
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I know for me I had to give Plex the local IPs to force local streaming because it would try to stream remote even on local network.

willya , (edited )
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

I’ll prolly give it a shot at some point. I bought lifetime plex long before jellyfin was a thing. Is there an experience similar to plexamp? It’s too good.

ShortN0te ,

Jellyfin doesn’t have local allowance baked in? I’ve never used it.

Nope and that is also not needed, since it’s not a cloud dependent service.

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IP Internet Protocol
Plex Brand of media server package

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fernandu00 ,

If all the devices are in the same network you should be able to stream content even without internet. I had to wait for 5 days to my ISP set up my internet on my new address and I watched my jellyfin library in the meantime with no problems.

narc0tic_bird ,

How do you not do that? It’s all in your local network, how would it not work offline…?

Sunny OP ,

I have everything connected over Tailscale, and strictly only use IPs delegated through this system. So i realise now that I have to step away from that if I want to make it work locally :P

Dran_Arcana ,

Talescale proper gives you an external dependency (and a lot of security risk), but the underlying technology (wireguard) does not have the same limitation. You should just deploy wireguard yourself; it’s not as scary as it sounds.

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