Home-Media Hosts Lost in Plex/Jellyfin Setup
Individuals are struggling to set up and manage their own home media servers, often involving complex software and configurations. They seek guidance on server setup, software integration (Plex, Jellyfin, Radarr, Trakt), storage management, and user access control, frequently encountering technical roadblocks and a lack of coding expertise. The desire to replace cloud storage services fuels this effort.
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“Yes. In admin dashboard you can set them up. Not sure if it is in iPhone app, but it does in Android.”
I spent a lot of time running into MiniDLNA bugs with my real-world media library-TVs that wouldn’t browse properly, Kodi date/object-ID issues, and plenty of other compatibility quirks. I fixed some of…
“Would it be possible when marking a video in Plex watched then it could update Floppy? As of now when I watch an episode/movie it syncs but if I mark it as watched it doesnt.”
“Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I use VOD2MLIB alongside existing, non STRM media libraries in Emby. When the same movie or series exists both in my existing library and in the VOD2MLIB generated STRM library, the server indexes both and shows duplicate entries VOD2MLIB’s current dedupe options address duplicates within Dispatcharr categories/relations, but not duplicates against a separate external media library Describe the solution you'd like Add an optional “Ex”
“For direct play, one of the main things that can slow down a server/cause buffering is HDD read saturation. Would be good to be able to see that at a glance to know if maybe tdarr or something else is causing excessive reads. Be able to see seeders/peers for torrents in Home Screen would be great too as that's the main influencer for up/down speed.”
“after almost 15 years as a pure plex user (ran local server on PC, connected via rokus, own plex pass) I finally got tired of modern App development (tells you want you want, hides all the stuff you are looking for, more and more product placement and ads). I tried Jellyfin for a while, but it still felt like a downgrade on some of the core plex functions that I was taking for granted. Last week I went all in to dev my own side loaded app on Roku which is now live and in use on my whole network.”
“you can drop a file in VODS from the Dockhand terminal as root. Generate still gets Errno 13 on /VODS/Movies so it's not that user.”
“I mean, the dependencies is mostly data, except for ffmpeg due to licensing reasons, and the fact I may want to update it individually/make it replaceable. I already support loading system ffmpeg though so I suppose it'd only be data anyway.”
“Yeah, Tdarr would be a great non AI use for it, especially if you already have a big media library”
“I am currently developing a Dockerized media server (comprising Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, and Jellyfin) on an older Ubuntu PC. I am utilizing internet connectivity from my Android phone via USB tethering or a mobile hotspot. I have encountered several networking challenges, primarily due to the unavailability of IPv4 on mobile networks, as the aforementioned applications and their associated services appear to have difficulties with IPv6. As a medical student with limited expertise in th”
“This looks interesting to me and will have to put it on my list of apps to check out. Are you going to look into adding native OIDC? GL”
“Happy new year all. For those that may have been using the embymedia component (not the official HA one) - I’d appreciate some feedback on the latest version’s attempt to reduce resource requirements. Keep in mind a lo…”
“root in the terminal can write /VODS but Generate still can't create /VODS/Movies — is that mount read-only, or is the plugin running as a different user than the shell?”
“当前程序版本 V3.0.0 运行环境 Docker 功能改进类型 主程序 功能改进 1.优化手动搜索步骤 现阶段搜索步骤繁琐：要手动搜索一部影片需要经过：输入名字 选择“电影 电视剧”子菜单 选择站点 选择“标题/IMDB”链接。 建议优化为默认搜索方式为：电影 电视剧搜索，去除站点选择框，并将搜索方式默认设置为IMDB编码搜索（最佳准确率）。这样只用输入名称后回车就可以直接搜索了，方便快捷。【参考PPTP搜索方式】 （默认搜索类别，站点选择，标题/IMDB选择等选项都可以移到设置中，避免每次都要点选增加操作成本） 2.修改订阅页面搜索选项为手动搜索跳转。 <img width="446" height="186" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/320bcfc8 532d 4131 a04a 4bc7fa6e5868" / 目前的订阅页面的“搜索”功能是执行了订阅板块中的搜索下载功能。但我个人目前仅将订阅栏目作为豆瓣收藏同步器。建议目前的“搜索”可以变更为“订阅下载”功能。并将原本的“搜索”改为点”
“Brief Description Considering that a year has passed since the last update and no one knows when the program will be updated or if it will be updated at all, such a feature would be very useful. Detailed Description It would also be nice if the previous version were archived rather than deleted before an update. Additional Information (Optional) No response”
“currently only audio transcode available as i dont want to touch ffmpeg (license reasons) and all modern TV can play x264,x265,av1 as directplay i basically forked few libs, so code is MIT/Apache2 with forked/fixed DTS/AC3 encoders/decoders But i will keep this in mind if i will introduce that in future releases (or fix the driver)”
“Project marks 1 year And if you tired of RAM usage for Jellifin/Plex then its time to try it :) You can use phone or tablet to find what u need and then broadcast to any TV in house from it Can transcode DTS->AC3 now as well, all tracks at once, so you Samsung/LG tv can stream media even if all audio tracks in MKV are DTS And have 2 beautiful web interfaces that allow you to search files and cast them to TVs Web player opens MKV files with AC3/DTS inside and play video with AAC transcoding, s”
“I have setup an automated media server with jellyfin, seerr, jellybridge, radarr, sonarr. First issue, I use public indexers with byparr, it works but the seerr to and from radarr connection is very slow and it takes a long time for the legal movie to show up after its down submitted by /u/Pale-Cantaloupe4589 [link] [comments]”
“The obvious way to me is to create a symlink of each movie folder in the hers folder. /data/movies/mine/Awesome Movie (2026) -> /data/movies/hers/Awesome Movie (2026) I don't know Jellyseerr at all but if there's a way to run a script when something is requested then you should be able to automate it if the movie already exists.”
“Check out Remux in place of jellyfin. Its pretty great and the development is much more active. Also works with all existing jellyfin data, users, etc.”
“I gave a friend access to my jellyfin instance. initially i wanted to create a separate libraries/folder for her shows and movies but couldn’t really figure out how to do this. Could i based on the user who requested the media via jellyseerr have libraries for her and for me? And how the intergrate this with sonarr/radarr qbittorrent and stuff? For examples /data/movies/hers /data/movies/mine Or can this only be down by running multiple sonarr and radarr instances? submitted by /u/Fi”
“Has anyone managed to get this plugin working in Dispatcharr? Looks like it could be really useful to present VODs on an IPTV service to a library in Jellyfin. The only problem is that I can't get it to work. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but it seems to be a folder permission issue and the plugin can't write the STRM files to the folder. I'm not great technically on Linux, and I've tried everything that I can think of, so I am wondering if anyone else has got it workin”
“Wow great stuff! Love that you are hosting the server and letting friends/family access it. I will have to look into that for my family too, there’s always that random desire to watch one specific movie yet it never seems to be on any of the streaming services. That is part what inspired me to make this too. Very cool”
I read the entire blurb and i’m still not really sure what this does
“My PS5 has a ton of videos that I'm hoarding from years ago and I'm almost out of space, this is something that I'm going to be looking into”
“I've setup a free live tv on my jellyfin. Is there a way to add all the exclusive peacock, ESPN, prime video, etc. Games live on jellyfin? submitted by /u/YeyeThanos [link] [comments]”
“Speed, more stable, and collections are amazing. For some reason 90+gb remuxes play without issues on nuvio, but stutter in stremio.”
Scrob has Kodi support: https://github.com/ellite/scrob-kodi
“As you can see from the photo, I downloaded a movie that was correctly imported into Radarr; however, after the download finished and I deleted the file in question, aMule still shows it as "queued" until the shared directory updates—even though the file no longer exists or has already been successfully imported. <img width="1092" height="653" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user attachments/assets/9b3c3773 b43e 48e8 a52a 0ddc45597b23" /”
“Yup. This is easy and not an unusual/odd thing to do. Well, except I did the samba share from the VM but I'm connecting to internal HDD but same idea.”
“I will be very surprised if you find anything similar that supports all Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Kodi, given that Kodi really does not fit in with all the others.”
“i keep bouncing between solutions for this and it never quite lands. scrobbling to trakt from each service then using something like trakt's own dash or a third party frontend is probably the cleanest path if you want one pane of glass. kodi has a trakt addon that works well enough once you dial in the settings. getting kodi to play nice with the same backend as plex and emby is the sticky part. most of the selfhosted trackers lean heavy on one ecosystem or the other, so you end up with a fr”
“You probably want one of the forks. I think vibeshine supports headless. But not sure on Linux support, if you were running a hypervisor, you could perhaps try a windows VM with a GPU passthrough?”
“Suggestions for media playback tracking? I currently have Tautulli for Plex, jellystat for Emby, and nothing for Kodi. I'd love to have a single interface so I can sunset Tautulli submitted by /u/DefyingMavity [link] [comments]”
“Just found this and got it running. Is there. Docs page anywhere? Some of it is not so self explanatory”
“I have a couple of things I use Firstly like others have said Romm is great For lower end stuff in browser What I also use is RetroBat which is great frontend for a bunch of emulators, what I did was set it up so it uses folders on a network share for its games, bios and saves, so I can boot up RetroBat from any one of my PC’s and have a pickup and play emulation station that syncs saves and save states between all the computers because they use one central location for them”
“I have recently setup my proxmox server and am wanting to put Jellyfin on it to watch my collection of shows and films at home however need to sense check if I can do what I want in my head or not. I have managed to mount an external drive to my Proxmox server which houses all the files but I was wondering if it was possible to map that drive on my Windows PC (separate to the server) in order to do file maintenance (adding and renaming new files etc.) in file explorer or if I am better off setti”
So anyway to get this to work on TV clients like Wholphin?
“I want my Ubuntu server (with CasaOS) to be a machine to run old games that according to my specifications could run even PS2 games, to stream them on my PC, TV... I've tried romM but I'm not convinced by the js emulator. From what I've seen sunshine/moonlight they can work well but I don't know if it's possible even since they don't have a graphical interface, and in case you can I don't know how to configure sunshine with an emulator and all that stuff (I've alr”
“Hi all, I've been getting into self hosting for the past few months and I've been having a good time! The service I use most is Jellyfin for watching movies on any device I own (iPhone, Android TV, MacBook.) Is there a similar service for video game emulation? I know of romm and retrom, but those are rom managers that have gameplay in the web browser which isn't what I'm looking for, I'm looking for a service that has a dedicated app. I don't need to run heavier platforms”
hmm alright thanks after changing to a soft mounting system the lxc can boot fine, but radarr/sonarr really dont like working when they dont have access to /media. are you suggesting i…
“Sounds like you just need the NFS mount on proxmox to not be hard-mounted, use soft or background options so the LXC boots and apps dont hang when jellyfin box is down. Then have radarr/sonarr move files to a local staging dir, and a cron or script rsyncs to the NFS path when it becomes reachable.”
“Currently (after a bit of headache) I have a fully functional *arr stack with qbittorrent in one LXC, and another with seer on my proxmox server, then on a more powerful machine I run jellyfin. The whole system runs great, given that the jellyfin server is powered on, which it typically isn't overnight My ideal workflow is this, and im wondering if its possible: request is made on seer (while jellyfin is powered off) radarr/sonarr downloads to the local downloads directory on proxmox it chec”
“It should. How often have you set rclone to run? Here it runs every 15 minutes, for example.”
“I switched when Plex stopped being able to read all my media. I deleted everything and even created a new account. I still can't access anything. After a lot of yelling, I decided to just try jellyfin. I like it for the most part. I do with it either had or I know how to make too where I can access the server even when I'm not at home.”
“Glad you like it. It has only two databases Folders and Files. Those two related to each other. If you like to try this then Just search "locominder file manager" on google. can't paste link here”
“This does not work if the content you are interested in watching is whatever is current. Works for me though since most stuff I like is older. You really can get a ton of DVDs for dirt cheap if you know where to look.”
“https://www.retrobat.org/en/ https://playnite.link/ https://kodi.tv/download/windows/ https://www.launchbox-app.com/ Those are some options you might want to check out. I would start with Kodi, as it has in my opinion the best jellyfin client available. Or you could just use custom hotkeys or just alt + tab”