How do you play/stream media from your server during offline hours?
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?
How do you not do that? It's all in your local network, how would it not work offline..?
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
You should still be able to access everything through tailscale once you switch everything over to use local IP addresses.
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.
You shouldn't have the do anything specific at all, local network stuff works without internet and Jellyfin doesn't rely on any internet servers like Plex does for authentication.
Plex allows you to add a list of local IPs that can access your server without authentication, just have to be sure to do it while your internet is up or else you won't be able to log in to edit the setting.
It does but it's a bit of a weird way of doing things.
Not a great feature when you have multiple people in the same house with different users and watch histories.
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.
Offline hours? Is that something that happens often enough to need a work around?
No not really... Would just like it to be an option IN CASE it were to happen...
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol IoT Internet of Things for device controllers NAS Network-Attached Storage NAT Network Address Translation Plex Brand of media server package SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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My setup is pretty simple. I use static DNS on my router, which points my jellfin domain to the local address when on my LAN, and I set up DHCP to point my devices to use my router for DNS. It's incredibly simple, so all I do is type in my jellyfin domain and it works optimally wherever I am.
I actually had my internet go out for a couple hours and we were able to watch our content just fine.
During a rare internet-but-not-power outage, my roku tv refused to turn on or give me any option to switch inputs because it couldn't update.
Yeah between the forced binding arbitration and their claims to wanting to start pre-roll ads, Roku is dead to me, I will never buy another device from them nor recommend them to anyone.
I have a single network with my jellyfin server and wifi devices, I run Pi-Hole with DNS for internal things and can use Jellyfin while at home or out and about.
In Pi-Hole look for
Local DNS Recordsto add your own suffI probably have something set up incorrectly, but I get no jellyfin when the internet goes down. My jellyfin is on one of those n100 beelink boxes which can't seem to use the 2.5 ghz ethernet when this happens. I can access it from a browser (with no other web pages available)on the box itself, but it doesn't want to send it out to the network to my roku. That's happening right now.
Simply a NAS with Samba connections from all local clients.
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.
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.
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.