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portable jellyfin stack (discuss.online)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by darkknight@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'll be vacationing for a month and want to setup a portable jellyfin server/stack. I'm not sure how good the internet will be, website says 300 mbps, but I won't know until I'm there, so not sure remote playback is an option. I already have a n100 minipc I bought for a backup firewall, so I'd just need to buy RAM for it.

Here's what I'm thinking would be the easiest setup for this:

  • travel router to vpn to internet
  • jellyfin server
  • nas os (will probably be truenas/omv, haven't settled on that yet) using external hard drive (I have a 5tb hdd that's just sitting around)

to get media on nas, docker containers on nas OS:

  • radarr
  • sonarr
  • sabnzbd

Is there an easier way to get media on the nas, or better options (or anything I'm overlooking) for any of it for those that have done a portable/offiline media server? Thanks in advance!

Edited for formatting

Edit: the consensus seems to be that this is overkill. I had a good reason at some point over just a laptop, but after sleeping on the feedback I don't remember what it was.

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[–] darkknight@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

VLC is an option I hadn't considered, I'd still have to get the media on the hdd, but something to consider for sure. I won't be hosting any showings, this is just for personal viewing.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, then definitely just install VLC. Far easier than mucking about with Jellyfin.

[–] darkknight@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair. I'm already very familiar with jellyfin, so the setup wasn't much concern, but the other options provided are good.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I agree to just fill up the HDD with media and bring that to play with VLC. Setting up the *arrs and usenet seems like a lot.

Like someone else suggested, maybe just bring a laptop and then you can manually torrent the few new episodes of whatever show you're currently watching rather than dealing with the automation aspect.