2025-01-03, 07:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-03, 07:59 PM by fontmasterflex. Edited 1 time in total.)
I'm working on setting up a media server for myself that I would eventually like to give access to, to my parents who live 250 miles away and use a Roku for streaming. They are not especially tech savvy. So for now I'm doing a trial run of Jellyfin just on my desktop computer. I've got everything worked out for local network. works fine (minus my bonus question later) so far, I am grasping what is going on.
I am, however, having a difficult time understanding exactly how to make this work remotely. From what I can tell, there are only two ways to make this work via Roku on their end. Reverse Proxy via something like Caddy, that I would install on my machine? Or just opening ports, which i understand is bad for security.
Are these the only ways I can do this with the end user being on a Roku? Pretend I'm a total noob idiot. In fact, don't pretend.
Second question, I have a tv show that i have .mkv files for that I can't get to show up in my libraries. i've tried resetting jellyfin, double checked the path is correct. I was under the impression that Jellyfin could play .mkv files?
*Edited to add: I've looked through all the tutorials I can find, but don't see any that pertain to Roku and remote. Sorry if there's already a post covering this.
I am, however, having a difficult time understanding exactly how to make this work remotely. From what I can tell, there are only two ways to make this work via Roku on their end. Reverse Proxy via something like Caddy, that I would install on my machine? Or just opening ports, which i understand is bad for security.
Are these the only ways I can do this with the end user being on a Roku? Pretend I'm a total noob idiot. In fact, don't pretend.
Second question, I have a tv show that i have .mkv files for that I can't get to show up in my libraries. i've tried resetting jellyfin, double checked the path is correct. I was under the impression that Jellyfin could play .mkv files?
*Edited to add: I've looked through all the tutorials I can find, but don't see any that pertain to Roku and remote. Sorry if there's already a post covering this.