2024-01-28, 05:02 PM
Hello --
New around here, although a Kodi user for a long, long time and jellyfin since 3 or so years. Emby, before.
My setup is probably not out of the ordinary: the server's a jellyfin docker container running in a Debian VM on a Proxmox host that has some beefy hardware and a handful of drives with the media content. The main player is a Raspberry Pi running Libreelec (and mostly the jellycon plugin, because since an SD card died and I had to recreate, the jellyfin one doesn't seem to sync). There's a Roku player, and a few phones and tablets, sometimes in the house, sometimes outside. All good.
Except the Proxmox host is a huge power sink, and some of the drives getting long in the tooth, and it doesn't do much except running Jellyfin for most of the time.
So I was thinking about switching it off and replacing it with one of these cute N100 based mini pc's, and add an USB drive to that. One large drive could fit my library these days, and I was thinking about parking this combo next to the TV and using it as a client as well. I am ok with that physical setup, had similar hardware sitting next to the main TV for years when I was using Kodi on its own (a SFF ITX based PC with a 3.5'' drive).
I am not sure how to go about this, specifically the client bit. Although I like the jellyfin app and the webclient is great on a computer, this stuff seems lacking when I picture how to use it with a remote control on a TV. People in general don't seem to run it on TV, but rely on either Android or kodi based interfaces.
Currently I would install some debian or ubuntu on the box, docker for the jellyfin server, and Kodi for the client (dockerized Kodi seems not much of a thing). Alternatively, there could be a Libreelec based system, there's a plugin that installs docker apparently and from there one could set up Jellyfin. I've been searching around a bit and was surprised not to find this described - or even mentioned - a lot. There's people running Jellyfin on their Kodi sometimes, but other clients and transcoding is certainly not a factor.
Is this even a good approach? Would an N100 do the job? Is there a smart way to go about it or things to avoid? On one side I'd enjoy the 'works out of the box' Libreelec bit, but I am hesitant about how much out-of-the-box is left after putting docker, jellyfin, and ideally a ZFS'ed USB drive on that.
In general I trust that I can get something to work more or less reliably, I'd just like to hear some opinions one way or the other... when nobody seems to have done this before, either I am a genius for having the idea, or there's good reasons not to do it
New around here, although a Kodi user for a long, long time and jellyfin since 3 or so years. Emby, before.
My setup is probably not out of the ordinary: the server's a jellyfin docker container running in a Debian VM on a Proxmox host that has some beefy hardware and a handful of drives with the media content. The main player is a Raspberry Pi running Libreelec (and mostly the jellycon plugin, because since an SD card died and I had to recreate, the jellyfin one doesn't seem to sync). There's a Roku player, and a few phones and tablets, sometimes in the house, sometimes outside. All good.
Except the Proxmox host is a huge power sink, and some of the drives getting long in the tooth, and it doesn't do much except running Jellyfin for most of the time.
So I was thinking about switching it off and replacing it with one of these cute N100 based mini pc's, and add an USB drive to that. One large drive could fit my library these days, and I was thinking about parking this combo next to the TV and using it as a client as well. I am ok with that physical setup, had similar hardware sitting next to the main TV for years when I was using Kodi on its own (a SFF ITX based PC with a 3.5'' drive).
I am not sure how to go about this, specifically the client bit. Although I like the jellyfin app and the webclient is great on a computer, this stuff seems lacking when I picture how to use it with a remote control on a TV. People in general don't seem to run it on TV, but rely on either Android or kodi based interfaces.
Currently I would install some debian or ubuntu on the box, docker for the jellyfin server, and Kodi for the client (dockerized Kodi seems not much of a thing). Alternatively, there could be a Libreelec based system, there's a plugin that installs docker apparently and from there one could set up Jellyfin. I've been searching around a bit and was surprised not to find this described - or even mentioned - a lot. There's people running Jellyfin on their Kodi sometimes, but other clients and transcoding is certainly not a factor.
Is this even a good approach? Would an N100 do the job? Is there a smart way to go about it or things to avoid? On one side I'd enjoy the 'works out of the box' Libreelec bit, but I am hesitant about how much out-of-the-box is left after putting docker, jellyfin, and ideally a ZFS'ed USB drive on that.
In general I trust that I can get something to work more or less reliably, I'd just like to hear some opinions one way or the other... when nobody seems to have done this before, either I am a genius for having the idea, or there's good reasons not to do it