2025-10-06, 09:39 AM
Hello all,
Been a fairly casual user of Plex for a little while; gradually switching to Jellyfin. As a part of that process, I'd like to have a local jellyfin instance running on a small device like a Raspberry Pi or NUC in our RV, connected to the travel router and the smart TV. Given some of the places we take the RV, internet connection is sometimes intermittent or just less than ideal for streaming. Additionally, my home jellyfin instance is not currently on hardware that does well with transcoding. So, I'd like to set up a second instance in the RV, with just the shows we're currently watching - maybe half a season each of 3-4 TV series. I'd have to handle updating those files - both adding and deleting - either when we return home, or when we get to some place with sufficiently strong/fast internet connection.
I've seen several examples (1, 2, 3) for such a set up - but they all seem to gloss over one thing - syncing the watch status between the jellyfin instance at home, with the one in the RV, and vice versa. I'm not really sure whether this would be something I'd want to use SyncPlay for, or something like WatchState, or something else entirely? If I'm adding/removing series/seasons/episodes from the RV instance, is that going to cause havoc with the other end of things?
Thanks!
Been a fairly casual user of Plex for a little while; gradually switching to Jellyfin. As a part of that process, I'd like to have a local jellyfin instance running on a small device like a Raspberry Pi or NUC in our RV, connected to the travel router and the smart TV. Given some of the places we take the RV, internet connection is sometimes intermittent or just less than ideal for streaming. Additionally, my home jellyfin instance is not currently on hardware that does well with transcoding. So, I'd like to set up a second instance in the RV, with just the shows we're currently watching - maybe half a season each of 3-4 TV series. I'd have to handle updating those files - both adding and deleting - either when we return home, or when we get to some place with sufficiently strong/fast internet connection.
I've seen several examples (1, 2, 3) for such a set up - but they all seem to gloss over one thing - syncing the watch status between the jellyfin instance at home, with the one in the RV, and vice versa. I'm not really sure whether this would be something I'd want to use SyncPlay for, or something like WatchState, or something else entirely? If I'm adding/removing series/seasons/episodes from the RV instance, is that going to cause havoc with the other end of things?
Thanks!