Help! Switching from Emby and ready to go back!

[tscutty]

Hi Al, I need some help switching from emby to jellyfin or I guess at this point I'm just testing it to see you which is better. I've been working on this for 3 days and I just cannot seem to get jellyfin to connect to a client.

Emby was a breeze. 

Tried connecting to the client on my phone Android phone. I've tried on my Android TV. I can connect on the web on the actual server itself and I can see my media.

I've tried every IP address I can think of when I do the scan on the client. It doesn't find any servers either. I don't know if it's the format I'm putting in. I'm just putting in the IP address. I tried every IP address with and without the :8096 afterwards. Every combo. 

I am using chrome Os and Linux install. I've tried the Linux ip, server IP, the jellyfin ip it shows in the dashboard, etc.

I've also tried in the networking tab to do 0.0.0.0 to bind the local address. I've tried that. With that being blank, I have the allow remote connections to the server checked as well as enable automatic port mapping. Tried every combination of removing those and adding them back in.

Any ideas would help. About to give up and just use Emby. So frustrating.

[TheDreadPirate]

Did you open the firewall on the server? What Linux distro is the server running on? If ubuntu

sudo ufw allow 8096

[skribe]

The server logs may provide clues as well, if you can share them.