Jellyfin server running on Pi Bookworm and remote control

[fiore42]

I have a Raspberry Pi 5 running Bookworm connected to a TV via HDMI 

Jellyfin works fine, I can connect from all my other devices, but I'd like to enable one last use case.

Having a client running on the Pi itself, playing on the TV via HDMI, and control (play, pause, rewind, forward, volume, subtitles on/off) from my iPhone.

GPT suggested to turn on "Allow remote control of clients" in Dashboard -> Playback, but I don't see the option.

I see a thread on Jellyfin on Raspberry and one on remote control, but they are both a bit generic.

Before I go around and try all sorts of things, I wonder if anyone could point me in the right direction. 

I'm running Jellyfin.Server 10.10.4.0 using docker and the lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin image exposing port 8096.

Currently I use VLC running on the Pi and the VLC web GUI from my phone browser.

Also, which Jellyfin client? The thread I found suggests Kodi - why not just a Jellyfin client? is there one for Wayland? gpt suggested one running on flatpak but I didn't try to install it because it seems it had a brick ton of dependencies.

Thanks

[TheDreadPirate]

You'd need to run Jellyfin Media Player or Jellyfin MPV Shim on the Pi. It would need to be running all the time. On other devices it would appear as a "Cast To" target.

"Allow remote control of clients" is in Dashboard > Users > select a User. Scroll down about 2/3 of the way and there will be a "Remote Control" section.

[fiore42]

Thank you! I'll try - I can turn on the client on the Pi when needed