Moving from Plex to Jellyfin on unRAID. Where to begin?

[urbanracer34]

So I have a server running unRAID and Plex.

Due to recent events regarding Plex that are still ongoing, I want to switch to Jellyfin from Plex.

I'm drowning here. Where do I start?

[bitmap]

If you don't want to bring over a ton of data, spin up a Jellyfin instance in your preferred format. Jellyfin offers a TON of options from bare metal on any major OS to docker, docker compose, and several community containers for Unraid, Synology, etc...

Start here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/

There are a lot of guides, so check back in if you get lost. Share your server hardware, what preferences you have, etc... and we can help.

[urbanracer34]

Hello!

Thanks for the assistance!

I finally got it running today.

I have 2 problems:

I loaded up an anime episode (webrip) and when I exited out of it, I lost my playback progress.

I loaded up an episode of a TV show (Webrip) with a check mark beside it and it said "Playback error: Unable to find a media source to play"

I haven't touched any files.

How can I fix this?

Also, I want to set up sharing of my library to certain people, as well as my parents. How do I go about doing this? I am wanting to do this on a trial basis, with my parents being the guinea pigs.

I am running a Intel® Core™ i7-8700K with onboard GPU for transcoding.

I am trying to set up NPM to secure my Jellyfin server https://github.com/jlesage/docker-nginx-proxy-manager using the following guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1a4u72o-64 and I am stuck. I enabled HTTPS in Jellyfin and I still can't connect.

[bitmap]

Disable HTTPS in Jellyfin. Set up NPM to listen on 443, proxy pass jellyfin.* (or your FQDN) to your server IP with the correct port (8096 unless you changed it via docker). Do you have a cert handled through NPM via certbot? If so, that should be all that's needed. I use somewhat of a combo of things, but SWAG through LSIO offers nginx, proxy configuration templates, certbot, fail2ban, and automatic cert management. Works great.

As long as you have certbot + nginx/NPM, you should only need to listen on 443 and pass that on to your server IP + Jellyfin port.

The error you encountered on playback means Jellyfin can't find the media file. If you're using docker(-ish), you should be able to exec into the container and search for the file(s) as a troubleshooting step.

[urbanracer34]

I got HTTPS working with Let's Encrypt for Jellyfin! Thanks!

I'm using docker on unRAID. How would I go about doing that?

How can I add other users for my parent's for example?

I still find my playback progress hasn't saved on another show. What is going on?

[urbanracer34]

I got HTTPS working with Let's Encrypt for Jellyfin! Thanks!

I'm using docker on unRAID. How would I go about doing that?

How can I add other users for my parent's for example?

I still find my playback progress hasn't saved on another show. What is going on?

Still having issues. If this is no longer the place to ask, where should I go?

[bitmap]

Progress saving depends on platform. For example, on Android -- and Android TV afaik -- progress isn't saved if you use an external player. Unsure on iOS. Most platforms do save progress (web, JMP, Roku, webOS).

For adding users, go to Dashboard > Users and click the grey plus button at the top of the page. Set a username and password. I use jfa-go for user management, which is pretty cool. I want to look into Authentik, but I started it up and it broke things and confused me, so that's for another day.