Portable JellyFin server

[Trey Spooner]

I'm currently running a JellyFin server on my desktop PC in my basement, but I'm planning on building out a network closet and migrating it to a rack mount server... But I've got this crazy idea to create a semi-portable standalone JellyFin server. The idea would be that we could take it in the car and with a local network be able to stream and entertain kids on line drives regardless of having any cellular network coverage.

Any ideas or suggestions? I could easily just do a small form factor PC, a router and (if my library expands more) and small NAS or external enclosure. But is there something even more compact I haven't considered?

[TheDreadPirate]

An N100 based mini PC is a good option. It can act as both the server and client. You also wouldn't need a router in that setup since you can use "localhost" to access Jellyfin. USB SSDs/HDDs is probably a better option for portable storage.

[gnattu]

Or just bring a laptop?

[conor]

A turris mox combined with a wifi module would be the most extreme portable option I can think of.

https://linitx.com/product/turris-mox-po...uter/16912

Would need to build one with 1GB of ram and have a usb disk for external storage.

The turris os supports LXC so you can install a regular linux distro with that.

Obviously no transcoding but direct streaming would work fine.

[TheDarkPioneer7]

If you don't want to have the lan in the car you could make it a DAS for the car and use it as a media server home