2024-06-05, 08:47 PM
Hello everyone, I seem to have an intermittent connection to my Jellyfin server from the android app. Worked great the first time, and has connected a few times since; but most of the time does not connect despite trying every trick in the book.
Plain and simple I've set up Jellyfin on my home computer and it's running great with a few media items to test out. I have correctly connected to it from my android phone a few times and it operates, plays as it should, etc. Problem is, I can close the app on my phone and re-open, and no matter what I can't get it to connect anymore. Randomly some time later, it will work, connection goes through, but then I lose it again and get mostly "unable to reach server". Same with a browser on the phone.
This is sitting right in front of the host computer, local network, with no changes whatsoever happening on the host machine. JF is up and running no problem.
Coincidentally, I've been trying to use Microsoft Remote Desktop Client app to reach out to this home computer as well with more or less the SAME issue: Login credentials and connection is correct. The connection comes through initially, but subsequent connections are most likely to be "connection not found" until eventually even days later it works again.
I'm wondering if these are related and perhaps has something to do with my router? I have followed about every "connection troubleshooting guide" I have found for both Remote Desktop and for Jellyfin: Manually allowing the apps through the firewall, manually ensuring the appropriate ports are open and not being used by more than one connection, wireless network is set to "Private", incoming connections are allowed where pertinent, I've gone through the Advanced settings on my router but unfortunately I do have one of the hokey Spectrum routers with a variety of automatic "precautions" built in. I've at least disabled those safety settings on the router but at this point I'm still assuming it has to be causing some trouble.
Either that or connecting to the server on an android device is just pathetically unreliable?
I would appreciate any other things to try. Reddit has been a great source to troubleshoot connection issues but unfortunately I've tried everything I found there and the admins have shut down the Jellyfin sub page.
Plain and simple I've set up Jellyfin on my home computer and it's running great with a few media items to test out. I have correctly connected to it from my android phone a few times and it operates, plays as it should, etc. Problem is, I can close the app on my phone and re-open, and no matter what I can't get it to connect anymore. Randomly some time later, it will work, connection goes through, but then I lose it again and get mostly "unable to reach server". Same with a browser on the phone.
This is sitting right in front of the host computer, local network, with no changes whatsoever happening on the host machine. JF is up and running no problem.
Coincidentally, I've been trying to use Microsoft Remote Desktop Client app to reach out to this home computer as well with more or less the SAME issue: Login credentials and connection is correct. The connection comes through initially, but subsequent connections are most likely to be "connection not found" until eventually even days later it works again.
I'm wondering if these are related and perhaps has something to do with my router? I have followed about every "connection troubleshooting guide" I have found for both Remote Desktop and for Jellyfin: Manually allowing the apps through the firewall, manually ensuring the appropriate ports are open and not being used by more than one connection, wireless network is set to "Private", incoming connections are allowed where pertinent, I've gone through the Advanced settings on my router but unfortunately I do have one of the hokey Spectrum routers with a variety of automatic "precautions" built in. I've at least disabled those safety settings on the router but at this point I'm still assuming it has to be causing some trouble.
Either that or connecting to the server on an android device is just pathetically unreliable?
I would appreciate any other things to try. Reddit has been a great source to troubleshoot connection issues but unfortunately I've tried everything I found there and the admins have shut down the Jellyfin sub page.
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