Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
arstechnica.com
Roku users will be hit first.

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

      • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        forgot most of you here are americans, roku isn’t a thing in my country. everyone who i share to uses a pc, htpc, phone or tablet for that

        • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Roku is also a thing in Europe.

          Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.

      • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        If you want to try it I think you should be able to do it With a Raspberry pi or equivalent on their network running Tailscale, use iptables to forward all inbound traffic on the Jellyfin port from that device to your Jellyfin server which is also running tailscale. Connect their Roku using the pi as the address for Jellyfin. I’ve not tried this with Jellyfin but I had something similar working with a Minecraft server

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Lol

      Edit: honestly, I could start itemizing why this person’s response is terrible, but all it feels like it deserves is “lol”.