What’s a better option these days? I’d be interested in trying to get rid of duckdns

Tiny10 on a VM

I’m sluggishly in the middle of the same thing.

I had truenas installed bare metal, with some jails for emby (jellyfin) and Adguard etc worked well enough but I wanted a little more flexibility.

I installed proxmox on the machine itself, and fired up a truenas VM and passed through the discs (for now until I get an HBA card).

Tons more flexibility.

You made my wife cry

EDIT IRL

Oh yeah I am on board with jellyfin and emby all the way 100%

Kodi/LibreELEC is just the full suite, especially with home assistant. Use the addon and enjoy one interface for every single piece of media, cutting out each apps “eye candy” and clutter, and enjoy your tunes with visualizers!

Add-ons for everything

Moonlight for game streaming, tied into my whole home remote control and home assistant for ease of use for everyone in the family.

It’s all pretty slick.

Once you get it setup just make a backup and roll that out on the other machines needed.

EASY KILLER

I DON’T SEE ANY JELLYFIN DISTROS

“JUST ENOUGH OS FOR JELLYFIN?” no

Though jellyfin/emby as the back end works really well

Kodi/LibreELEC is awesome for all the different stuff you can add in

EDIT for typos

I know this is coming up on my radar, but I am not quite sure where to start. Might you have any resources on hand to point me in the right direction?

Especially once I have everything dialed in the way I want, I’d love to be able to pull from my own repo to get stuff running again/spin up a new instance

Anyone have opinions about hiding this under a bed or other discreet location? (Closet, crawlspace, etc)

Maybe with hardwood floors or a closet that isn’t full of winter coats or something, but it makes me nervous. But I would like to kinda spread out the homelab a little

I’ve messed around with this a time or two but didn’t realize how deep the rabbit hole went! I’m gonna look into this

I like this way of thinking! Excited to see what smarter people than myself come up with

I’ve been curious about this myself.

Also been happy with emby, but am also curious about jellyfin

I’m no expert; only been dipping my toes in the selfhosted water for a few years.

But my thought process would be all the main stuff on your main server and the redundant instances on a little backup

Plus ultra!

We’ve so much in common! I had a skin working that made Kodi look just like an emby app or webpage

There is an emby addon that uses your server to keep track of profiles and stuff. It’s actually pretty sweet to get it set up.

LibreELEC all day if you’re just watching/listening (minus a little emulation support (OH and moonlight docker addon))

Just enough os for Kodi with a little more sizzle

ChimeraOS? digging in now

I have been on this hunt myself and am coming up short. Especially on the hardware at my disposal.

So far I’ve tried all the same stuff you’ve mentioned but am settling in to LibreELEC well enough with addons, including the emby next gen setup (got into emby before finding out about jellyfin)

what don’t you dig about LibreELEC?

Plasma bigscreen sounds like it would be the best, but I never got it to work right ( granted I was very new to Linux back then)

Have you tried blissOS?

I was messing around with another jellyfin/emby instance specifically for my tunes and podcasts/audiobooks.

I think the app from fdroid was fintunes or finamp or something like that. Worked okay!

I need to send this to myself in the AM as a reminder