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  • themachine@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Jellyfin is a fully self hosted drop in. That means it’s up to the server operator to handle everything. You would still tell your mom to just install the Jellyfin app on her TV with the one additional step in your server address which you would tell her.

    But yes, you as the operator have to do some extra things like implementating a reverse proxy and if hosting out of your home make necessary network configuration changes to accommodate this access.

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      2 months ago

      You as server operator also have to check what device your mom has and point her to what app download, because Jellyfin doesn’t have an app for everything