I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine.

P. S: I usually use VLC on android and MPV on linux to consume the media.

  • mrfbarros@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would look into setting up Jellyfin as others said, there’s multiple guides everywhere but you will need some knowledge for setting up a nice URL in case you want to access it from the internet, that’s when you want to search for things such as free ddns… But it’s quite a lot by then maybe

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      1 year ago

      DDNS is only required for when you want to share it with other people. For accessing your own stuff from anywhere, there’s tailscale. I set aside 30 minutes to read into it and set it up, but found myself with a working VPN between my phone and PC after just 3 minutes. And it’s completely free for this use case.

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        1 year ago

        DDNS takes about the same amount of time to get running these days, something like Caddy + DuckDNS goes together pretty easy. Even for purely personal use, I use DDNS for media access and save the VPN for share access and admin work.

        Either way works though.

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          1 year ago

          I have DSlite on my home internet connection, which makes DDNS pretty much impossible. OP should check for that.

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        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t know how to access Jellyfin through tailscale on a Android tv that is not in the same network, and that wouldn’t necessarily be sharing.

        I think the most relevant thing is that using DDNS implies exposing to the internet which for many self hosters is a big no no. As well if you only want one or two machines , maybe tailscale can be a very easy way to setup… I guess it boils down to the OPs needs.