How do you manage accessing multiple Plex and Jellyfin servers simultaneously?
from kiol@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 00:51
https://lemmy.world/post/34885660
from kiol@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 00:51
https://lemmy.world/post/34885660
I run a Jellyfin server, but I have several friends running Jellyfin servers and several more friends running Plex servers. What is the sanest way to go about accessing all of them? How can I get some sort of media overview, even using an external tool like RSS or some other dashboard-like app. Also useful would be a way to search what is on all of the different servers in the same search. Have considered:
- Running a dedicated device (Apple TV, Nvidia Shield, Kodi) and manually clicking between servers with the dedicated client app. This only displays one at a time and is too confusing for non-technical types. Also not totally sure if this is supported…
- Perhaps there is a way to run multiples of the Jellyfin and Plex apps in order to browse between all of these servers on a device like an AppleTV. Treating the client apps like running multiple browser profiles…
- A “dashboard” app could be used to display information from all of these servers simultaneously.
Is there some method I’m missing here? Thanks for the ideas. My current answer is to simply not use most of them out of sheer laziness, but certainly would be cool to better unite access. Everyone has their own solid setup with multiple users, so need to meet them where they are at.
Thanks for any ideas!
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I run multiple Plex servers and just pin libraries to the main screen. It’s pretty straightforward.
EDIT: Oh! Do you mean Plex and jellyfin on the same interface? Sorry, no clue on that one.
Makes sense. Are you able to search through all of the server libraries simultaneously, even just in Plex itself?
Yup. Results come back listing the server the file resides on.
Thanks, makes sense. Definitely an advantage of the Plex pass functionality, but Jellyfin will have to handle it in a different manner.
Plex lets you add multiple servers.
The jellyfin app lets you switch, but maybe not use multiple servers simultaneously. I don’t have a second one I can add to test.
Actually, they have a demo server. Be right back.
Edit: nope, the android app only lets you connect to one at a time.
Thank you for checking!
@kiol You’re going to need a shared directory service if you want that. I believe there’s an LDAP plugin for Jellyfin.
Would that work though? Each server is setup it’s own way, so I am not able to ask them to setup LDAP on my behalf or anything like that. Each server I connect to is already established and in production.
you can change an existing Jellyfin server to use LDAP, yes. it obviously resets your watch history, since your LDAP user would be different than the user you created when Jellyfin was first launched. you would still need to convince everyone to do that though.
This was just posted on Reddit
www.reddit.com/r/JellyfinCommunity/comments/1my7q6p/wip_jellyswarrm_a_reverse_proxy_to_merge_multiple/
<img alt="" src="https://github.com/LLukas22/Jellyswarrm/raw/main/media/library.png"> Oh wow, repo is github.com/LLukas22/Jellyswarrm Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
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Yep, it has already been posted here. Cheers!
lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51773279
Here’s a brand new service for jellyfin, I know it’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but you could pair it with the plex thing
Post inception. That post was linked from this thread, hahaha.
Plex does this by default. Any server that you get invited to and accept just integrates into the UI, search and all.