I am told #proxmox is fab & it is ... but does it make sense to run #nixos #virtualmachines on proxmox: one for each task e.g. #ids #Jellyfin #peertube ? Or is it best to put all one's eggs into 1 single #cpu #ram #storage basket in one bare metal server that does it all? Or what of a #minipc #nixos farm instead? Does that spread risk of downtime due to machine breakdown issues or is maintenance too hard? Any experiments or experiences to report ? Thanks. #homelab #PVE #lxe @homelab

Da ich gestern auch auf #SelfHosting angesprochen wurde...

Nicht jeder hat die Möglichkeit oder das Interesse an SelfHosting. Aber wenn man es "kann" und sich ein wenig unabhängiger machen möchte - es gibt viele Möglichkeiten!

Kleines persönliches Beispiel von mir:

Angefangen hatte ich mit einem ausgedienten Raspberry, auf der ich Nextcloud installierte. Mittlerweile - mit mehreren Zwischenstationen - steht bei mir daheim mit allen selbstgehosteten Diensten ein ausgedienter, gebrauchter Lenovo ThinkCentre, den ich letztes Jahr geschenkt bekommen hatte. Da wir noch eine dazu passende CPU hatten, bekam der ThinkCentre ein feines Upgrade auf einen i7. 😁

Darauf installiert ist Debian in der Minimal-Konfiguration und - weil ich es mir einfach machen wollte - Docker. Darüber habe ich u.a. installiert:

• #BookStack (dient mir als mein persönliches Server-Verwaltungs-Logbuch)
• #Glance (Dashboard)
• #Heimdall (Dashboard)
• #Homarr (Dashboard)
• #Immich (Foto-Verwaltung und Backup, ähnlich Google Photos)
• #Jellyfin (Media Center)
• #Joplin (Umfangreiche Notizen-App)
• #Linkwarden (Bookmark-Verwaltung)
• #Mealie (Rezepte-Verwaltung)
• #OpenCloud (Backup-Cloud für Dateien aller Art, inkl. selbsgehosteten Office, Markdown und mehr)
• #Organizr (Dashboard)
• #SearXNG (Umfangreiche Suchmaschine)
• #Vaultwarden (Passwort-Verwaltung)
• #WordPress (Blogging-Software)

Zusätzlich werkelt darauf auch noch eine #Nextcloud, allerdings nicht über Docker installiert. Ein #Minecraft-Server ist darauf ebenfalls installiert sowie ein #Emulator zum zocken. 😎

Das alles nutze ich mal mehr, mal weniger.

Gerade bezüglich der Suchmaschine SearXNG war ich erst echt skeptisch. Aber ich nutze diese nun schon über ein Jahr und bin sehr, sehr zufrieden damit. Die Ergebnisse sind nicht - wie bei Google z.B. - voll mit zusammengefassten KI-Ergebnissen, die kein Mensch sehen möchte, sondern mit "echten" Ergebnissen.

Meine Fotos landen allesamt bei Immich - eine wundervolle Software, die ich gerne nutze. Auch die OpenCloud, deren Anfänge ich miterleben durfte, hat sich sehr etabliert und ist für meine gesamten Daten absolute Nummer 1 bei mir, da sie schnell und zügig lädt und Collabora Online als #selbstgehostete #Office-Lösung integriert hat.

Auch Bookstack finde ich super nützlich. Wenn ich Änderungen an der Konfiguration der Server vornehme, trage ich diese Änderungen mit Datum und Uhrzeit hier ein und kann später so nachsehen, was ich wann geändert habe. Ebenso habe ich mir in Bookstack Anleitungen hinterlegt, tägliche Checks, die ich auf den Servern durchführe und weitere Dinge, die ich einfach nur schnell per Copy & Paste ins Terminal einfügen kann.

Am Lenovo ThinkCentre angeschlossen habe ich 3 2,5 Zoll HDDs.

Thema Sicherheit: Das alles ist nur für mich in meinem lokalen Netzwerk erreichbar. Ausschließlich. Zusätzlich ist der Login abgesichert mittels #Yubikey (ein kleiner, physischer Hardware-Sicherheitsschlüssel).

Trotz all dieser Maßnahmen bin ich nach wie vor noch an einige Dinge gebunden. So nutze ich z.B. Proton. Auch habe ich meine persönliche Daten an mehreren Stellen als Backup hinterlegt, auch online, nicht nur bei mir selbstgehostet daheim.

Wer technisches Interesse und Verständnis hat, kann also auch diesen Schritt gehen und ein wenig unabhängiger werden, um von Google und Co. wegzukommen.

Und wer noch einen Schritt weitergehen möchte, kann natürlich auch seine ganz eigenes Mastodon, Friendica o.ä. auf seinem Heimserver installieren - auch das ist gut umsetzbar. So kann man sich noch einen Schritt unabhängiger machen. Die Möglichkeiten, digital unabhängiger zu werden sind groß - man muss es nur umsetzen! 😉

#UnfollowBigTech, #DIDit, #DUTgemacht, #DIDAY, #UnplugBigTech

Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.
https://linuxiac.com/after-years-of-waiting-jellyfin-finally-lands-on-samsung-tizen-tvs/

#jellyfin #mediaserver #opensource #samsung

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Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.

Today I learned that #Jellyfin can now handle ebooks and even serve an OPDS feed to my #KOReader device.

No need for a dedicated #OPDS server or #Calibre anymore!

begins watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy while waiting for the snow to start falling. ❄️

#TV #Jellyfin #StarTrek #Snow #Columbus #Ohio

Je suis content : mon instance #Jellyfin commence a bien être adoptée par la famille.

À commencer par ma nièce, qui est contente d'avoir une plateforme d'accès à des contenus sélectionnés, et où elle m'a demandé de lui bloquer l'accès aux films pour plus de 13 ans (information que Jellyfin va choper tout seul !), parce-qu'elle a trop peur… que ça lui fasse peur.

Elle est très raisonnable. :)

Jour 19 : Jellyfin

"Pourquoi tu veux Netflyx ? On a Jellyfin à la maison !" me disait ma grand-mère. Jellyfin permet de parcourir toute sa bibliothèque multimédia stockée sur sa propre machine (NAS, serveur...) avec une interface qui n'a rien à envier aux géants du streaming 🎬
GPL-2.0

#CalendrierDeLApresInfini #LibreJanuary #FOSS #Libre #Jellyfin #Streaming #Vidéo #Autohébergement

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Interface de Jellyfin

#homelab migration to #proxmox fully complete. Managed to get the Synology iSCSI storage setup and migrated the S3 bucket my Mastodon instance uses to it. Not optimal but fine for my small deployment. Frees up space on the local SSD for other things.

Glad I moved away from Hyper-V. This does everything I need and lowers my dependency on Microsoft. Only bit which was slightly fiddly was configuring GPU passthrough to the container host which runs my #jellyfin instances.

@homelab

Quits the comp-fu for the day, and settles in to watch Predator: Badlands.

#Movies #Jellyfin #PredatorBadlands

finally gets around to watching the final episode of #StrangerThings.

#TV #Jellyfin

settles in to watch Tron: Ares, even with the huge red flag of Jared Leto being the lead character.

#Jellyfin #tron

Jellyfin-Updates für Server, Web und Desktop
https://linuxnews.de/jellyfin-updates-fuer-server-web-und-desktop/ #jellyfin #mediaserver #linux #linuxnews

Gets into the holiday spirits with a viewing of #ViolentNight.

#Jellyfin #Movie

Know absolutely nothing about #TheMightyNein, beyond it being a animated fantasy show, but figure I'll relax a bit and watch the first episode.

#TV #Jellyfin

One more thing that really defies my expectations. This is a media LIBRARY. A library is a thing where one organises information to make it findable. So while it is fine to have “recently added” or “recently watched”, and it’s fine to make them prominent, it is not fine to hide the library and the organisation.

These apps offer a zillion ways to organise: recently added, next up, unwatched, related. They don’t show you your library structure. I find it hard to believe there are many people out there like me who have hundreds of films, but DONT organise them. Surely they can’t be the majority. Surely people are not dumping every film into one giant folder and hoping the apps will sort it out.

I know what I want better than they do. Show the fucking hierarchy that I built.
#Jellyfin #movies #selfhosting

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Photo of the movies menu in the infuse app on AppleTV. It offers the following options. All Movies Recently Added Unwatched By Genre By Rating By Release Date By Age Rating By Resolution Feature Films

A funny side-effect is that #Jellyfin has these automatic “collections”. It can figure out through file names or metadata that 2 films are parts of the same thing. That leads to some funny ones thanks to Monsterdon. I have 4 different Godzilla collections based on the studios. I have a “Blacula” collection because we watched both of them for Monsterdon. 😛

This week I am trying to move my #video library from #Plex running on #TrueNAS to #Jellyfin running on TrueNAS.

First impression is that Swiftfin (the AppleTV app) is not good enough. I have 500-600 films in a hierarchy of dozens of directories. Both Jellyfin and Swiftfin dump all that into a pile called #Movies. So my screen has all 500+ films in alphabetical order.

Things like Monsterdon schlocky films are right next to comedies and drama and action.

I want to see my top level folders like Comedy, Action, Kung-Fu, etc. Then I want to descend into them. I can kinda get this in the web UI, but the TV UI is determined by the app.

Other than that, I’m really enjoying it. I love the collections and the automatic figuring-stuff-out. It’s been good.

I love the lack of shoving stuff in my face. Plex of course wants to shove things into my face.

I’m downloading Infuse for #AppleTV to see if it works better.

• donner la carte graphique à un conteneur pour faire du offload pour #jellyfin.

• donner un dongle usb #zigbee à un conteneur pour créer mon serveur #homeassistant (et ne plus dépendre d'un service cloud)

Filebrowser is open for public registration & more testing on the navidrome/jellyfin instances. Drop-in music/media and and watch it populate!

https://upload.gnulinux.studio
https://upload.gnulinux.media

Create an account & test away. Post issues here as replies or DM me. Main site:

https://gnulinux.studio
https://gnulinux.media

User: pubglug
Pass: musicisawesome
Pass: moviesareawesome

#music #opensource #freesoftware #demo #jellyfin #navidrome #debian #sysadmin

Library gets nuked every Monday at 3am.

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screenshot of filebrowser project page

Demo'ing Navidrome and Jellyfin for our Public GNU/Linux Club:

User: pubglug
Pass: musicisawesome
Pass: moviesareawesome

https://gnulinux.studio [music]
https://gnulinux.media [videos]

#music #opensource #freesoftware #demo #jellyfin #navidrome #debian #sysadmin

Come join the fun: https://matrix.to/#/#introductions:gnulinux.club

Each of these instances has an associated filebrowser instance: https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/12/09/setting-up-a-secure-public-facing-filebrowser-instance/

Making uploading, editing, removing, etc., music easy. DMs to test Filebrowser!

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cover of brand new day by lime, on navidrome instance

Jellyfin on FreeBSD - a new great article by @jhx for the BSD Cafe Journal!

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/11/28/jellyfin-on-freebsd/

#Jellyfin #RunBSD #FreeBSD #IT

@jwildeboer @homelab Out of curiosity, why three small machines instead of one more powerful one?

My modest #homelab setup is just a miniPC running *all* my services (#Immich, #Navidrome, #Jellyfin - among others!) I’m thinking about upgrading the server…not sure if I should opt for a more powerful machine or add another miniPC.

This is my servers running at home #selfhost
Two #proxmox servers and one #NAS

The first #proxmox server's hostname: betelgeuse. Running 7 VMs.
The second #proxmox server's hostname: altair. Running 6 VMs.
And last but not least NAS' hostname: orionis. It handles: VMs backup and store some multimedia files for #jellyfin

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Two servers on a shelf.

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Black NAS.

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Black NAS opened.

Y’all… #Pinchflat is awesome! #Linux Unplugged had mentioned it many times, but it’s so much nicer than I realized. As a bonus, integrating the containerized version with #Jellyfin that comes from #nixpkgs was pretty straightforward: https://github.com/genebean/dots/pull/572
[ #FOSS #NixOS ]

My plans for the week:

▪️​ install #DietPi on my old #RaspberryPi3 (https://dietpi.com)
▪️​ flash the #YunoHost pre-installed disk image to a new MicroSD card and attempt to set it up on on my #RaspberryPi5
▪️​ if I'm successful, I'll set up #Jellyfin on it
▪️​ create a little storage system for my microSD cards so I can swap them in and out (I won't wipe the one that has #Ubuntu on it, but set it aside so I can use it in the future)

I have a hunch I will ask 🎅​ for a new Raspi this coming Christmas... maybe the #RaspberryPi500 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Dear Fedi friends,

If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

🔗​: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni

It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).

My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):

"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.

It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.

We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.

I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."

I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.

If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains

#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jellyfin/115443806279582304

Reminder for those of you who might still be on a release prior to 10.11 because you were waiting for a point release, #Jellyfin 10.11 is a major release that reworks your database and migrates it to a different format and everything. Read the 10.11 blog post and make certain you have a backup of everything before you begin the upgrade to 10.11.

#Jellyfin has released 10.11.1 with some bug fixes. If you're using the #Debian repo like I am, it should be available to install.

Link: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.11.1

#SelfHosting

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A screenshot of the terminal window on my server showing that new versions of the following packages are available to install: - jellyfin-server - jellyfin-web - jellyfin

I need some #Linux touchers and #HomeLab gurus to explain in excruciating detail what I'm doing wrong.

I want my #JellyFin server to be served over HTTPS.

I had nginxproxymanager running, but it has stopped working with Let's Encrypt.

What's the *simplest* way to add HTTPS to #JellyFin? It's an Ubuntu box with the default Jellyfin installed (no Docker or anything complicated like that).

Informed speculation welcomed!

Hey fediverse! Is there any FOSS alternative to jellyfin that is not so annoying? That simply shows the file and doesn't require me to rename everything for no good reason?

#jellyfin #MediaServer #FOSS

Brainstorming the easiest and most hands-off way to avoid manually editing my systemd service files to keep services inside their chroot jail even after updating a package, and at least with the Debian package version of #Jellyfin, there's a config file at /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/jellyfin.service.conf that allows you to override the systemd service's default settings. So I just added my custom RootDirectory directive here.

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#Security #Linux

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A partial screenshot of my /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/jellyfin.service.conf file, showing that I've added a "RootDirectory = /mnt/jellyfinchroot" directive.

Spends a little time updating his #Jellyfin container to 10.11.0. 📺

The devs have also reitereated their recommendation that #Jellyfin be hosted behind a reverse proxy and that they'll be deprecating built-in TLS support. They say they'll still provide manual configuration support for the built-in Kestrel TLS system, but configuration options will be removed from the GUI and they really recommend letting your reverse proxy software (Apache, nginx, caddy, etc.) handle TLS. I had tinkered with this before, but ran into issues

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Link: https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#deprecation-of-internal-tlsssl-support

#Jellyfin 10.11.0 has been released and is a fairly major update that will make a backup of your existing installation and then spend quite some time performing migrations in the background that may take up to several hours depending on how much media you have. You can read the release notes for this version here:

Link: https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/

#SelfHosting

Looks like there is work to "federate" #jellyfin. ...Multiple Jellyfin servers sharing content.

One project says, "This Jellyfin plugin allows multiple Jellyfin servers to federate, sharing media libraries in real-time without syncing or copying files. Media can be streamed from one server to another with live transcoding if necessary."

#selfhosting
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-federation-system