I’d like some streaming help please.

I’ve got a linux mint laptop, a windows pc, an nvidia shield and films that I’d like to watch from anywhere. Can you suggest a best way to do this, or any ‘best’ method that I can adopt?

I’ll add that I’m not great at Linux, and all these devices will be on sleep mode when I’m away from home (apart from my nvidia) - which I believe is always on.

If possible I’d like to keep costs down, but I’m open to learning some new stuff.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: tarted up text.

  • Rambler@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Thanks. I couldn’t get plex to run from ‘off site’, it was probably something that I wasn’t doing properly.

    I’m not sure if it was the vpn or not, but it never connected even though I set the tunnelling like it said.

    • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      You don’t need a vpn for this, plex has servers to let you connect to your home computer. I believe it’s called remote connection . Check it out in your plex server settings.

      One of the things that can prevent it from working is called double Nat where your server is behind multiple routers on your network, there are many guides for how to resolve this.

      • Pzulu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        For me it was CG-NAT. Pretty much the same as the double NAT HeavyRaptor has pointed out, just now something you fix yourself.

        I am lucky and for a reasonable price can have a fixed IP for my broadband.

        That made Jellyfin work perfectly, over a VPN using Wireguard.

        It was more difficult setting up Wireguard than it was getting Jellyfin working!