I will say, I really want someone* to make a Jellyfin aggregator so you can use multiple servers at once.

*Not me.

100% my experience as well. The external authentication requirement is what made my choose Jellyfin a couple years ago.

I was forcing VPN for a couple years but I’ve just recently started allowlisting client IPs instead. Not as good but definitely easier.

I love Stirling PDF. I use it probably once a quarter on average. But it’s always there, ready to be useful.

I’ve been making people use VPN, but that’s been a huge barrier to entry. I’m in the process of switching to IP allow list in traefik.

Looks like you should be able to do so:

https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-as-reverse-proxy-server-to-external-web-server/15619/3

https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-v3-reverse-proxy-to-external-ip/25899

I just get alerts over telegram. They’re just regular notifications, but you could probably set specific notification behavior and sounds for the app?

Edit: Though that’s not a selfhosted solution. Sometimes it’s a decision between reliability and selfhosted. e.g., I went back to Tailscale from Headscale when I lost connectivity through Headscale and couldn’t figure out how to get it back.

If you click the source linked, you can read through all the details.

I use Jump for guests, Homepage for me, and Organizr for both.

I would just get set up on MxRoute and use whatever selfhosted service you want to interact with it.

For movies, try letterboxd.

My opnSense box does the same thing. I’d rather get to it via internal IP like pfSense worked. (I assume I can make that happen somehow, but I haven’t researched it yet.)

Do you see that only when you’re on the LAN or also when you’re coming in from WAN?

Get a new phone for use while traveling, then dump it when you’re back home. Leave your services behind.

No docker? :(

Start with running something in docker. Probably get containous/whoami running, then portainer, then either traefik or caddy.

Once you’ve got that all working, you can run anything you want easily.

If you’ve got an old machine lying around, you can use that to start.

I use a simplelogin domain when my custom one isn’t accepted. (Everything goes through SimpleLogin anyway.)

You don’t need a special client, just a browser. Otherwise, yep!

If you’re carrying your media with you, you could run Jellyfin on the server to provide access to the media to anyone connected to its wifi.

We have a cat that does that too. She’ll drink normally as well, though. I view it as her cleaning her little feet.