I’ve always been conservative about what kind of services I host because it takes time to get them set up. For example, there’s no reason for me to set up music streaming when I only ever listen to music on my phone and all my music files are already on my phone. On the other hand, it’s a good learning opportunity to set stuff up and have to fix it when it breaks. What do you think?
If something interests you, set it up. If you find you don’t need it, take it down.
That’s pretty much exactly what I have done. I’ve hosted Plex, and Matrix in the past. Plex I will host in the future but Matrix was too much for me to host on my own, but the experience of setting it up myself was definitely worth it.
I recommend checking out Jellyfin instead of Plex. Open source, fully self hosted.
I’m definitely keeping my eye on Jellyfin. Basically waiting for the mobile/tv apps to have more of the features that I personally want, especially on devices like my AppleTV. But it’s definitely a good project that I want to see improve.
@HReflex Have you tried using Swiftfin on the AppleTV? I also use Infuse and its been great with the family.
https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin
I haven’t yet, but when I rebuild my homelab I’ll probably install both Plex and Jellyfin and compare them and see which one I like more. Currently without either as the laptop I was using as a server I no longer trust to be stable
I found jellyfin easier to setup then plex and the dashboard is much nicer. I also love the quick connect option when logging into new devices.
Same here. I tried both on a Raspberry Pi, and JellyFin was easier to set up and seemed to work better, at least within the LAN. I uninstalled Plex as soon as JellyFin was ready to go.
i’d switch to jellyfin if plex wasn’t so polished. i ran into so many issues with jellyfin but plex just worked, even downloads haven’t been an issue for me. im sure jellyfin will improve, but I think it needs more time. Plex also has more client apps available.
i love the idea of more FOSS where i dont need to hit someone elses server to log in so here’s hoping!
Can I ask why the Matrix was too much? I’m thinking of setting up a Synapse docker container.
Well I don’t have a home server at the moment so I was renting out a server for about $40/month. Mostly because it was eating up a bunch of storage, and I was too lazy to swap from digital ocean.
Also I was using the ansible script and at some point I they changed something that required me to set it up again which I didn’t really have the time for.
I will say Ansible was a lifesaver. It made setting up and keeping the server up to date super easy.
I do recommend trying it out tho, just don’t use a domain name that is the same as your username or you will have issues with pings, especially if you share the instance with a friend. Learned that the hard way. Anytime they sent a message anywhere I was at, it pinged me, whether or not they intended to ping me.