Iβll be vacationing for a month and want to setup a portable jellyfin server/stack. Iβm not sure how good the internet will be, website says 300 mbps, but I wonβt know until Iβm there, so not sure remote playback is an option. I already have a n100 minipc I bought for a backup firewall, so Iβd just need to buy RAM for it.
Hereβs what Iβm thinking would be the easiest setup for this:
- travel router to vpn to internet
- jellyfin server
- nas os (will probably be truenas/omv, havenβt settled on that yet) using external hard drive (I have a 5tb hdd thatβs just sitting around)
to get media on nas, docker containers on nas OS:
- radarr
- sonarr
- sabnzbd
Is there an easier way to get media on the nas, or better options (or anything Iβm overlooking) for any of it for those that have done a portable/offiline media server? Thanks in advance!
Edited for formatting
Edit: the consensus seems to be that this is overkill. I had a good reason at some point over just a laptop, but after sleeping on the feedback I donβt remember what it was.
What, exactly, is your end goal? To have a way to play movies that youβre bringing with you on the hotel TV?
Edit: I only all because this seems like a hell of a lot of work just to play movies while youβre traveling, when you could just play them with VLC directly.
Or, if you really want to steam movies to your phone, put VLC on your phone, run minidlna on the computer, and plug it into a GL-iNet Slate Plus.
But if youβre really, like, going to some big get-together and are responsible for media entertainment for a crowd of 20 in a rental, then yeah, taking Jellyfin makes sense. But the hardware doesnβt, unless you make damned sure thereβs nothing thatβll need transcoding. One movie, most CPU/GPUs can manage, but if several people are transcoding multiple movies at the same time, itβll be a fairly beefie machine.
Are you aware of findroid? Itβs an android app that also lets you download the series and watch it in offline mode like other streaming services. Maybe this is an option.
Yes, Iβve used it in the past to download some stuff offline for airplanes, but I think that would be more cumbersome to download that way than automate it using sonarr/radarr, (unless this has gotten better in the past year or so). Iβm expecting to have quite a bit of media on the nas since itβll be for an entire month.
VLC is an option I hadnβt considered, Iβd still have to get the media on the hdd, but something to consider for sure. I wonβt be hosting any showings, this is just for personal viewing.
Yeah, then definitely just install VLC. Far easier than mucking about with Jellyfin.
I agree to just fill up the HDD with media and bring that to play with VLC. Setting up the *arrs and usenet seems like a lot.
Like someone else suggested, maybe just bring a laptop and then you can manually torrent the few new episodes of whatever show youβre currently watching rather than dealing with the automation aspect.
