I’ll be vacationing for a month and want to setup a portable jellyfin server/stack. I’m not sure how good the internet will be, website says 300 mbps, but I won’t know until I’m there, so not sure remote playback is an option. I already have a n100 minipc I bought for a backup firewall, so I’d just need to buy RAM for it.
Here’s what I’m thinking would be the easiest setup for this:
- travel router to vpn to internet
- jellyfin server
- nas os (will probably be truenas/omv, haven’t settled on that yet) using external hard drive (I have a 5tb hdd that’s 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 I’m 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 don’t remember what it was.
Love your edit. Sounds like me, lol.
Why not just host the stack at home and VPN in? Jellyfin is pretty snappy I don’t think you’ll struggle much network wise.
What are you planning on playing it on? Hotel TVs are often locked to their cable boxes, or have the TVs in frames. I’d probably just use a laptop.
Or do vacation things. I can watch TV at home.
I’ll be taking an android tv box with me, so the tv lockdown is a concern. I’ll be taking my laptop w me in case I need it. I considered just installing jellyfin on that too.
i understand the ‘do vacation things’, i like to watch tv while i fall asleep, so there’s that.
Some good things to think about here.
Usually they just disable all the hdmi ports except for cable and don’t bother to lock the final hdmi port to a specific device. So long as you have a long hdmi cable and nimble hands, it’s not too much effort to just pull out the cable hdmi and put in your own.
If you can reach it. I’ve seen hotel TVs mounted in furniture that prevented access without tools.
I download all my content to my laptop/phone and then just run a server from there, either using jellyfin, vlc, or casting software to my firestick.
But since it’s a month long, it’s a decent amount of content. I mean, you’re already planning on buying ram so you could spin up a virtual server for like 15 bucks or less and just use that for a month.
Also since you’re bringing this pc, it doesn’t have to be crazy. I’d just use Windows or any OS you have and serve my content on the network using Jellyfin or VLC. Since it’s jellyfin you can use their clients and avoid transcending, and should be set on a mini pc.
Do you even need to run the server locally? I’m still working on transitioning to Jellyfin but Plex would let you download media to watch offline. Just natively in the app, no need to install the server on the vacation device.
What, exactly, is your end goal? To have a way to play movies that you’re bringing with you on the hotel TV?
VLC is an option I hadn’t considered, I’d still have to get the media on the hdd, but something to consider for sure. I won’t be hosting any showings, this is just for personal viewing.
Yeah, then definitely just install VLC. Far easier than mucking about with Jellyfin.
Yes, mostly just to have stuff to watch without commercials.
Are you aware of findroid? It’s 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, I’ve 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). I’m expecting to have quite a bit of media on the nas since it’ll be for an entire month.
