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Full disclosure, I'm pretty new to selfhosting myself, and I haven't written a guide like this before, but hopefully this scatterbrained writeup is enough for someone out there lmao

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was a bit of a shitstorm even in the English world. Plex definitely could’ve written the requirements more clearly.

I’m glad a full open-source stack works for you; I wish I could. There’s a few of my Plex users who just couldn’t make the jump to something like Jellyfin (and I’m unwilling to be their tech support), and honestly for me PlexAmp is so good as to make the problems of Plex overall be worth it.

Take care, friend.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

I went for gelli as an android client for jellyfin, work great buy no chrome cast. I think my daughter use some thing like jellyamp which can chrome cast.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I use https://docs.wizarr.dev/ for on boarding user, it helped reduce the need of support. For the worst in tech I Boughy them a HDMI key. Set everything and sent it to them. They just had to connect to their WiFi... Which was pretty hard for some. Buy painless for me, they have childs to do tech support.