WEBVTT 00:00:11.651 --> 00:00:16.231 Hello, friends, and welcome back to your weekly Linux talk show. My name is Chris. 00:00:16.451 --> 00:00:17.331 My name is Wes. 00:00:17.571 --> 00:00:18.451 And my name is Brent. 00:00:18.991 --> 00:00:24.131 Hey, gents. Well, coming up on the show this week, I have finally cracked it. 00:00:24.251 --> 00:00:28.471 I love Jellyfin, but there's been one thing that's been lacking that's kept Plex around. 00:00:28.811 --> 00:00:33.891 Well, I have a wild remote access trick for private self-hosted services like Jellyfin. 00:00:34.191 --> 00:00:39.851 And now I can share my Jellyfin instance with friends and family who can't join my Mesh network. 00:00:40.071 --> 00:00:42.731 It's simple, It's absurd, and it's shockingly effective. 00:00:43.071 --> 00:00:47.411 And then we'll round it out with some great picks, some boosts, and more. 00:00:47.511 --> 00:00:50.371 So before we get into all of that, we've got to give a shout-out to our virtual 00:00:50.371 --> 00:00:52.671 lug. Hello, Mumble Room. Time-appropriate greetings. 00:00:53.271 --> 00:00:55.791 Hello. Hey, Chris. Hey, Wes. And hello, Brent. 00:00:56.071 --> 00:00:59.591 Hey, guys. Hello up there in the quiet listening tune. 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The Great Holiday Home Lab is coming up. 00:02:52.794 --> 00:02:59.474 Pay attention because we're going to need you to submit your home lab to this special. 00:02:59.894 --> 00:03:03.254 And I will have links. I'll have all of it set up for you. 00:03:03.694 --> 00:03:06.334 It's something we're doing in place of the tuxies this year. 00:03:06.454 --> 00:03:09.754 It's our first, very first edition of the Great Holiday Home Lab special. 00:03:10.254 --> 00:03:14.074 And we want to see your setups. It's a magical time of year. 00:03:14.154 --> 00:03:17.414 It'll be coming up before you know it. It's just a couple of weeks away. 00:03:28.554 --> 00:03:33.814 So it is our first community showdown of your questionable wiring your crazy 00:03:33.814 --> 00:03:37.114 tinkering uh maybe your downright impressive builds i don't know maybe you got 00:03:37.114 --> 00:03:43.834 a real clean setup i want you to enter your home lab big or small to linuxunplugged.com slash holiday. 00:03:44.374 --> 00:03:46.034 And it is a Google form. 00:03:47.694 --> 00:03:49.994 Don't think you have to log in, but if you hate Google forms, 00:03:50.174 --> 00:03:54.294 I have a solution for you. It's all available. You can just copy and post into an email. 00:03:54.494 --> 00:03:57.154 Go to linuxunplugged.com slash old fart. 00:03:57.634 --> 00:04:01.754 That's linuxunplugged.com slash old fart. If you just want the markdown version, 00:04:01.914 --> 00:04:04.474 I'd like you to submit a couple of photos, a short description, 00:04:04.714 --> 00:04:08.094 your hardware list, and tell us what your home lab actually does. 00:04:08.394 --> 00:04:11.594 And then you're in. And we're going to have a couple of different categories 00:04:11.594 --> 00:04:14.834 we're going to have the grand rack award which will be 100 000 sats 00:04:14.834 --> 00:04:18.514 we'll have the silver pseudo award which will be 50 000 sats the best effort 00:04:18.514 --> 00:04:23.894 award he doesn't have to be perfect the best effort 10 000 sats and then the 00:04:23.894 --> 00:04:28.894 lup rescue mission one home lab that's in such bad shape maybe you tried a lot 00:04:28.894 --> 00:04:31.854 of heart went into that home lab a lot of effort, 00:04:32.854 --> 00:04:37.014 The three of us, the boys, we're going to get connected on a remote call. 00:04:37.754 --> 00:04:40.174 We're going to run down what's going on. We're going to help you get things 00:04:40.174 --> 00:04:44.694 in working order and do a little LUP rescue mission, for better or for worse. 00:04:44.834 --> 00:04:48.194 I feel like you're talking about my home lab here. Oh, wait, 00:04:48.214 --> 00:04:50.534 we've already done that rescue multiple times. What's going on? 00:04:50.754 --> 00:04:51.754 Why won't that stick? 00:04:52.794 --> 00:04:55.574 You know, it's like the shoemaker whose kids have horrible shoes. 00:04:56.334 --> 00:04:59.034 So, you know, we're probably going to record that session. 00:04:59.334 --> 00:05:02.354 And depending on how it goes, we may turn that into an episode as well. 00:05:02.354 --> 00:05:04.614 If you end up on the LUP rescue mission tier. 00:05:05.234 --> 00:05:07.914 So we're going to have each home lab, we're going to look at its functionality, 00:05:07.914 --> 00:05:10.574 your design, your ingenuity, your creativity. 00:05:10.854 --> 00:05:14.414 Efficiency is a big one too. If you have documentation, that'll matter. 00:05:15.054 --> 00:05:17.614 Your personality, your creative solutions you've come up with. 00:05:17.874 --> 00:05:22.814 We're going to have a zero to 10 per category score. Each one of us will give scores. 00:05:23.474 --> 00:05:26.474 You know, we'll have things like the lowest functionality, but best personality. 00:05:26.754 --> 00:05:30.014 Maybe a disaster story might earn the rescue, something like that. 00:05:30.114 --> 00:05:33.554 So the entries are open right now. I want you to submit your homelab, 00:05:33.754 --> 00:05:35.554 show us what you got, even if it's totally chaotic. 00:05:35.794 --> 00:05:37.834 Hey, my wiring often looks horrible. 00:05:38.274 --> 00:05:41.714 No shame in that. We may judge you and call you out for it, but don't worry. 00:05:41.794 --> 00:05:42.694 A lot of us have it like that. 00:05:43.374 --> 00:05:46.594 We really want to see what you got. So submit it. We'll have links in the show notes. 00:05:46.714 --> 00:05:51.794 And again, it's linuxunplugged.com slash holiday or linuxunplugged.com slash 00:05:51.794 --> 00:05:56.954 old fart for the great holiday homelab extravaganza. 00:06:00.616 --> 00:06:03.676 And do get them in quick, because we're going to be recording our holiday episodes 00:06:03.676 --> 00:06:08.256 before you know it. And I can't wait to see what you guys have come up with. 00:06:09.436 --> 00:06:14.536 We cannot participate ourselves, unfortunately. We'll have to do our own rescues later on our own. 00:06:14.596 --> 00:06:16.116 Been disqualified already. Jeez. 00:06:17.816 --> 00:06:22.236 Okay, so I wanted to solve something that's really kind of been eating at me 00:06:22.236 --> 00:06:26.616 since about two years ago when Alex and I did the Jellyfin January Challenge, I think it was. 00:06:27.676 --> 00:06:31.896 And it'll be two years, I think, this January. And Jellyfin's been fantastic. 00:06:32.076 --> 00:06:34.176 The migration to Plex was really smooth. 00:06:34.456 --> 00:06:38.856 I use infuse on an Apple TV, which sounds like a, why would you do that kind of setup? 00:06:38.976 --> 00:06:42.736 But it actually, after trying all the things really has been just a fantastic 00:06:42.736 --> 00:06:45.136 way to consume media really flawless. 00:06:45.396 --> 00:06:49.516 The two combination are great. And I do take advantage of some jellyfin plugins 00:06:49.516 --> 00:06:52.216 and I use the jellyfin web interface from time to time. 00:06:53.995 --> 00:06:59.555 I've had to keep one Plex instance around because friends and family like to 00:06:59.555 --> 00:07:01.775 sometimes check in on the old media library. 00:07:01.995 --> 00:07:04.615 Maybe they're traveling or whatever, and Plex is installed on a lot of stuff, 00:07:04.655 --> 00:07:06.995 or it's easy to get going on anything that has a web browser. 00:07:07.295 --> 00:07:10.975 And so once or twice a week, friends or family are streaming things from a Plex 00:07:10.975 --> 00:07:12.415 server that I don't actually use for myself. 00:07:13.355 --> 00:07:17.575 And I thought about this problem because when you're at a hotel or, 00:07:17.715 --> 00:07:20.435 you know, it's a friend's computer, you don't necessarily want them to just 00:07:20.435 --> 00:07:21.755 randomly join your mesh network. 00:07:21.755 --> 00:07:26.835 And I don't necessarily just want to build a public Jellyfin server that's available 00:07:26.835 --> 00:07:28.835 on a VPS all the time that's going to get banged on. 00:07:29.095 --> 00:07:34.515 And I don't want to have my ports forwarded on my firewall permanently to my Jellyfin instance. 00:07:35.335 --> 00:07:39.295 And I might want to solve this for other self-hosted software that isn't Jellyfin. 00:07:40.575 --> 00:07:46.735 And so this is a problem that I have tried to figure out for quite a while. 00:07:46.735 --> 00:07:49.375 And obviously something Plex handles really well. 00:07:50.055 --> 00:07:53.395 I know neither one of us none of us are really big Plex users but occasionally, 00:07:54.255 --> 00:07:56.855 you know we might dip in just because of the share feature. 00:07:56.855 --> 00:07:59.815 Yeah absolutely and it's one of those things right where you just kind of got 00:07:59.815 --> 00:08:04.175 maybe folks who were less technical still kind of had a Plex account because 00:08:04.175 --> 00:08:07.515 they had other friends who were sharing Plex just there was a lot of stuff that 00:08:07.515 --> 00:08:11.375 ended up meaning you could get tangentially sucked in and that meant that it 00:08:11.375 --> 00:08:14.675 was also very easy to take advantage of them doing sort of hey, 00:08:15.295 --> 00:08:20.455 we're the SaaS company that's willing to do free proxying for you and host the auth and make it easy. 00:08:20.775 --> 00:08:23.995 Wes, you've had a really nice solution to this that you've used historically. 00:08:24.195 --> 00:08:25.775 I know I've used it a couple of times. 00:08:26.175 --> 00:08:30.175 What, his randomly spin up a jellyfin server, watch a TV show and then destroy it move? 00:08:30.355 --> 00:08:32.835 Quite on demand too. I think you've optimized it as well. 00:08:33.355 --> 00:08:35.435 Yeah. I mean, I did think about this. 00:08:35.895 --> 00:08:39.535 I have a tip. I'm later in the show. I have a tip for how to do this. 00:08:39.615 --> 00:08:41.515 I haven't adopted yet, but that's even better. 00:08:43.227 --> 00:08:49.467 I wanted something that would let us continue to watch the TV shows that we've been watching. 00:08:49.627 --> 00:08:53.027 Like right now, we're watching the first season of Mary Tyler Moore while we eat dinner. 00:08:53.667 --> 00:08:57.687 And if we go out somewhere that has an internet connection on a web browser, 00:08:57.687 --> 00:08:59.947 I would like to be able to stream my Jellyfin instance. 00:09:00.307 --> 00:09:03.507 And so ideally, I wanted to set up with no special VPN required, 00:09:03.507 --> 00:09:08.447 no weird stuff for the user to do, no weird stuff for me to have to do. 00:09:08.527 --> 00:09:12.147 And there's a lot of ways to crack this. And we're going to talk about some after I tell you mine. 00:09:12.647 --> 00:09:15.667 And if you have Tailscale, for example, you could use a Tailscale funnel. 00:09:15.907 --> 00:09:20.487 If you're a pretty big Cloudflare user, you could probably use a Cloudflare tunnel. 00:09:21.467 --> 00:09:25.467 But I wanted to try solving this with something I've never used before but I've 00:09:25.467 --> 00:09:27.907 heard a lot about, and it's a service called Ngrok. 00:09:28.467 --> 00:09:33.127 And it looks pretty straightforward. That's one of the things that appealed to me. 00:09:33.307 --> 00:09:38.047 And it's a self-hosted sort of ingress as a service or a secure tunneling platform on demand. 00:09:38.047 --> 00:09:43.007 And you do run a small agent on your box, and it opens up the outbound connection 00:09:43.007 --> 00:09:48.327 to ngrok's cloud, and then ngrok generates a public URL that forwards traffic 00:09:48.327 --> 00:09:50.747 back to your local service, whatever you might be pointing it at. 00:09:51.087 --> 00:09:53.547 And it also, very conveniently... 00:09:54.513 --> 00:09:59.813 It handles the HTTPS certs. So if you're using it for free, you can use three 00:09:59.813 --> 00:10:05.493 online endpoints and a gigabyte of bandwidth and 20,000 HTTPS requests a month. 00:10:05.613 --> 00:10:10.913 And then they have paid tiers that start around $8 or $5 a month that give you more. 00:10:10.993 --> 00:10:13.593 And that's particularly convenient for a Jellyfin, right? 00:10:13.633 --> 00:10:18.853 Just because not every app, but some combos of certain apps really prefer your 00:10:18.853 --> 00:10:21.073 Jellyfin server to have a TLS certificate. 00:10:21.673 --> 00:10:24.733 Yes. Even if you don't really need one or you don't even care because you're 00:10:24.733 --> 00:10:27.333 just trying to stream media that isn't secret at all, but. 00:10:27.693 --> 00:10:32.213 Yeah, a lot of the mobile apps and a lot of the basic kiosk web browsers, 00:10:32.433 --> 00:10:35.753 which was one of the things that was a requirement is this would work on a basic 00:10:35.753 --> 00:10:37.933 Chromium kiosk browser. 00:10:38.193 --> 00:10:40.933 Also helps for some casting situations if you're going that route. 00:10:41.293 --> 00:10:46.253 Mm, yeah, right, of course. So that was something that I wanted to try, 00:10:46.393 --> 00:10:50.353 but I also needed a way to toggle this on and off because I don't want to leave 00:10:50.353 --> 00:10:52.753 it running when I'm not personally watching TV. 00:10:53.133 --> 00:10:57.693 And this proposes an interesting challenge because a situation we find ourselves 00:10:57.693 --> 00:11:01.933 in, we're at an Airbnb or a hotel and we want to watch some Star Trek. 00:11:02.493 --> 00:11:05.773 I don't want to have to SSH in or I want to be able to toggle it on really quick 00:11:05.773 --> 00:11:09.193 or my wife. I want my wife to be able to do it as well. 00:11:09.513 --> 00:11:12.133 Right. You wanted something where you didn't have to like go manually stand 00:11:12.133 --> 00:11:16.533 up infrastructure or wire stuff together, like not have to set it up with an 00:11:16.533 --> 00:11:20.933 intention before like a big trip. You want to be able to like on a whim on a Saturday. 00:11:21.553 --> 00:11:24.733 Yeah, I didn't I don't want to have my jellyfin server on the public Internet 00:11:24.733 --> 00:11:28.953 all the time, you know, so something I could easily toggle on and off remotely. 00:11:30.250 --> 00:11:31.390 It was really kind of what I was going for. 00:11:32.230 --> 00:11:36.590 So this still feels like you're exposing yourself to the public internet, really. 00:11:36.730 --> 00:11:39.650 Because if you didn't feel like there was some kind of risk, 00:11:39.750 --> 00:11:41.910 you wouldn't need the toggle, right? You just leave it on all the time. 00:11:42.150 --> 00:11:45.630 So does this feel like the ultimate solution or just a step towards? 00:11:46.010 --> 00:11:49.230 Yeah, you're right. I mean, it is still a problem. I mean, it's a really crazy 00:11:49.230 --> 00:11:51.970 ngrok URL, so there's a little bit of obscurity there. 00:11:53.670 --> 00:11:58.550 But then, of course, I do the right thing. And I have a DNS redirect that makes 00:11:58.550 --> 00:12:01.590 it a really simple URL. so that way I don't have to type a crazy NGROC URL into 00:12:01.590 --> 00:12:04.630 a kiosk device, which probably makes it easier to discover. 00:12:05.110 --> 00:12:10.230 This is something I'd be curious to know what solutions I could employ at this stage. 00:12:10.570 --> 00:12:14.270 I could do IP whitelisting, but the issue there is I don't know what IP I'm 00:12:14.270 --> 00:12:16.150 connecting from. It could be cellular network. 00:12:16.230 --> 00:12:20.370 Yeah, and you won't if you're at a random Airbnb or hotel or wherever your cell 00:12:20.370 --> 00:12:21.230 phone gets assigned today. 00:12:21.490 --> 00:12:24.730 And if it was just you, you would use your mesh network, right? 00:12:24.770 --> 00:12:25.890 That's the obvious solution here. 00:12:25.890 --> 00:12:27.270 But yeah do. 00:12:27.270 --> 00:12:30.970 You want to let wes and i connect whenever we want to or whenever we can convince 00:12:30.970 --> 00:12:32.010 you to flick the switch right. 00:12:32.010 --> 00:12:34.950 Yeah it's so that that is i think the 00:12:34.950 --> 00:12:39.730 downside to this setup is for for a period of time there is a way public internet 00:12:39.730 --> 00:12:43.990 could discover your jellyfin server now the way ngrok works is when you go to 00:12:43.990 --> 00:12:48.310 the url at least on the free tier there's a page you have to go through first 00:12:48.310 --> 00:12:52.570 to say yeah i know what i'm doing so that might slow down some automation i I doubt it, though. 00:12:54.010 --> 00:12:59.590 Ultimately, what I rely on is keeping my Jellyfin server secure and up-to-date and isolated still. 00:12:59.770 --> 00:13:02.190 Yeah, I was going to say, like, obviously defense in depth, but there's also, 00:13:02.230 --> 00:13:05.790 you should be realistic about what your actual particular threat scenarios are, 00:13:05.810 --> 00:13:12.230 and, you know, how do you, does your Jellyfin have, uh, is it all just guest accounts and, um... 00:13:12.957 --> 00:13:17.077 Default passwords uh is it does it have access to the rest of your box or is 00:13:17.077 --> 00:13:20.617 it in some sort of container or virtual machine or thing that just has access 00:13:20.617 --> 00:13:24.337 to the media and do you have sensitive stuff in your media or are all things 00:13:24.337 --> 00:13:27.677 to yeah that may make you care more or less depending on 00:13:28.117 --> 00:13:31.417 how you've got it set up if it's just like a dedicated virtual machine that 00:13:31.417 --> 00:13:35.317 only has like a limited stuff mounted in from the host maybe it's not a huge 00:13:35.317 --> 00:13:38.957 deal if it's you know running on your box where you also do all of your backups 00:13:38.957 --> 00:13:40.457 and stuff then maybe it's a bigger deal. 00:13:40.457 --> 00:13:45.377 It does seem like in terms of application complexity because it is a very complex 00:13:45.377 --> 00:13:48.617 application with a lot of stuff under the hood, a lot of FFmpeg, 00:13:48.757 --> 00:13:50.957 and it has access to hardware acceleration. 00:13:51.557 --> 00:13:55.757 You know, of the apps, I'm going to make temporarily public. 00:13:56.177 --> 00:14:00.077 It feels like maybe the dumbest one to actually make temporary public because 00:14:00.077 --> 00:14:03.857 there's, honestly, there's a large attack service, there may be auth bypasses 00:14:03.857 --> 00:14:07.737 for all I know, ways to trigger the server to do all kinds of crazy DDoS indexing 00:14:07.737 --> 00:14:09.717 and transcoding. I mean, who knows? Right. 00:14:09.877 --> 00:14:12.917 I mean, it has to be something you consider in the setup, I think, 00:14:13.377 --> 00:14:18.457 which is why the toggle I felt like was so important, because then I'm at least, 00:14:18.577 --> 00:14:21.137 you know, I'm watching a half hour episode of Mary Tyler Moore. 00:14:21.137 --> 00:14:26.877 Or, okay, so I have a 40-minute window where I have this really crazy obscure URL and all of that. 00:14:27.017 --> 00:14:31.597 But something I would really like input on is layers of protection I could do 00:14:31.597 --> 00:14:38.057 here or some other maybe second-order authentication I could do to enable this, 00:14:38.117 --> 00:14:39.537 to authorize certain connections. 00:14:40.257 --> 00:14:44.357 Like if you have any ideas to boost in or give me a little bit of feedback on 00:14:44.357 --> 00:14:47.797 this because that is something that is not ideal and I do want to disclose it's a risk here. 00:14:48.857 --> 00:14:52.657 But ultimately, I was very, very happy with the setup that I ended up with. 00:14:55.784 --> 00:15:00.804 Unraid.net slash unplugged. 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So check it out, support the show. 00:16:06.744 --> 00:16:09.564 It's unraid.net slash unplugged. 00:16:12.124 --> 00:16:14.624 Well, you mentioned wanting to be able to turn this on and off, 00:16:14.704 --> 00:16:21.124 I'm assuming from the sofa or any sofa in Airbnb or at home and have the wife 00:16:21.124 --> 00:16:22.564 be able to do it, which is, 00:16:22.804 --> 00:16:27.884 it sounds like quite a challenge, Chris, but you said this, you pulled this 00:16:27.884 --> 00:16:30.944 off in a nice way. So I'm waiting to see. What do you got? 00:16:31.544 --> 00:16:33.144 You know, as the years go by... 00:16:34.146 --> 00:16:39.926 My go-to solution more and more for this type of stuff is make a button in Home Assistant for it. 00:16:40.206 --> 00:16:42.846 It's such a flexible, powerful platform. 00:16:43.186 --> 00:16:43.886 Should have guessed. 00:16:44.546 --> 00:16:46.666 Yeah, it works great for this kind of thing. 00:16:46.966 --> 00:16:52.426 And, I mean, maybe not for everyone, but you are already committed to having 00:16:52.426 --> 00:16:56.386 it available and plumbed to basically all of your devices, right? You want that. 00:16:56.586 --> 00:17:00.346 So you're not paying a cost for like a new separate whole, you know, 00:17:00.506 --> 00:17:01.626 bookmark and a whole bunch of stuff. 00:17:01.766 --> 00:17:04.086 True. And it's something I'm already maintaining and making sure it's highly 00:17:04.086 --> 00:17:05.006 available and et cetera. 00:17:05.586 --> 00:17:10.546 But also the thing that played a big factor in my decision making is it's on 00:17:10.546 --> 00:17:11.886 the wife's phone, right? 00:17:11.906 --> 00:17:14.986 The kids know how to use it. So it already has family workflow. 00:17:15.446 --> 00:17:20.586 So I'm adding a button to a thing they're already using. I'm not asking them to go use a new thing. 00:17:20.786 --> 00:17:24.446 And I cannot tell you what a difference that makes in family adoption. 00:17:24.646 --> 00:17:27.286 It's the difference between them using it and not using them. 00:17:27.826 --> 00:17:31.046 So plus it's just really awesome. I wanted a small little button, 00:17:31.066 --> 00:17:36.666 and I already have a dashboard that's for our media playback that has a mock 00:17:36.666 --> 00:17:40.746 remote control, and it has our music assistant controls. 00:17:41.046 --> 00:17:43.506 You can control the different speakers in the house from this one dashboard 00:17:43.506 --> 00:17:47.346 already. So this is where you already go to do TV stuff. 00:17:47.566 --> 00:17:51.726 I'm almost imagining like you have a TV button on the wall that you hit, 00:17:51.826 --> 00:17:55.166 you know, and then it starts the TV up, and then the TV turns on, 00:17:55.286 --> 00:17:57.626 and then the switch is toggled, and you're ready to go. 00:17:57.806 --> 00:18:00.566 Well, I absolutely could. I absolutely could map it to a button, 00:18:00.766 --> 00:18:03.846 right? I could conceivably even map it to just a hardware button that I take with me in my bag. 00:18:03.846 --> 00:18:07.586 Or for the kids, it has a little countdown, and then the button turns red again, and the TV's cut off. 00:18:07.686 --> 00:18:08.366 Yeah, the tunnel turns, yeah. 00:18:09.146 --> 00:18:12.506 I would like to know what you called the device in Home Assistant. 00:18:12.626 --> 00:18:16.046 You probably came up with a good name, or you need a better name, right? 00:18:16.826 --> 00:18:19.246 No, it's just, well, yes, I do. It's just Jellyfin Tunnel. 00:18:19.946 --> 00:18:20.266 Lame. 00:18:20.826 --> 00:18:24.226 Maybe it could be like Media Conduit. I don't know. 00:18:24.326 --> 00:18:27.126 I like that. I tend to give Star Trek names, because then it sticks out. 00:18:27.126 --> 00:18:31.266 You know, like, you know, like media subspace relay subspace media relay, 00:18:31.406 --> 00:18:32.846 something like that could work. 00:18:33.540 --> 00:18:37.060 But the other thing, too, that I didn't want to have to deal with is I didn't 00:18:37.060 --> 00:18:40.780 want to have to do the crazy Ngrok URL every time because I'm not going to remember that. 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:44.240 And I'm picturing like an Airbnb. I'm picturing a kiosk. 00:18:44.320 --> 00:18:47.980 I'm picturing a basic web browser. Or I'm telling a family member over the phone. 00:18:48.040 --> 00:18:49.920 And I don't want to have to give them this crazy URL. 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:55.600 So when I hit this button, not only do I want the tunnel to initiate on a different 00:18:55.600 --> 00:19:01.680 box, but then I also want to retrieve the crazy rando Ngrok URL I just got. 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:06.880 And then I want to go update my Cloudflare DNS entry with a redirect to point 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.860 a static DNS name at this new crazy URL. 00:19:10.080 --> 00:19:13.080 And all of that happens with a push of a button. 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:19.480 And it's so great. And honestly, it was really made possible because I created 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.600 a little REST API with a tiny little Python server. 00:19:23.872 --> 00:19:25.572 I vibe coded. I'll just admit that. 00:19:25.752 --> 00:19:26.032 Oh, yeah. 00:19:26.472 --> 00:19:29.112 Very simple. It's only got like 00:19:29.112 --> 00:19:33.652 four functions. So it's not like it's very powerful or very complicated. 00:19:33.772 --> 00:19:40.332 But what it does is it listens for essentially an HTTP rest request from Home Assistant. 00:19:40.992 --> 00:19:45.652 And that either tells it to start, stop, or check the status or get the URL. 00:19:45.952 --> 00:19:51.072 So in Home Assistant, I can show if the tunnel is active. I can light the button 00:19:51.072 --> 00:19:52.732 up when the tunnel is up or down. 00:19:53.412 --> 00:19:57.532 And I have history of how long the tunnel's been active, when it was activated, 00:19:57.532 --> 00:20:03.432 and I can also display the ngrok URL in Home Assistant if I wanted to. 00:20:03.872 --> 00:20:04.732 Ooh, that's nice. 00:20:04.992 --> 00:20:09.812 Yeah. That's really, really fantastic. I did play around with Cloudflare because 00:20:09.812 --> 00:20:12.772 they don't have the bandwidth limitations until you go too far. 00:20:13.192 --> 00:20:18.272 And because I'm hosting the DNS on Cloudflare, it kind of made sense to just do it all in one place. 00:20:18.372 --> 00:20:22.672 But honestly, the complexity is more significant. And so, and I've just found 00:20:22.672 --> 00:20:23.752 Ngrok to work really well. 00:20:23.912 --> 00:20:28.672 And then in Home Assistant, I created a manual REST sensor. 00:20:28.712 --> 00:20:32.272 And it's just something you add to the Home Assistant config.yaml file. 00:20:32.312 --> 00:20:35.512 And it's probably five lines of YAML. 00:20:35.572 --> 00:20:37.672 And it just identifies a new sensor type. 00:20:38.472 --> 00:20:43.912 And I give it the URLs for the sensor endpoints to go talk to the Python server. 00:20:44.172 --> 00:20:46.772 And then that's how it triggers and reads the state. 00:20:48.892 --> 00:20:52.232 And while it sounds kind of like hacking a bunch of scripts together, 00:20:52.632 --> 00:20:55.912 it's because it's so simple and because I'm using the Home Assistant automation 00:20:55.912 --> 00:20:58.452 and architecture, it works really well. 00:20:58.512 --> 00:21:02.392 So I have the Home Assistant dashboard, which has a switch for the ngrok tunnel, 00:21:02.432 --> 00:21:06.612 which then sends the rest command to start or stop the ngrok tunnel. 00:21:07.332 --> 00:21:12.192 Then using the API, it pulls back the status of the tunnel. It updates the... 00:21:13.147 --> 00:21:16.927 My dns record with that new url from the. 00:21:16.927 --> 00:21:20.407 Status home assistant doing that or your python automation my. 00:21:20.407 --> 00:21:26.107 Python is when the api when after the python script starts the tunnel it retrieves 00:21:26.107 --> 00:21:28.507 the url and updates the dns just right back to each other. 00:21:28.507 --> 00:21:29.287 Gotcha yep. 00:21:29.287 --> 00:21:32.627 Uh but then it delivers that back via the api to home assistant as well. 00:21:32.627 --> 00:21:36.007 And then how does do you have to like set certain stuff in home assistant in 00:21:36.007 --> 00:21:39.267 terms of like fields to pick out of the response is there a standard protocol 00:21:39.267 --> 00:21:42.747 in terms of like you know reading like use this field to tell if it's up or down kind of yeah Yeah. 00:21:42.867 --> 00:21:45.487 Because it's just giving back really simple JSON, like, yes, 00:21:45.647 --> 00:21:50.747 up, down, you know, status is active, inactive. That's basically it. That's all it is. 00:21:51.467 --> 00:21:54.667 It's so nice. But by that, I essentially get status monitoring. 00:21:54.907 --> 00:21:57.727 By looking at the button, I can tell if the tunnel's up or down. 00:21:57.867 --> 00:22:00.767 But then if I want, I can go into the button and I get an additional history 00:22:00.767 --> 00:22:02.887 of all the time the tunnel was used. Right. 00:22:03.726 --> 00:22:08.826 And then what I did is I essentially start that Python API server with a systemd unit. 00:22:09.306 --> 00:22:12.926 So when the system boots, it's just running via systemd, that little Python listener. 00:22:13.486 --> 00:22:17.266 And then that guy also is what interfaces with ngrok's API, right? 00:22:17.346 --> 00:22:19.186 Which is sort of like, hey, toggle this tunnel on. 00:22:19.346 --> 00:22:23.146 And then as long as you have separately that little tunneling daemon running 00:22:23.146 --> 00:22:25.706 and available, it'll pick up on that automatically. 00:22:26.106 --> 00:22:26.506 Yeah. 00:22:27.006 --> 00:22:27.206 Cool. 00:22:27.226 --> 00:22:30.646 And then it's using the Cloudflare API, which I had to go create an API key, 00:22:30.686 --> 00:22:32.966 obviously, for the different zones it needed to manage and whatnot. 00:22:32.966 --> 00:22:39.006 And it's using that to do all the DNS and redirect on my subdomain that always remains the same. 00:22:39.146 --> 00:22:44.226 So I always just go to the same URL and I never have to, I always have a vanity 00:22:44.226 --> 00:22:45.846 URL for it. I never have to worry about any of it. 00:22:45.986 --> 00:22:48.626 And then when we're done, I just pull up the Home Assistant app on my phone, 00:22:49.126 --> 00:22:51.346 tap the button on the media card, on the media dashboard. 00:22:51.726 --> 00:22:55.086 And it takes about 10, 15 seconds and then the tunnel closes. 00:22:55.666 --> 00:22:59.466 That's it. And I had you boys try it this morning and I just told you what URL 00:22:59.466 --> 00:23:03.366 to go to and you do get an NGROC screen. But I'm curious to see what your impressions were. 00:23:03.826 --> 00:23:07.286 I'll start with you, Brantley, since you were probably on the most remote sketch 00:23:07.286 --> 00:23:10.586 connection out of the two. Well, it's just what it is. 00:23:12.226 --> 00:23:15.626 Yeah, I have to say it just felt like the native experience. 00:23:16.186 --> 00:23:18.606 Aside from that NGROC screen that you... 00:23:19.668 --> 00:23:23.108 To say, yeah, yeah, I, you know, I trust the person who sent me this weird, 00:23:23.208 --> 00:23:25.808 crazy link, which I'm not sure I should have answered that. 00:23:25.968 --> 00:23:31.168 But then I just got the, you know, usual Jellyfin interface and stole your credentials 00:23:31.168 --> 00:23:33.368 and it seemed to work perfectly fine. 00:23:33.368 --> 00:23:37.748 There was a little bit of buffering on my end, but I think we figured out that 00:23:37.748 --> 00:23:41.368 that's because it was your box was doing a little bit of transcoding to send it my way. 00:23:41.548 --> 00:23:46.028 Not because necessarily of bad connections, but just because of hardware. 00:23:46.288 --> 00:23:47.748 Is that, was that your assessment as well? 00:23:47.748 --> 00:23:51.188 Yeah, just that Spaceballs was 4K, UHD. 00:23:51.488 --> 00:23:54.588 That was the only thing to test with. Yeah, I couldn't find anything else. 00:23:55.068 --> 00:23:58.608 No, of course not. No, I don't know. So, Wes, I know it's not the most performance 00:23:58.608 --> 00:24:01.928 solution, but if you took out that Ngrok prompt screen, which I think would 00:24:01.928 --> 00:24:06.568 go away if I paid for it, it feels like a pretty seamless solution. 00:24:06.668 --> 00:24:09.468 You wouldn't even know. You just go into any web browser and Jellyfin just comes right up. 00:24:09.468 --> 00:24:12.368 Yeah one thing i wasn't sure that i didn't check when i was looking at it was 00:24:12.368 --> 00:24:18.348 um are you doing like a cloud for flare proxy to apply a correct cert name like 00:24:18.348 --> 00:24:22.348 on that level or does ncroc get that right yeah or maybe jellyfin just doesn't 00:24:22.348 --> 00:24:25.768 care no jellyfin cares but do you tell them because then you're adding your 00:24:25.768 --> 00:24:28.368 own like wrapping layer right i. 00:24:28.368 --> 00:24:32.408 Wonder if maybe it is it is probably also solved it via it must have been solved 00:24:32.408 --> 00:24:33.548 at the cloud level it's just, 00:24:34.566 --> 00:24:36.006 I don't recall going through that process. 00:24:36.446 --> 00:24:41.726 But in any case, at least doing it in the browser, I didn't do a complicated app or Chromecast test. 00:24:41.846 --> 00:24:42.926 You don't have to do a fake search. But it worked just fine. 00:24:43.086 --> 00:24:48.326 Yeah. And it is interesting. You mentioned possible limitations with bandwidth. 00:24:48.546 --> 00:24:51.366 Again, you're using a free plan from a thing, so there's risks with that. 00:24:51.486 --> 00:24:54.626 And I think, as far as I knew, I've never used them extensively, 00:24:54.646 --> 00:25:00.526 but I think Ncroc started from making it easy to expose staging developer stuff. 00:25:00.606 --> 00:25:03.826 I'm working on something developing over here, and I want to do a demo and share that. 00:25:03.826 --> 00:25:08.726 So yeah, so here's my API on my private box is really, yeah, and I, you're right. 00:25:08.906 --> 00:25:12.946 And I do think if you were going for raw performance, Cloudflare is probably 00:25:12.946 --> 00:25:14.866 better because their network's a little more robust. 00:25:15.966 --> 00:25:19.346 And additionally, they don't have that one gigabyte limit on the free plan. 00:25:20.306 --> 00:25:25.366 So there's that. However, I really like Ngrok, so I'm not necessarily inclined to change it. 00:25:25.606 --> 00:25:28.546 Well, and as you saw, right, like it was, the UX was good. 00:25:28.806 --> 00:25:32.206 It was well supported out there. There's a lot of examples. There's API integrations 00:25:32.206 --> 00:25:34.646 for it and all that. So there's a lot of benefits too. 00:25:34.806 --> 00:25:38.806 The cool thing is because I kept the configuration and Home Assistant itself 00:25:38.806 --> 00:25:44.626 to something really basic, it's four or five lines of YAML, I can change out. 00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:49.440 Ngrok and cloudflare and keep the home assistant part working because i just 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:54.300 keep the api endpoints the same if it's if it's ngrok or cloudflare and then 00:25:54.300 --> 00:25:58.760 i don't have to readjust anything in home assistant and it keeps working i tested 00:25:58.760 --> 00:26:01.180 this i swapped out to cloudflare tunnels temporarily, 00:26:02.140 --> 00:26:06.380 and uh you know just kept the api url 00:26:06.380 --> 00:26:09.120 endpoints the same even though now it's not ngrok and it 00:26:09.120 --> 00:26:11.860 works so that flexibility i really love in a sense 00:26:11.860 --> 00:26:14.500 it's modular right the jellyfin the media server it could be plex it could 00:26:14.500 --> 00:26:17.520 be sync thing it could be my my my documentation 00:26:17.520 --> 00:26:20.560 it could be my lube logger it could be any app 00:26:20.560 --> 00:26:23.540 and it can be any it could be ngrok it could 00:26:23.540 --> 00:26:28.500 be funnels it could be channel tunnels it could be any tunneling technology 00:26:28.500 --> 00:26:34.220 you want and then with home assistant it that just stays agnostic as well but 00:26:34.220 --> 00:26:38.860 they all really seamlessly work together and i don't ever manually start this 00:26:38.860 --> 00:26:41.380 tunnel even though i know the command to start the tunnel i don't ever i just 00:26:41.380 --> 00:26:43.480 Oh, I just bring it up on Home Assistant and start it. 00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:47.100 Like this morning when you guys wanted to try it, I just asked the station to that box. 00:26:48.093 --> 00:26:51.433 I'd open up my tab and went over to Home Assistant and I started to tell that one. 00:26:51.453 --> 00:26:52.033 Hit the button. Yeah. 00:26:52.113 --> 00:26:55.053 Yeah, hit the button. Yeah. Well, like you said. 00:26:55.093 --> 00:26:58.773 Right, you get the dashboard, you get the metrics, you get the state keeping, 00:26:59.053 --> 00:27:00.773 all that kind of stuff for free. 00:27:01.793 --> 00:27:06.453 It's nice to solve this problem, but it's not the only way. And Wes, 00:27:06.553 --> 00:27:08.933 you played around with something called Jelly Swarm. 00:27:09.313 --> 00:27:13.833 Yeah. You know, you kind of touched on it earlier. Like you transition to Jellyfin 00:27:13.833 --> 00:27:18.433 and it does a lot that we love. But there's some kind of areas that it doesn't 00:27:18.433 --> 00:27:22.173 really compete with Plex in the same way or kind of offer the same functionality. 00:27:22.973 --> 00:27:28.373 And so I just took this as an opportunity to go look around and see what tooling 00:27:28.373 --> 00:27:31.853 folks were building and working on that might sort of fit. 00:27:32.153 --> 00:27:37.913 And so we'd been kind of curious around like proxies or ways to share servers before. 00:27:38.773 --> 00:27:42.053 So jelly swarm advertises itself as 00:27:42.053 --> 00:27:45.453 a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple jellyfin 00:27:45.453 --> 00:27:49.913 servers into one place if you've got libraries spread across different locations 00:27:49.913 --> 00:27:53.613 or just want everything together jelly swarm makes it easy to access all your 00:27:53.613 --> 00:27:58.513 media from a single interface multiple servers yeah i haven't done that remote 00:27:58.513 --> 00:28:03.733 yeah i've only just got it uh set up but yeah so you can proxy one server or proxy multiple servers. 00:28:03.733 --> 00:28:08.253 Oh i could see us using this for a different uh let's say, purposes. 00:28:08.793 --> 00:28:12.413 Yeah. Unified library access. Browse media from multiple Jellyfin servers in 00:28:12.413 --> 00:28:15.293 one place. Play content straight from the original server. 00:28:15.513 --> 00:28:17.033 Yeah, do you want to try it? 00:28:17.153 --> 00:28:20.853 Yeah. Yeah, I want to try it. You got it up? You got it up right now? Is it working? 00:28:21.033 --> 00:28:23.213 I bet you it's running off his laptop right now. 00:28:23.713 --> 00:28:25.553 Yeah, it is. So don't go crazy. 00:28:25.553 --> 00:28:25.733 I see it. 00:28:25.773 --> 00:28:26.233 Don't go crazy. 00:28:26.313 --> 00:28:29.453 Great. All right. All right. All right. I'm going to just use the traditional 00:28:29.453 --> 00:28:34.233 login. Go ahead and remember. Oh, no. Is that not the traditional login? Oh, is it Chris F? 00:28:34.233 --> 00:28:35.733 No space in the password, too. 00:28:35.953 --> 00:28:39.533 No, of course not. We don't do spaces. We're not here for stinking spaces. 00:28:40.133 --> 00:28:42.953 There we go. I'm in. Boy, it's fast, Wes. That's on your laptop? 00:28:43.633 --> 00:28:43.913 Yeah. 00:28:44.073 --> 00:28:46.893 And then you should, if you, I don't know if you, if you can mute the tab or 00:28:46.893 --> 00:28:49.473 something. I don't know if you want to try it to see if the video will load. 00:28:50.930 --> 00:28:54.010 It's spinning and loaded, boom, right into Deep Space Nine. 00:28:54.110 --> 00:28:54.790 Yeah, all right. 00:28:54.930 --> 00:28:56.250 Season 2, episode 13. 00:28:56.650 --> 00:28:57.390 Armageddon game. 00:28:58.230 --> 00:29:01.170 Wes Sneaky had me test this last night without your knowledge, 00:29:01.230 --> 00:29:04.290 Chris, because he knew he was working on a competing solution, 00:29:04.290 --> 00:29:05.750 and I think he wanted to win. 00:29:07.190 --> 00:29:11.110 I got to say, between the two, Wes is a little smoother. 00:29:11.370 --> 00:29:14.550 There's no, like, yes, I need to trust this crazy human URL, 00:29:14.550 --> 00:29:16.790 and also it loaded pretty quick. 00:29:17.110 --> 00:29:21.930 But the coolest feature I saw was user mapping. Wes, you want to write us through that? 00:29:22.470 --> 00:29:22.830 Oh. 00:29:23.010 --> 00:29:27.710 Yeah, actually, Chris, if you pull that URL back up, if you add slash UI to it, 00:29:29.304 --> 00:29:32.124 I think it'll take you to the management interface. 00:29:33.784 --> 00:29:36.844 Oh, yes, it does. The Jelly Swarm admin interface. 00:29:37.004 --> 00:29:39.944 And then same password, but use Wes as the username there. 00:29:40.224 --> 00:29:45.944 I do love our security practices. Okay. Is it Wes P or is it just Wes? 00:29:45.944 --> 00:29:49.024 No, just W-E-S. It should be. Oh, no, it's admin. Sorry, it's admin. 00:29:49.124 --> 00:29:52.104 Now we know what Wes's password is. All right, now we are in. 00:29:52.644 --> 00:29:54.804 I see. So I have one server listed. Yeah. 00:29:55.004 --> 00:29:58.124 Yeah, so this is Jelly Swarm. It's a Rust-based app. 00:29:58.504 --> 00:30:01.904 It's got like just a little minimal web server that it hosts as well as being 00:30:01.904 --> 00:30:06.284 a proxy that shows its own full Jellyfin UI and so it's pretty simple right 00:30:06.284 --> 00:30:08.424 now, really early days for the project I think. 00:30:08.964 --> 00:30:11.944 But yeah, you've got servers you can configure users and then some basic settings. 00:30:12.124 --> 00:30:14.904 So the first thing you do of course is well what are you proxying? 00:30:15.024 --> 00:30:19.204 And so this is where it's being proxied over a mesh network back to my laptop. 00:30:19.464 --> 00:30:22.424 But you can see here where you could add multiple ones. They have a priority 00:30:22.424 --> 00:30:23.464 field which I haven't played with. 00:30:23.544 --> 00:30:24.884 How are you getting this public to the internet? 00:30:24.884 --> 00:30:30.064 For this demo, the proxy is running on a VPS. 00:30:30.124 --> 00:30:31.044 A VPS. I see. 00:30:31.504 --> 00:30:34.964 And then talking over the mesh network back to my server at home. 00:30:35.124 --> 00:30:39.704 That is a very nice solution. So you have a VPS that's got a mesh network interface, 00:30:39.704 --> 00:30:42.984 and then it can proxy these. And it works really well. 00:30:43.884 --> 00:30:47.864 And it's like three fields to add a new Jellyfin server to this, 00:30:47.944 --> 00:30:49.204 as long as it can access it. 00:30:49.304 --> 00:30:52.504 And then if you go to the users tab, you'll see one thing that's interesting is, 00:30:53.786 --> 00:30:57.826 it does a layer of mapping. So it has its own directory of users, 00:30:57.826 --> 00:31:02.266 and then you choose how to map those onto the credentials to the actual Jellyfin 00:31:02.266 --> 00:31:04.266 servers that it's being proxied to. 00:31:04.646 --> 00:31:10.266 So I was able to map both of your guys' fake proxy accounts onto the one Wes 00:31:10.266 --> 00:31:12.326 account that I have on my actual Jellyfin server. 00:31:12.486 --> 00:31:12.826 Yeah. 00:31:13.046 --> 00:31:16.486 And you could do it other ways too, right? But that gives you a lot of flexibility, I think. 00:31:16.686 --> 00:31:20.446 Wow, that's great. This is really, really cool. Huh. 00:31:20.566 --> 00:31:23.186 Now, one downside I saw in this early version, I don't know if they're going 00:31:23.186 --> 00:31:24.206 to try to fix that or what. 00:31:24.686 --> 00:31:29.546 One part, I did have to still set up like a full forward to my Jellyfin instance, 00:31:31.126 --> 00:31:35.346 because everything worked in terms of being fully proxied through JellySwarm, 00:31:35.506 --> 00:31:37.506 except when I would try to play the media. 00:31:37.686 --> 00:31:41.306 And it looked like for that, it was still ultimately getting served a link to 00:31:41.306 --> 00:31:42.626 the backing Jellyfin server. 00:31:43.446 --> 00:31:46.706 So if you knew the right, if you were watching the network traffic, 00:31:47.306 --> 00:31:51.666 you could go figure out like where the backing server is that's being proxied 00:31:51.666 --> 00:31:55.306 from that same VPS, but you don't have an account for it because you have credentials 00:31:55.306 --> 00:31:57.186 that are only valid for the proxy. 00:31:57.526 --> 00:32:01.086 And I think eventually, right, it could be that this is able to proxy the media too. 00:32:01.446 --> 00:32:04.566 I don't know what the full plans are there. So there are some caveats, but... 00:32:05.144 --> 00:32:07.944 I was impressed, honestly, with how well it worked. I was able to test it with 00:32:07.944 --> 00:32:10.604 doing a Chromecast here at the house. That was totally fine. 00:32:10.744 --> 00:32:13.564 And it works just fine with the Android Jellyfin app, too. 00:32:13.764 --> 00:32:16.564 Well, I see it's still actively updated. It's kind of a new project, 00:32:16.784 --> 00:32:20.204 but it's under active development. Last four days ago, things were created in 00:32:20.204 --> 00:32:21.064 last week, a bunch of stuff. 00:32:21.384 --> 00:32:25.944 And it's GPL 2.0. It is Jelly Swarm. Bring all your Jellyfin servers together. 00:32:26.084 --> 00:32:28.244 I think this is the route I'm actually going to go for Jellyfin. 00:32:28.864 --> 00:32:31.584 Because then we could also, over time, we could add each other's servers, 00:32:31.624 --> 00:32:32.904 which sounds like a lot of fun. 00:32:33.324 --> 00:32:37.264 And then this tunnel thing I've come up with seems useful for other types of 00:32:37.264 --> 00:32:39.444 self-hosted services that I want to temporarily make available. 00:32:39.704 --> 00:32:45.924 I like Jelly Swarm a lot. So it's LukeS22 on GitHub and we'll put a link to this in the show notes. 00:32:46.044 --> 00:32:49.384 I did also see just a quick smattering of other things that we should, 00:32:49.644 --> 00:32:51.044 that maybe were worth checking out. 00:32:51.384 --> 00:32:51.664 Yeah, yeah. 00:32:51.924 --> 00:32:55.384 Sadly, it has not been updated yet for the latest, like Jellyfin just had that 00:32:55.384 --> 00:32:58.444 big new release with the database upgrade and all that. 00:32:58.744 --> 00:33:04.904 So 10.11, that doesn't support it, But there is a flake out there called declarative jellyfin. 00:33:05.204 --> 00:33:06.444 Oh, this is up your alley. 00:33:06.664 --> 00:33:11.264 Yes, right? So basically you can define all your jellyfin stuff in your NixOS setup. 00:33:12.044 --> 00:33:15.764 So once that's updated for the new 10.11 version, I think that's going to be 00:33:15.764 --> 00:33:19.524 killer, especially if you wanted to quickly automate standing these kind of 00:33:19.524 --> 00:33:22.104 things up, or you just wanted to have a more maintainable jellyfin. 00:33:22.244 --> 00:33:25.404 You found some good ones. You got a couple of other good ones in here, Wes. 00:33:25.584 --> 00:33:29.464 So check out JellyHub. It's a web app that allows you to fetch media from all 00:33:29.464 --> 00:33:32.504 of your jellyfin servers and regroup it into one place. 00:33:32.584 --> 00:33:37.084 So there's one place to search for a specific media and tells you on which server 00:33:37.084 --> 00:33:38.644 the desired media is located. 00:33:38.804 --> 00:33:42.324 So you could kind of see some combo of like Jelly Swarm and Jelly Hub. 00:33:43.444 --> 00:33:46.744 Maybe that starts to get you a little more to like the Plexus. 00:33:46.744 --> 00:33:51.064 Oh my gosh, this is so great for me because I have a couple of disparate, 00:33:51.304 --> 00:33:53.764 smaller Jellyfin servers and then ideally- Subfins. 00:33:53.784 --> 00:33:54.084 Of course. 00:33:54.484 --> 00:33:57.104 Right, subfins. And then you'd have like a central fin at the server, 00:33:57.404 --> 00:34:01.504 like the main fin, the main that. And it's also GPL3, JellyHub. 00:34:02.411 --> 00:34:07.571 I also found Jellyman and Jellyroller, which are both like a set of scripts 00:34:07.571 --> 00:34:11.631 and or CLI utilities meant to like help manage your Jellyfin. 00:34:11.811 --> 00:34:15.911 So if you do start automating and rolling things out, you can check those out. 00:34:16.051 --> 00:34:20.291 And the docs were entirely in Chinese. So I did my best to translate it. 00:34:20.391 --> 00:34:23.771 But MB to local player, which is something I've wanted before, 00:34:23.851 --> 00:34:26.351 because one of the great things about Jellyfin, right, is it makes it super 00:34:26.351 --> 00:34:30.651 easy to just download or to get direct stream access to the media without having 00:34:30.651 --> 00:34:32.291 to fuss with its UI or anything. 00:34:32.411 --> 00:34:39.551 Well mb to local player basically automates doing that but with hooks to like 00:34:39.551 --> 00:34:43.671 go back and try to sync your watched status which is what you lose if you take 00:34:43.671 --> 00:34:44.711 things out of the whole system. 00:34:44.711 --> 00:34:45.531 Oh that's brilliant. 00:34:45.531 --> 00:34:49.351 So imagine just like using mpv to watch your video locally while you're working 00:34:49.351 --> 00:34:52.471 at your desk and then still have that data in the system. 00:34:52.471 --> 00:34:57.971 Wow nice finds very nice we'll have links to all of that in the show notes of 00:34:57.971 --> 00:35:00.871 course also would love to hear your 00:35:00.871 --> 00:35:05.411 crazy network tunneling solutions and security solutions for my setup. 00:35:05.671 --> 00:35:09.751 Like, you know, maybe if I keep using this, I should build in some security. 00:35:09.951 --> 00:35:13.111 So boost in and let us know. 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It says, greetings to all, long time no boost. 00:40:33.474 --> 00:40:38.954 I'm left behind, currently in the middle of episode 639 and slowly crawling 00:40:38.954 --> 00:40:40.454 my way to the most recent one. 00:40:40.774 --> 00:40:45.014 Chris, not sure you decided on a home assistant machine, but I have the blue 00:40:45.014 --> 00:40:47.534 and it's been rock solid for four years? 00:40:48.074 --> 00:40:48.214 Yeah. 00:40:48.774 --> 00:40:49.014 Wow. 00:40:49.374 --> 00:40:55.434 It's an Odroid N2+, which on paper it sits at 2.2 watts idle and 6 watts at 00:40:55.434 --> 00:41:01.894 full load. I have it connected via PoE and I can see it sips 2.32 watts right now. 00:41:02.074 --> 00:41:04.634 As for Zigbee, I have an Ethernet adapter. 00:41:04.894 --> 00:41:06.754 Not sure you can go that route, though. 00:41:08.274 --> 00:41:12.014 Yeah. Yeah. And also, he says, do you still use Plex? 00:41:12.154 --> 00:41:18.674 Yes, because of the remote streaming. Well, so far. But check out WatchState, which will sync them. 00:41:18.894 --> 00:41:23.114 A tool primarily to sync your backends. User PlayState, which is really the 00:41:23.114 --> 00:41:24.834 thing that's really the big deal. 00:41:24.834 --> 00:41:26.954 Yeah, and traps a lot of people where they are. 00:41:27.274 --> 00:41:29.654 Plex, Jellyfin, and Embe. Embe. 00:41:30.454 --> 00:41:30.834 Embe. 00:41:30.974 --> 00:41:36.874 How about that? Yep. And they hit their version 1.0 stable release on October 29th. 00:41:36.994 --> 00:41:40.234 There's another great tip. That's a good one. I didn't know about that. 00:41:42.054 --> 00:41:43.914 There's no reason not to have your watch state synced. 00:41:44.134 --> 00:41:47.854 Yeah, you've been manually syncing it yourself, watching the episode twice, the whole thing. 00:41:47.954 --> 00:41:49.654 Fucking animal. Yeah, I just watched them again. I don't know. 00:41:50.494 --> 00:41:56.194 By the way, just a quick aside. The Home Assistant Blue is what runs the studio's 00:41:56.194 --> 00:41:57.194 Home Assistant automation. 00:41:57.454 --> 00:42:02.294 And it has been very solid. It's not crazy powerful, but the needs here are not as much. 00:42:02.794 --> 00:42:05.414 So, yes. So I will say, I don't know if they sell it anymore, 00:42:05.434 --> 00:42:07.594 but I will say it has been a very solid machine. 00:42:07.874 --> 00:42:10.794 I've been very grateful for the Blue. And I bought it as soon as they announced 00:42:10.794 --> 00:42:12.014 it. Don't tell you that much. 00:42:13.494 --> 00:42:16.274 Marcel's here with a row of McDucks. How about that? 00:42:19.434 --> 00:42:20.514 22,222 sats. 00:42:23.212 --> 00:42:26.132 That was way too cheap of a baller boost, so I have some more sats. 00:42:26.552 --> 00:42:32.152 Thanks for taking a look at my setup last week after the show and the post-show. 00:42:32.552 --> 00:42:35.092 You had a refreshingly balanced take. Still not sure what I'll do. 00:42:35.232 --> 00:42:40.212 I'm really reluctant to run it in a VM. So far, I've needed that software again. Oh, yeah. 00:42:40.652 --> 00:42:45.012 Right. At the end of the last episode, we took a look at STM32CubeProgrammer, 00:42:45.012 --> 00:42:47.732 which was proving quite difficult to run on Nix. 00:42:48.252 --> 00:42:51.892 Indeed. Indeed. Indeed. Let us know. Keep us posted. VM could be a way. 00:42:51.952 --> 00:42:52.912 Maybe a container. I don't know. 00:42:53.212 --> 00:42:57.832 Our pal and buddy Jeff comes in with 14,000 sats. 00:43:03.341 --> 00:43:10.881 Simple request this time i want to hear that live pew sound yeah that hits thank. 00:43:10.881 --> 00:43:12.081 You pj appreciate that. 00:43:12.081 --> 00:43:16.521 Well distro stew came in with 11 101 sats, 00:43:18.861 --> 00:43:22.001 is that a row of sticks thanks for roasting my 00:43:22.001 --> 00:43:25.121 configs i use git a little differently though sync 00:43:25.121 --> 00:43:27.941 thing is my source of truth my desktop is kind 00:43:27.941 --> 00:43:30.761 of the command center so i mostly edit the configs from my 00:43:30.761 --> 00:43:33.541 other headless servers there then in a server 00:43:33.541 --> 00:43:38.781 terminal i just have it run the rebuild switch since the configs instantly sync 00:43:38.781 --> 00:43:43.301 every month or so i'll actually commit to git but this is mostly just for sharing 00:43:43.301 --> 00:43:48.221 i generally think git is too much overhead i don't want to think about commits 00:43:48.221 --> 00:43:52.141 merges or reverts just to update a package on the system oh. 00:43:52.141 --> 00:43:54.321 Fighting words wes fighting words. 00:43:54.321 --> 00:43:54.901 Actually. 00:43:55.061 --> 00:43:57.461 I was going to say, I love this. Thank you for sharing, DistroStu. 00:43:58.841 --> 00:44:03.821 I love that we have the kind of audience that takes the tools and uses them 00:44:03.821 --> 00:44:06.381 however they want, right? Yeah, sure. Totally great for this. 00:44:07.221 --> 00:44:08.461 But when I do it that way. 00:44:09.061 --> 00:44:13.001 You can combine the two in a variety of useful ways. 00:44:13.261 --> 00:44:14.741 It's fine for them, just not for me. 00:44:15.021 --> 00:44:20.921 Well, hey, I've got to be the Chris config bar raiser. DistroStu's got lots 00:44:20.921 --> 00:44:22.941 going on already. She's got a great config. 00:44:22.941 --> 00:44:26.761 All right, all right. Okay, all right. A dude trying, thank you Distro Stu. 00:44:26.961 --> 00:44:30.601 A dude trying stuff comes in with a row of ducks. That's 2,222 sats. 00:44:31.601 --> 00:44:34.721 Well, I love the idea of the home lab holidays. I'm currently trying to get 00:44:34.721 --> 00:44:38.901 everything into IAC and pivoting my home lab to Bootsy. 00:44:40.141 --> 00:44:42.001 Oh, interesting. That's awesome. 00:44:42.201 --> 00:44:46.021 Side note, how many sats to add that bit of Chris saying IDK how the world works 00:44:46.021 --> 00:44:47.681 to the soundboard? I find that too relatable. 00:44:48.061 --> 00:44:50.681 Well, somebody's got to track it down. Did I say that? Because that does feel... 00:44:50.681 --> 00:44:52.881 Yeah, if you've got a flak file for us, I mean... 00:44:52.941 --> 00:44:53.841 Send us a flack. 00:44:54.081 --> 00:44:55.201 I can bribe the soundboard guy. 00:44:55.701 --> 00:45:00.361 Yeah, Wes does have connections. Thank you, dude, trying stuff. Appreciate that boast. 00:45:01.081 --> 00:45:05.661 Retro Gear comes in with 8,555 sets. 00:45:08.744 --> 00:45:14.364 Gents, check out GitHub, SalmonNet, it's called, it's a project under that org, 00:45:14.684 --> 00:45:19.184 Proxmox-NixOS, because it actually works pretty well. 00:45:19.544 --> 00:45:24.344 I'm running a few VMs on there that can't be done with modules or Docker containers. Cheers. 00:45:24.984 --> 00:45:30.564 Oh, and on SoundBytes, have any of you seen Spies Like Us with Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd from 1985? 00:45:31.044 --> 00:45:32.984 Full of absolute crackers. 00:45:33.304 --> 00:45:36.844 Check it out. I do know of the movie. I have not seen it. I have not seen it. 00:45:36.844 --> 00:45:38.544 But I think there's going to be... 00:45:38.544 --> 00:45:40.304 Well, maybe you could just go put it on your shared jellyfin for us. 00:45:40.524 --> 00:45:43.484 Right? And sit down with the clip machine and just watch the movie, 00:45:43.544 --> 00:45:48.344 it sounds like. That's pretty great. Thank you, Retro Gear. Good to hear from you. 00:45:48.504 --> 00:45:51.744 Yeah. I mean, I have not yet dared to try Proxmox Next OS. 00:45:51.924 --> 00:45:54.884 But if I was going to go Proxmox, obviously, that's how I'd want to do it. 00:45:54.984 --> 00:45:57.804 And so having an experience report is super useful. 00:45:58.324 --> 00:46:01.204 Okay. All right. This is Proxmox Next OS. us. 00:46:02.524 --> 00:46:07.524 We have a boost here from Dirt Ferguson, 13,333 sets. 00:46:10.704 --> 00:46:16.564 For the home lab holidays, consider a category of systems that do the most with the least. 00:46:17.904 --> 00:46:23.444 Oh, yeah. I definitely think you don't have to have a crack and crazy home lab to enter the contest. 00:46:23.744 --> 00:46:26.484 You know, it could be a laptop or a pie. It could, you know, 00:46:26.524 --> 00:46:29.324 it's just, it's sort of a little bit about what you're getting done with it 00:46:29.324 --> 00:46:31.184 too. Now, of course, We'd love to see the crazy cool setups. 00:46:33.058 --> 00:46:37.678 I mean, you know, sometimes your home lab's a tiny computer in a drawer. Still send it in. 00:46:38.018 --> 00:46:42.138 Crazy cool doesn't preclude the eccentric. I'm open to that. 00:46:42.318 --> 00:46:48.098 No, I think it, in fact, should encourage the eccentric. That's how I'll be scoring, personally. 00:46:48.838 --> 00:46:53.118 Thank you, Turd. Appreciate that. Chloroflore is here with 8,000. One, two, three sats. 00:46:54.238 --> 00:46:57.138 How about that? I don't know, Brent. I think there might be a message in there. 00:46:59.258 --> 00:47:01.078 Best secret port boost. 00:47:01.418 --> 00:47:01.718 Oh. 00:47:02.218 --> 00:47:05.238 Ooh, I think he's giving me a message there. You know what I mean? 00:47:05.878 --> 00:47:06.658 Hey, I know that board. 00:47:06.778 --> 00:47:08.798 Because that's the 8123, the Home Assistant? 00:47:09.018 --> 00:47:10.178 The Home Assistant board. 00:47:10.338 --> 00:47:12.098 I think it's the Home Assistant board, isn't it? Let me double check. 00:47:12.098 --> 00:47:14.458 I got it right here. 8123, yeah. 00:47:15.078 --> 00:47:18.918 I got it in a tab. All right, thank you everybody who boosted in, 00:47:19.118 --> 00:47:21.578 including those of you who streamed them sats as you listened. 00:47:21.858 --> 00:47:27.598 In fact, 28 of you collectively helped to stack 53,513 of them Satoshis. 00:47:27.598 --> 00:47:34.958 When you bring it all together, we got 221,137 sats. That's a pretty cool number. 00:47:36.338 --> 00:47:41.158 221-137. We really appreciate it. There's a lot of ways to support the show 00:47:41.158 --> 00:47:42.538 because it's a value for value podcast. 00:47:42.678 --> 00:47:45.758 Your time, your talent, and your treasure are all very much appreciated. 00:47:46.358 --> 00:47:50.378 Show's been going on for a long time now, y'all. And one of the reasons is because 00:47:50.378 --> 00:47:53.698 our audience has made it possible between the interactions we get in the community, 00:47:53.798 --> 00:47:57.338 the support we get via the boost and the membership, but also your listenership. 00:47:57.598 --> 00:47:59.738 It means a lot to us. We really appreciate it. 00:48:00.018 --> 00:48:03.478 Fountain FM makes it really easy to boost these days. There's also ways you 00:48:03.478 --> 00:48:05.638 can go on the self-hosted Sovereign route with AlbiHub. 00:48:05.838 --> 00:48:09.978 Go pick out a new podcast app at podcastapps.com. 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It's called Subgen, and it auto-generates subtitles, 00:48:46.850 --> 00:48:50.930 Subgen, for your media, be it Jellyfin, Plex, XMBC. 00:48:51.110 --> 00:48:54.610 I don't know what you're using these days with your Xboxes and your media centers, but it'll do it. 00:48:54.730 --> 00:48:58.890 It'll generate subtitles and create a .srt subtitle for any media file that 00:48:58.890 --> 00:49:03.890 you add, and it can be then read by your, assuming you've got something that 00:49:03.890 --> 00:49:05.850 understands SRT files. It's pretty nice. 00:49:06.070 --> 00:49:08.810 You found this, Wes, and of course it's a Python app. It's been a minute. 00:49:08.990 --> 00:49:12.950 I'm assuming the way to use this is to process all your media files ahead of 00:49:12.950 --> 00:49:15.850 time or trigger it if you're getting some new stuff. 00:49:16.010 --> 00:49:21.290 But I'm assuming with some of the Whisper models being so efficient, 00:49:21.290 --> 00:49:24.430 you can also use this in real time if you have the right pipeline. 00:49:24.670 --> 00:49:24.810 Yeah. 00:49:25.050 --> 00:49:26.710 Ooh, special. I like it. 00:49:26.710 --> 00:49:32.230 I think you could. I think you could. Again, can we all just get on board with buffering? 00:49:32.530 --> 00:49:37.370 Like start your movie and i'm not now for your land you shouldn't have to but 00:49:37.370 --> 00:49:40.770 when it comes to content or anything that's getting auto-generated or internet 00:49:40.770 --> 00:49:45.530 streaming can we just buffer a little bit let me buffer so many media apps kill this why. 00:49:45.530 --> 00:49:48.670 Am i paying for this ram if you're not going to fill it with pre-cached. 00:49:48.670 --> 00:49:52.810 Video a lot of the media services used to buffer more and now they buffer less you. 00:49:52.810 --> 00:49:56.690 Know i think we bring back that um flash youtube player because it would buffer. 00:49:57.410 --> 00:49:58.870 Bring back buffering i. 00:49:58.870 --> 00:50:02.530 Feel like if you just played an ad before you got your jellyfin media playing 00:50:02.530 --> 00:50:05.590 then you could do the buffering during the ad time have you considered this. 00:50:05.590 --> 00:50:09.030 That would be really really cool we need a jellyfin. 00:50:09.030 --> 00:50:11.410 Plugin that adds our own dynamic ads into. 00:50:11.410 --> 00:50:11.710 It yeah, 00:50:12.569 --> 00:50:16.789 so there is speaking of jellyfin though west there is some jellyfin like integration 00:50:16.789 --> 00:50:19.069 you can kind of do with the jellyfin webhooks plug-in. 00:50:19.069 --> 00:50:21.769 Yeah i'm impressed with this thing just because it is like you can use it 00:50:21.769 --> 00:50:24.449 in bizarre or plex or mb but with jellyfin you pretty 00:50:24.449 --> 00:50:27.189 much just use the webhooks plug-in which is standard i think 00:50:27.189 --> 00:50:29.909 that's just to like be able to communicate like when 00:50:29.909 --> 00:50:33.529 you add new media jellyfin find stuff it can go ping subgen and 00:50:33.529 --> 00:50:36.349 then as long as subgen has like the same mounts for the file so 00:50:36.349 --> 00:50:39.309 it has the same paths that jellyfin shares then it 00:50:39.309 --> 00:50:42.069 can go off and generate the SRTs and like 00:50:42.069 --> 00:50:45.029 you know obviously this software like there's robust support for 00:50:45.029 --> 00:50:47.989 subtitles especially if you're getting them from sources or standard media 00:50:47.989 --> 00:50:51.289 items that have those out on the internet or if you're doing pinch flat 00:50:51.289 --> 00:50:56.269 and your youtube sucking in software like does that for you but if you're like 00:50:56.269 --> 00:50:59.669 me and you frequently go crazy and stand up wild jellyfin servers you might 00:50:59.669 --> 00:51:02.689 not have signed in to open subtitles you might not have copied everything you 00:51:02.689 --> 00:51:06.929 know like you might having a subtitle method of last resort or for random mp4 00:51:06.929 --> 00:51:09.169 files you want to stick there. It just seems great. 00:51:09.878 --> 00:51:13.758 Very often. And, you know, like one of my kids, they just prefer to watch the 00:51:13.758 --> 00:51:17.078 movies with the subtitles and not all of it has it. So it's really nice to have this as an option. 00:51:17.278 --> 00:51:21.558 It's MIT licensed, 98.8% all snake. 00:51:21.818 --> 00:51:24.958 And you can find a link to subgen in the show notes. 00:51:25.058 --> 00:51:28.138 Now, Wes, if we said something that somebody wanted to go back and find, 00:51:28.318 --> 00:51:31.558 or if they wanted to replay a segment, we probably have resources they could 00:51:31.558 --> 00:51:32.418 take advantage of, right? 00:51:32.418 --> 00:51:38.258 Yeah, they just run subgen on our file. No, actually, we do that already. 00:51:38.258 --> 00:51:42.958 So you go check out the RSS feed with a podcasting 2.0 capable client, 00:51:43.118 --> 00:51:44.178 which is the easiest way to do it. 00:51:44.318 --> 00:51:49.058 And we got chapters baked right into the MP3, but also in a JSON file we keep 00:51:49.058 --> 00:51:51.858 in the cloud. So you get the latest and greatest chapters. 00:51:52.038 --> 00:51:57.658 But you can also get an SRT or VTT file of your very own and follow along with a transcript. 00:51:57.878 --> 00:52:02.298 And it's probably worth mentioning, guys. This is going to be our last few episodes of the year. 00:52:02.418 --> 00:52:05.058 We're coming in we have a few things planned still it's 00:52:05.058 --> 00:52:07.938 not like we're wrapping up yet but as far as it gets to like 00:52:07.938 --> 00:52:10.858 episode planning for us we are in we are now planning 00:52:10.858 --> 00:52:13.558 our last few episodes which means we only have a 00:52:13.558 --> 00:52:17.698 few more live streams of this year and as we get into mid-December some of them 00:52:17.698 --> 00:52:20.918 are going to be double live stream recording episodes we will have the holiday 00:52:20.918 --> 00:52:25.138 home labs coming up it'll happen faster than you think so if you get a little 00:52:25.138 --> 00:52:26.938 time when you're around on a 00:52:26.938 --> 00:52:31.758 Sunday join us over at jblive.tv we do the show at 10 a.m. Pacific 1 p.m. 00:52:31.938 --> 00:52:36.278 Eastern but you can have the robot convert it to your local time at jupiterbroadcasting.com. 00:52:36.998 --> 00:52:40.898 It is a special live vibe thing. It's unique in the world of podcasts. 00:52:41.678 --> 00:52:45.358 It's not something we brag about or talk about a lot, but do you know any other 00:52:45.358 --> 00:52:49.078 podcast in the world that has an open mumble room that anybody with a working 00:52:49.078 --> 00:52:51.358 mic and headphones can join and share their opinion? 00:52:51.778 --> 00:52:55.658 Now, people don't abuse it, obviously, but it's available. If they tag me in 00:52:55.658 --> 00:52:57.238 the chat room and they have something they want to say, they can talk. 00:52:57.867 --> 00:53:01.367 And that is open to all types of people. Now, of course, you abuse it. 00:53:01.447 --> 00:53:04.447 You probably get kicked out. But it's a really unique aspect to the show. 00:53:04.607 --> 00:53:08.487 And then you combine that with the live people that are watching and giving 00:53:08.487 --> 00:53:10.787 us feedback and helping title it in real time. 00:53:10.967 --> 00:53:16.287 And then the members that finance it and the boosters who give value to each individual episode. 00:53:16.867 --> 00:53:22.887 It is a very unique thing we are doing. And then to have been going for so many years. 00:53:24.397 --> 00:53:29.977 I mean, we're breathing down on 700 episodes of doing our absolute best every 00:53:29.977 --> 00:53:32.457 single Sunday to give you the best Linux coverage. 00:53:32.517 --> 00:53:37.877 And our only bias and motivation is to give the best coverage to our number one customer. 00:53:38.037 --> 00:53:41.477 And the number one customer is always and has been our audience. 00:53:41.877 --> 00:53:45.837 And I just think when you combine the mumble room, the way the show is supported, 00:53:46.097 --> 00:53:51.337 the ingredients, how long we've been going, our focus and our goals as presenters 00:53:51.337 --> 00:53:54.337 that we are all three aligned on. It's something very unique. 00:53:54.497 --> 00:53:57.377 And only a few more episodes of this year will be live. 00:53:57.557 --> 00:54:01.397 And it gets extra special and fun when you can participate live. 00:54:02.117 --> 00:54:05.317 JBLive.tv or if you just want to plug it in on a web browser, 00:54:05.457 --> 00:54:08.817 JBLive.fm. We're also on the commercial video platforms for the live stream. 00:54:08.977 --> 00:54:12.437 And, of course, members get the entire bootleg. They get a sense of it, 00:54:12.497 --> 00:54:13.677 but it's a whole other thing when you hear live. 00:54:14.177 --> 00:54:18.417 I wanted to make that plug just as we roll into the holiday season and as we 00:54:18.417 --> 00:54:21.737 bang out all these episodes and we have all this stuff. Like we're going to 00:54:21.737 --> 00:54:24.257 get moving quick and I might not get a chance to remind you again. 00:54:24.437 --> 00:54:27.637 And it is something very unique and it will not last forever. 00:54:27.897 --> 00:54:32.257 And it is here right now. And it's something very special in media, in my opinion. 00:54:32.517 --> 00:54:35.697 Of course, I'm a little biased on the topic. So go check out the show notes 00:54:35.697 --> 00:54:38.997 for more info for what we talked about today. A lot of good resources. 00:54:39.357 --> 00:54:43.597 Consider a membership. 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