while I agree you have to remember everyone one here is likely way more techie than the average person

the ONLY issue I think non-tech people have with JellyFin is that you have to enter a specific domain/ip address to connect to a server - like I know to us that’s simple but it’s also very unlike how most paid-for streamers operate

stopppp

it’s already dead

So i’ve been trying to set this up this exact thing for the past few weeks - tried all manner of different Nginx/Tailscale/VPS/Traefik/Wireguard/Authelia combos, but to no avail

I was lost in the maze

However, I realised that it was literally as simple as setting up a CloudFlare Tunnel on my particular local network I wanted exposed (in my case, the Docker network that runs the JellyFin container) and then linking that domain/ip:port within CloudFlare’s Zero Trust dashboard

Cloudflare then proxies all requests to your public domain/route to your locally hosted service, all without exposing your private IP, all without exposing any ports on your router, and everything is encrypted with HTTPS by default

And you can even set up what looks like pretty robust authentication (2FA, limited to only certain emails, etc) for your tunnel

Not sure what your use case is, but as mine is shared with only me and my partner, this worked like a charm

Have you ever tried Cloudflare Tunnels? I think this would solve most of those issues

just cloudflare tunnel it - i set one up the other day and it works super well, proving external access to a locally hosted service all without having to set up your own SsL certs and worrying about exposing private ips or ports

literally was going through the exact same thoughts as you a couple a weeks ago, tried so many different configurations but the one i found that worked was actually kinda simple

basically they way i did was to run a gluetun docker container, and then in the environment variables pass in the the fact i wanted this to use the WireGuard VPN manager, and then i passed in my Proton VPN wireguard api key (you’ll need a subscription for this)

then once that gluetun container is up and running, you literally just add “network_mode: service:gluetun” to any other containers that you want to use this VPN

can you can even test its working by sending a curl command to an ip checking site from within those containers connected to gluetun

and then also try shutting down that gluetun vpn, and see if you other services (e.g. qbitorrent, still work)

I’ve literally just set this all up and it’s working now after some tinkering, so here’s what I found out. Assuming you have correctly configured the sonarr/qbitorrent api keys and credentials:

When you make a TV show request in Sonarr, it will automatically add the torrent to your download client (e.g qbitorrent)

qbitorrent will then download the file to wherever you specify (e.g. /torrents/completed)

periodically, Sonarr will scan that /torrents/completed folder, and if it finds the tagged TV show, it will either copy or hard link that video file to your specified media folder (e.g. /media/tv-shows)

JellyFin will do the same, periodically scanning your media folders to see if there are any updates

EDIT: also if you are using docker containers, make sure that Sonars native /downloads folder is pointed at the same external folder your qBitTorrent is downloading files in