I could barely get my 78 year old mother in law to use Linux for web email after theming it like Windows.
How the heck am I going to get her to understand getting her roku to be VPN into my house for jellyfin when we’re 1000+ miles away and trying to troubleshoot over her home phone?
(She doesn’t even have a cell phone - for pictures she digs out her 20 year old digital camera, snaps a few pics, uploads them to her laptop, attaches them to an email, and only then do I get to see what she’s seeing.)
Assuming you can remote into her laptop. Setup the vpn on it, set up a portforward rule to point back to your jellyfin over the vpn, set the roku to connect to the laptop.
Although technically possible - I can’t imagine trying to troubleshoot that remotely. Or explaining that she can’t watch Escape to the Country because her laptop battery died.
I could barely get my 78 year old mother in law to use Linux for web email after theming it like Windows.
How the heck am I going to get her to understand getting her roku to be VPN into my house for jellyfin when we’re 1000+ miles away and trying to troubleshoot over her home phone?
(She doesn’t even have a cell phone - for pictures she digs out her 20 year old digital camera, snaps a few pics, uploads them to her laptop, attaches them to an email, and only then do I get to see what she’s seeing.)
Cloudflare zero trust tunnel to your Plex server pointed at some domain.
Assuming you can remote into her laptop. Setup the vpn on it, set up a portforward rule to point back to your jellyfin over the vpn, set the roku to connect to the laptop.
Although technically possible - I can’t imagine trying to troubleshoot that remotely. Or explaining that she can’t watch Escape to the Country because her laptop battery died.
The alternative is to preconfig a mini pc and ship it to her have her plug it in and forget about it.
Or you could setup a proxy service and allow list her ip address block. Many ways to acheive remote access without much fuss from non techinals.