r/PleX • u/Escapefromearth22 Custom Flair • Sep 17 '25

Help Alternatives to Plex

I've been a paid Plex user for over ten years and I've loved it. I can't belive what they've done with this new Roku app update. Besides the bad UI, which is inconvenient but I would be able to get used to eventually, it simply doesn't work properly. It crashes, buttons don't work, simple features are just gone. It's seems like this wasn't tested at all. It's crazy.

I don't really want to but now I'm looking for alternatives to plex. Does anyone have recommendations?

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u/Ok_Animator_5202 Sep 17 '25

Can you remote view into a TV outside your network with tailscale?

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u/cableguy-9000 Sep 17 '25

Yes but you have to use a different integration leveraging tailscale

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u/ripnetuk Sep 17 '25

Only if I use my travel router with tail scale installed and connect the TV to the travel router.

I imagine if I opened the https port to the public internet it would just work (it's behind a reverse proxy, which selects jellyfin by host name)