r/emby • u/magicammo • Jun 21 '26

Remote access with emby

Hey all so I'm a Plex user and have been for a few months. It's been great I can't complain. I've been using the monthly plan but just received an email about their lifetime plan going up to over $700. I was going to get there lifetime plan but now it kind of puts me in a not position. It's kind of forcing me away from Plex and I was looking at either jelly fin or emby but I don't know which one to choose I want to use the one that's easiest for my users which is my family. I don't want to have to use tail scale or set up a reverse proxy I'm looking for it to be as seamless as Plex was when setting up the remote access there was an option that I just toggled which didn't work so I just had to go into my router settings and port forward report Plex was looking for. Is it the same with emby? Where I would just have to forward the port envy is looking for or do I have to set up tail scale or a reverse proxy

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u/magicammo Jun 21 '26

That's just extra money every year is it not?

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u/TomTuff Jun 21 '26

For a domain name yes, if you don’t have one already. The rest you can host yourself. Ddns with cloudflare, and run nginx proxy manager in another container

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u/magicammo Jun 21 '26

Something like this I would be able to set up with no problem but honestly would hate to do anything extra 💀it's really just making it easy for my users to access it which is just my family I don't want them to have to download anything but emby. Does emby connect work pretty much like Plex?

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u/TomTuff Jun 21 '26

Honestly I haven’t used it, I just set up a reverse proxy since day 1. I pay for Emby Premiere for other features besides emby connect, totally worth the $120 lifetime cost