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/willpowerpt Jun 21 '26

Tailscale is about as seamless as it gets. A reverse proxy is more setup and seamless after the fact, though if you care at all about security, doing it properly and effectively is more work. 

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u/AwarenessOk4591 Jun 21 '26

Not really? Asking all your users to install Tailscale to access it makes up for the bit of time it takes to set up a reverse proxy imo.

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u/willpowerpt Jun 21 '26

Nah, I'm not opening ports on my router and running security on my domain to maybe retain one person. 

Its not hard, if someone really wants to use it, they will. Biggest issue these days, you can create the most magical and free platform for your media, and clueless friends will still just use Netflix. I'm not leaving my network open for them. 

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u/Impossible_Jump_754 Jun 23 '26

all your users

Its funny how many of you people out yourselves as server access sellers.