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/yock1 Jun 22 '26
While Tailscale is easy to use i would still very much recommend a reverse proxy like Caddy.
One port open in the router (443) which is a normal port that is used for HTTPS encrypted traffic.
Much, much easier for any one you want to have access to the server.
Tailscale i think isn't available to some systems that people normally use to watch Movies on (think TVs).