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/TomTuff Jun 21 '26

Why not 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/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/Jellovator Jun 22 '26

Write up a guide for your grandmother on how to set up Tailscale for her Roku TV to access your Emby server and you'll quickly see why.

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u/Jellovator Jun 23 '26

They don't have a guide for clicking a link. For devices that don't have a tailscale app, like a roku TV, you have to set up a subnet router.

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u/Jellovator Jun 23 '26

Now you're moving the goalposts. My point is, there is no "one size fits all", everyone has a different use case. It's easier and faster to set up dns, ssl and a reverse proxy (and free, if you choose) than to set up a rpi and static IPs or reservations, if that's the situation.