How do you play/stream media from your server during offline hours?

submitted a month ago by Sunny' 🌻

Hi there!

Wondering what types of setup people have that allow them to, while the internet is down, still watch/stream media from their servers. I have a stacked Jellyfin library that, and would like to see this feature/setup in my own house. My Unraid server is on the other side of the house from where the living room is. Is there actually a sane way to achieve this?

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hendrik a month ago

I have a NFS and Samba share to my NAS. And Jellyfin exports things via DLNA / UPnP so there is always a local route to the storage. Also I've set the IP address of the server in the /etc/hosts file of my router. So even when internet is down, the DNS can resolve it.

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