642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
23 November 2025
Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.
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Episode Links
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- LUP’s Great Holiday Homelab Form
- Old Fart Form (markdown)
- ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
- Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
- Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
- declarative-jellyfin full example
- Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
- Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
- LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
- kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
- Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.
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Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
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