Hi, just recently it’s foss had an article about homelabs. Of course I digged in, since there is a small nuc working tirelessly in the corner of my routers closet. So far it just crawls some web pages for me and sends emails accordingly to my filters. So I hoped to find new exciting stuff to let it crunch through. The articles content did not spark my interest though.
Well, I’d like to know what you are using on your homelab. In hope you’ll do something I’d like to follow. Cheers
Why do you have Jellyfin and plex?
Not OP, but I run both because Plex was/is easier to setup non-techy family members and easier to get on their TVs/devices.
Plex has been pissing me off though and I’d like to move to Jellyfin, but sounds like a PITA to transfer everything over. Gonna have to get clever with that probably
It is much less of a PITA than it is often made out to be. I made the transition just recently and had both Plex and Jellyfin running simultaneously for about a month. I used that time to just go through and adjust my progress through my home videos on Jellyfin so I remembered where I left off before shutting down Plex entirely. As long as your directory structure is well organized, it shouldn’t be hard to switch to Jellyfin at all, and if your directories aren’t organized… well it’s a good opportunity to organize them. For large libraries, the *arr stack is great for that.
I’ve paid for Lifetime Plex when it was still cheap. And have Jellyfin running on the side to see what it has more to offer. (Also to test Swiftfin.) But as long as Plex “just works” for me, I will probably keep both. On Plex, I have shared libraries from a few friends.
And there’s also Stash, but this has a completely different kind of library management. It allows for bookmarking specific timestamps, has video previews and other things.