I said easier, setting up a vpn for my family to be able to remotely access my media on their TV is no where near as easy as setting up a Plex server and sharing it that way
Likely upnp or nat-pnp. Enabling "Enable automatic port mapping"within Jellyfin will accomplish the same thing without needing a paid Plex subscription.
But I was mistaken on which features were locked behind the paywall. They charge for hardware transcoding but it sounds like sharing doesn’t require the subscription.
How so? You can use tailscale/wireguard or just port forward to remotely access.
I said easier, setting up a vpn for my family to be able to remotely access my media on their TV is no where near as easy as setting up a Plex server and sharing it that way
Port forwarding doesn’t require VPN.
Does Plex Sharing not open up ports either manually or via UPnpP?
I am in a situation where I can’t open up ports manually (or access my router at all) so it’s definitely not manual
Likely upnp or nat-pnp. Enabling "Enable automatic port mapping"within Jellyfin will accomplish the same thing without needing a paid Plex subscription.
What paid plex subscription? For the record I’ll probably look into that later but I have never once given plex money
Plex Pass https://www.plex.tv/plex-pass/
But I was mistaken on which features were locked behind the paywall. They charge for hardware transcoding but it sounds like sharing doesn’t require the subscription.