I hope this doesn't mean they are on the slippery slope of selling user data, thoughts?

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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think a lot of people use Tailscale and add their external clients to a dedicated tailnet. How are you hosting Plex without opening any ports though?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think they use Plex Relay which is also limited bandwidth since it uses Plex's servers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I actually do both. Friends and family who are on the plex aren't on the tailscale network. But my personal clients are. I mean, not all of them. You obviously can't add a Roku stick or a smart TV to a tailscale network. Not trivially, of course. Maybe you could custom engineer a solution, but it might not be worth the effort. As I said in a previous comment, though, the best solution might be a dedicated cloud VM that serves as a reverse proxy into your network and which forwards traffic - either by having them both on the same tailnet and one just forwards traffic on specific ports, specifically plex's - or a reverse SSH tunnel. If I had to do it, I'd probably go the first route. Still, the network traffic costs might make doing that prohibitive. But it also might not. I haven't looked into it.

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