Putting yourself into the position of trying to solve a practical problem is the best way to learn.

If you fail completely, you can always restore your system and try again (you have a backup, right?)

Yeah, this project is built as a docker container. The repo has instructions on starting the container. You should watch a few introductory videos on Docker so you understand the concepts and basic usage.

Once it’s started, the machine that docker is running on will be serving a website that acts as the application. If you’re running docker on your desktop you can then open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/ and you will see something that looks like the demo link above.

This doesn’t expose it to the Internet. If you’re running this on a home LAN with a router between you and the ISP’s modem (or the ISP’s modem is a router/AP) then only computers connected to your network will be able to access it. You would have to go to your router’s administration console and specifically forward a port for that service so that people on the Internet could get past your modem.

Yeah, maybe tell the guy who suggested plugging the laptop into the TV INSTEAD OF USING A MEDIA PLAYER.

Oh goodness, you’re right.

Thank you for your valuable contribution to the Selfhosted community. We in the Selfhosted community always looking for like minded people who absolutely abhor technology, that’s why we’re here in the Selfhosted community. We here at the Selfhosted community are just aghast at all of the newcomers who are constantly trying to make use use “electronics” like some NERD who lives in their parents basement.

Thank you for sticking up for home decour, it is an important part of our lives which simply cannot simply be brushed aside because someone (probably a NERD) wants to use “technology”. Like I always say, this computer thing is just a passing fad which will never catch on while a stylish living room is forever.

This site is populated by the illiterate.

Yes, there certainly are a lot of clueless people who are unable to comprehend a statement.

Unless you’re watching your shows on Netflix, or other commercial streaming services, then you’re committing piracy too. ‘Streaming’ a show is just downloading it and them immediately deleting it.

Piracy is downloading/making a copy of a piece of media that you’re not licensed to copy. It doesn’t become less illegal because you delete it.

If you’re against piracy then you should not be streaming content that you haven’t paid for.

Well, make sure your interiour decoratour knows about media players which are about the size of a Visa Black card.

testing in production builds character

The short answer is because it is open source.

I’m using some non-standard transcoding profiles, for example RIFE motion interpolation. I have some other server customizations so that it integrates with my home automation system a bit better.

I can’t customize Plex.

I understood the misunderstanding from reading the previous comments.

I was clear in other comments that I was speaking of what I knew to be true at the time, therefore the tense was correct from my perspective.

I didn’t say you were intentionally lying, only that you were mistaken. I wasn’t making a personal attack.

I acknowledge that based on your experience that is how Plex worked 10 years ago, but it is not how it currently works. So, when you say that ‘this is how Plex works’ instead of ‘this is how Plex worked 10 years ago’ it’s implying that it still works like that when it does not. That could confuse people who are here and trying to learn.

This place takes itself way, way too seriously, in my opinion. I’m sorry for any toes I stepped on without even meaning to, and I won’t comment on the matter further.

The community exists to talk about, and help people with, self hosting. Providing incorrect information runs counter to that purpose and so community members should point out when information isn’t correct.

Misinformation just means that the information that you’re providing is not correct, it’s not a personal attack on you to be corrected about a factual issue. It doesn’t mean that you’re a bad person or suggest that you’re trying to be intentionally misleading, it just means that your statements do not match the current factual reality.

Well, grammatical quibble then.

Your verbs are present tense and not past tense:

Plex requires a Plex Pass subscription

Plex doesn’t allow you to watch media on your local network

This gives the impression that you’re talking about the current state of things. Which seems to be the above commenter’s issue.

Where as:

Plex required a Plex Pass subscription

or

Plex didn’t allow you to watch media on your local network

Would imply a past experience.

Misinformation doesn’t mean that you’re intentionally lying (that is disinformation), it just means that you’re stating facts that are not true.

(I’m not being negative, just pedantic lol)

To actually contribute to the conversation:

Plex now allows local network streaming without their servers being offline as long as your client is already authenticated (cached tokens have a short expiration date however)

Alternatively, you can add your LAN’s subnet in Settings > Server > Network > ‘List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth’

Here’s a full written guide: https://forums.plex.tv/t/howto-use-plex-with-no-internet/383325

(I know you’re just joking)

☝️🤓, We typically don’t consider local-only applications as being hosted.

Hosted implies a server and the ability to operate remotely and to service multiple users.

I have both specifically for this reason.

Plex is for my family who only need to know ‘login to your Plex account’, but I personally use Jellyfin because I’m on my VPN. I got the lifetime pass for under $100 ($80?) and it has saved me a lot of time by preventing technical issues that would need my personal attention.

It’s only because it is a large mp3 okay?

Yeah, I have had a similar experience.

Some are excited about it when I give them the tour but never use their login.

Luckily my nieces and nephews love the fact that they can watch all of the Mouse House movies without the Mouse House+ subscription

I just got a refund, I’m moving to Real Player

“Just one more thing” we all say until we’re hosting a bespoke cloud service for everyone we know.

Next do pihole, put everything on a mesh VPN, home assistant all of your lights/locks/coffee machines, jellyfin, then you may as well get a seedbox in Singapore and automate your media consumption, while you’re there you may as well run subsonic and lidarr and if you’re going to host media audiobookshelf for your reading/audiobook needs.

Or, branch out to other nerd hobbies and buy a 3D printer (why not) and cover your walls and flat surfaces with modular organization systems

I run both, I got the lifetime license for under $100 and it is much easier to have my various family members install the Plex app and then login than to get them on my VPN to access Jellyfin.

Grandma ain’t installing Tailscale

Audiobookshelf is probably what you’re after.

It supports both e-books and audiobooks. It has a web interface and a native Android app. It saves your reading/audiobook progress in your account so you will always be in the same spot no matter which way you access it. It also allows you to make multiple accounts if you have multiple users.

Docker/Podman containers available and it’s possible to run the server on Windows, if you’re into that kind of thing.

Here’s the docs: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/docs

Web UI:

Browsing a Library:

Browsing e-book info:

Reader and chapter selection:

And, I’m going to guess that you like statistics:

e: Put the images in spoilers to save the reader’s scrolling strength e2: oops header tag is double #, not single x.x