Has Anyone Got the Jellyfin App Working on LAN with YunoHost?

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Hi all,

Has anyone successfully managed to get the official Jellyfin Android app (or LG smart TV app) to connect to a Jellyfin server running locally on a YunoHost install, using just HTTP LAN (e.g. http://192.168.x.x:8096 or a .lan domain)?

If you have:

  • What settings, firewall rules, or nginx/YunoHost tweaks did you need?
  • Did you run into any issues with redirects, SSL, or app connection errors?
  • Are you using direct access on port 8096, or going through the YunoHost nginx reverse proxy?

Background:
I can access Jellyfin fine in a browser on the LAN, but the app always fails to connect, and I see 301 redirects in the nginx logs when the app tries to connect.

Would love to hear from anyone who has it working—or any pointers!

Thanks!

U

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I have no Jellyfin running, but as a pointer:

  • I expect your clients not to find Jellyfin by IP; either because there is no matching TLS certificate (when using HTTPS) or because the client does not want to connect (when using HTTP)
  • workarounds:
    • create an A (and perhaps AAAA) record for your local IP at your DNS registrar (ie, jelly.mydomain.tld = 192.168.x.y)
    • get a Letsencrypt certificate (using the DNS-01 challenge, the HTTP-01 challenge would not work for local addresses)
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Thanks for the answer. I have the same problem. I want to run Jellyfin entirely on localhost, i.e. I don’t have a DNS registrar (or don’t know how to add a AAA record on YNH directly).

A similar post mentions a “hairpin” issue, that it by-passes the public domain to connect directly to the local server. I don’t know if that would help.

For reference, this question is also on github, with an answer suggesting deactivating SSO :grimacing:: Unable to connect to jellyfin from Android - port closed · Issue #183 · YunoHost-Apps/jellyfin_ynh · GitHub

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thank you all for your thoughts

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Bonsoir,

Vous pouvez essayer de modifier /etc/jellyfin/network.xml ainsi (après avoir sauvegardé l’original, cela va sans dire) :

<NetworkConfiguration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org>
  <RequireHttps>false</RequireHttps>
  <BaseUrl>/</BaseUrl>
  <PublicPort>8097</PublicPort>
  <InternalHttpPort>8097</InternalHttpPort>
  <EnableHttps>false</EnableHttps>
  <EnableIPV6>true</EnableIPV6>
  <EnableIPV4>true</EnableIPV4>
  <AutoDiscovery>true</AutoDiscovery>
  <EnableUPnP>true</EnableUPnP>
  <EnableRemoteAccess>true</EnableRemoteAccess>
  <PublishedServerUrl>Votre-IP-locale</PublishedServerUrl>
</NetworkConfiguration>

puis

sudo systemctl restart jellyfin

L’application fonctionne avec l’IP locale (yunohost est bypassé). C’est à tester : cela fonctionne, disons, jusqu’à la connexion (je ne suis pas allé plus loin). Je ne sais pas quels problèmes cela peut causer par la suite et toute mise à jour de l’app cassera certainement cette config.
Avec YNH, l’app est faite pour fonctionner avec un nom de domaine public.

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J’oubliais le plus important: ouvrir le port de jellyfin dans le pare-feu.

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Thank you for your reply! I’ll give it a try.

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Ciao

Some updates? I just Installed Jellyfin and I tried everything. My android app, for example, is able to find the local jellyfin server, but if I try to access it does not succeed.

To make it visible on the network I had to allow the UDP ports that are described after the installation.

I am only able to access jellyfin directly by using the link to the application on the server, but not via other clients.