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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

So use a reverse proxy with authentiacation before access to Jellyfin is allowed. I use Caddy forward_auth with Authelia for this. Unless you also want to use the apps without VPN, this works great.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Does that work for the Android and Android TV apps?

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

No. As I said, apps don't work. I cobbled together an API key service that let's you have an API key (password) in the server URL in Rust for myself. This works with Apps, but it is a bit too messy and single purpose for me to open source it right now. Maybe one day.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Got instructions or a site to point to on setting something like that up?

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Honestly, I may have to write one at some point. I just used the documentation of those two tools to set it up.