Are they trying to force DNS resolvers to become authoritative entities…? Like bro they’re just supposed to route me to an IP. It’s not on them to block content based on what others want.

Well that’s some good info to have in general. Think I’m okay with using DDNS but this is good to know.

Ok great, this sounds exactly like what I’m looking for. Have seen the term DDNS used before but didn’t know it was for this. Thanks!

This must be what I missed too, will give it a try

Is anyone else experiencing slowness and sometimes freezing after updating? This is mostly happening when I go to my home screen, and the server CPU load spikes.

Since the powers that be are making no steps to slow this down… we need somebody to invent a Mega Space Air Conditioner that blow exhausts hot air directly into space.

There is no way open source software could possibly keep up with Google Maps unless it’s community-backed by a lot of people. Sure, in a 1 on 1 competition, the one with a billion dollars has an advantage, but in a 10,000 to 1 competition, things start looking a little more even.

That being said, it would be a better use of your energy to take the 5 minutes to add the facility in Open Street Maps rather than complain online about it. Maybe it would help 5 or 10 others with similar issues, and you can feel good about making a community contribution.

Thanks! I used LibreOffice Draw so it was pretty easy to make.

To be honest, it probably would be best to use a VPN to get into your home network to watch the content if you wanna be extra-safe. I kind of just run under the assumption that I can always claim it’s my media since it’s all downloaded on a separate connection. I suppose if I ever get a notice of some sort, I’ll switch over to a VPN, but currently it’s working fine for me to have it ran through a domain and makes it a lot easier for family members to use.

I actually just made a little diagram for myself to help with troubleshooting. Hopefully it’s helpful for others wanting to automate their movie/show accumulation. I made it a little simpler than the original by taking out the music part of it (lmk if I should share the full thing).

For context, the green boxes are the main server, the grey boxes are running on a Raspberry Pi that’s behind an always-on VPN (Mullvad). You search for movies/shows with Sonarr/Radarr, which browses torrent trackers with Prowlarr, and sends the torrent to QBittorrent. QBT then moves downloaded files to the Seeding directory, where they’re automatically copied into the media directory. Jellyfin then automatically scans for new content and fetches Metadata to make it look pretty.

Your family wouldn’t need to do any fancy port stuff, you’d just need to create accounts on your Jellyfin server and have them log in. All you’d need to port forward is a port for Jellyfin.

edit: I read over the post again and you could definitely take out the whole automated part with Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr and just manually search for torrents and the end experience would be the same for your family, just a little more tedious if you get a lot of requests

I just looked at my Pihole and I don’t see any requests for this domain in the last 24 hrs. 4 people with android phones on my network. Maybe best to block it for now? Could be from an app you have running in the background too, if you transfered data to the new phone.