What’s your low-maintenance Jellyfin setup?
Night shifts do something to your brain where you genuinely cannot troubleshoot anything at 4am. You get home, you want something familiar on in the background while you decompress, and if the server throws an error or the client buffers you are simply not dealing with it.
Been running Jellyfin for about eight months now after getting off the streaming merrygoround, and most of the time it is fine. More than fine, actually. But I notice my setup choices are heavily shaped by the fact that I need it to be nearly brainless to use when I am exhausted.
So I am curious what decisions other people have made with that kind of use case in mind. Which clients have given you the least grief, whether you keep hardware transcoding enabled or just store everything in a format that plays direct, how you handle remote access without it becoming a whole project.
Tailscale is sorted on my end and that part has been solid. The client situation is where I feel like I am still making it up as I go. There are so many options and the quality gap between them is real but not always obvious from the outside.
What does your actual daytoday setup look like when you are not in the mood to fix anything?