The score was zero when I asked. I thought maybe there was something problematic with it…

…ok - what’s wrong with MeTube?

MeTube

I’ve got ollama setup with whisper and piper and a HA voice PE, but I honestly haven’t gotten around to configuring much yet. Most notable thing was being able to use the wake word to start a timer, but it was pickier than old Siri about the precise wording.

The only thing Plex has that Emby & Jellyfin don’t, that I think is pretty neat, is the combining of multiple servers in one library UI. That’s it.

For myself I can access jellyfin from my tailnet, but Plex also makes secure sharing with friends and family over the internet simple.

You also get their OTA broadcast guide for free with plex pass. I doubt anyone else will ever offer that. The cheapest option I know of is HDHomerun’s for $35/year.

With those two things I suspect I’ll be sticking with Plex (if not exclusively) until they go out of business.

Plex Pass certainly has functionality and features that jellyfin doesn’t; just not $750 worth…

It’s been a year or two since I was looking into it and I didn’t have a NAS at the time, but another one of the issues I had was the tiny selection of cameras available. I tested some Aqara G2H Pros and the Logitech Circle View. The Aqaras I added local storage to and at least could get continuous recording, but event seeking is pretty terrible. The circle view was, despite very well built hardware, essentially useless. Keeping it connected to the network was basically impossible

I’m curious how writing to the NAS works. Is it just a bunch of files dumped to a network share or is there some sort of timeline viewing software available? Are they giant continuous files? Individual files for events? Without knowing the details it seems like it would be a nightmare to navigate and actually find useful information.

How was support experience wrt replacing the bad cloudkeys?

I will admit I gave Protect an unfair advantage as it’s the only fully first party solution I tried (unless you count Apple HomeKit Secure Video?)

Protect with 3rd party cameras is indeed lacking. But it works like magic with first party cameras.

The only other solution I’ve tried was QNAP QVR Pro with third party cameras and it was awful

Sounds like you’re having better luck with HKSV than I did. For me that is where I started and quickly bailed on it despite the unlimited cloud storage. It just did a terrible job at recording video. It would always end the recording with the detected subject still in the frame. It was incredibly frustrating.

Is this a common issue folks have with Protect? I haven’t seen it talked about so far.

TBH, for me, Protect has been so much better than the other NVR solutions I’ve tried it has been a big driving force behind the appeal for me.

If it’s just for you, checkout Tailscale.

I remember especially hating all the extra categories and freemium content plex added that I wasn’t interested in viewing but couldn’t remove (or at least did not find a way to remove).

Not doubting your experience at all. For all I know it’s a new option; I just discovered it, but for the other folks like me still stuck with Plex, most (all?) of this can be disabled in the Online Media Sources setting on the server (yeah - I know 🙄)…

I think the situation under discussion is converting plex users to jellyfin though. Most plex users won’t have a reverse proxy setup because it’s not needed.

I’m ready to replace plex but unless something major has changed in the last several months I simply can’t understand how people feel jellyfin is a comparable solution to plex. I couldn’t even get past the user interface and it falling flat on its face with media recognition.

If I remember right I tried to do the Infuse free trial but either Apple or Infuse was choking on processing the trial request and I could never use it.

Emby is a paid service right?

Am I correct that there is no first party Jellyfin app for AppleTV?

Then there is QNAP. Apparently their system QTS is not as polished as DSM, but everything needed should still be there. There’s similarly priced, similarly equipped TS-462. It’s just dual-core CPU, but has more RAM (not upgradeable though) and it seems it can accept M.2 as storage at least. As per internet research, the build quality is just as good as Synology.

I have the QNAP TS-462. It’s my first and only NAS so I don’t have any points of comparison for you. Feel free to ask any questions you have and I can try and answer for you.

I do want to point out that the RAM is upgradable, but, unintuitively, only on the smaller 4GB RAM SKU; the 8GB RAM SKU has the memory soldered on.

I learned this the hard way and had to return the first one that arrived, but I currently have the memory maxed out at 16GB.

I’d start with Backblaze’s 2023 drive report