Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box.
Seems this just released 10 hours. Was mentioned in this other thread, but figured it was worth granting it's own topic. Very Cool! I'm not the dev, but this is awesome. Was originally posted to Reddit here.
Oh wow, repo is https://github.com/LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
Working
- Unified Library Access – Browse media from multiple Jellyfin servers in one place.
- Direct Playback – Play content straight from the original server without extra overhead.
- User Mapping – Link accounts across servers for a consistent user experience.
- API Compatibility – Appears as a normal Jellyfin server, so existing apps and tools still work.
⚠️ In Progress
- Websocket Support – Needed for real-time features like SyncPlay (not fully reliable yet).
- Audio Streaming – May not function correctly (still untested in many cases).
- Automatic Bitrate Adjustment – Stream quality based on network conditions isn’t supported yet.
🚫 Not Planned
- Admin Functions – Server administration (user management, settings, etc.) won’t be supported through Jellyswarrm.----
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Holy shit, sounds like this would enable people to have a community in which m every person has a Jellyfin and they each use all of them.
One person could specialize in documentaries and another in shows.
Combined, it would mean a huuuge library.
I wonder how high demand content would work. As in, if a TV show is watched a lot, could it be saved in multiple servers and the swarrm figure out who streams from what to balance demand?
Keep in mind this isn't federation. It is a way to access multiple independent servers via reverse proxy.
Yes, but a group of friends could use it to set up a group Jellyfin, sharing their libraries
How would each person contribute to it?
By ripping their legally bought DVDs, surely :P
I mean how would they upload their files to the server
It’s their own server, so they’d just… upload it.
um, they don't
Each run their own jellyfin server and I guess their own jellyswarrm to access al of their friend's servers? - Not read the docs though
Jellyfin plays the media. It doesn't make/produce/edit or upload the media. Think of it as DIY Netflix service
It seems like the libraries are server specific. So it'll probably just be saved to whichever server owns the library you're using.
Dude I just saw a post where someone was asking if something like this existed
Yep, this was mentioned in that thread and it is so impressive it deserves a dedicated topic to promote itself. Seems it has only existed for a few hours!
Really should audit the implementation of that feature. So when you first log in it automatically sends you're credentials to every connected server?
I would assume it's a hash but yes, it needs an audit.
to send a hash only, you’d need a modified jellyfin server that can accept a given hash for auth in place of the password. since this project doesn’t require a modified jellyfin server, it does in fact send the password directly, as seen here https://github.com/LLukas22/Jellyswarrm/blob/9c5f4f57af485e305174e9435d76fb226105d946/crates/jellyswarrm-proxy/src/handlers/users.rs#L204
I'd assume you need an admin account for every server and it uses that to create the users.
Jellyswarm doesn’t create users or accounts. You give your existing Jellyfin credentials for the servers where you already have an account.
Nice, this might finally allow me to have an English, German and French Library without having conflicts all the time.
You can already do that (somehow) with tags and libraries. There's a plugin for that.
But yeah this looks less complicated to setup and maintain !
What sort of conflicts?
I constantly have issues with Sonarr or Radarr overwriting French originals with horribly dubbed versions because I have English as the default language, same for German originals.
I would just love a way that would always prefer the original language if it’s one of the languages I speak - but that’s currently not possible.
I set Radarr/Sonarr to download original language and just bite the bullet with subtitles as I've found very few dubs that aren't completely atrocious.
I bet this could be used to load balance regional servers with a bit of tweaking. (I made Plex-sync a long time ago for a similar purpose)
Thats wildly cool... I'm checking it out tomorrow!
I feel like this problem should be solved via some form of federation within Jellyfin, but if Jellyswarm works well enough.. I'm not gonna make a fuss.
Apparently someone else released a Federation plugin 11 months ago. And looking at the feature request on Jellyfin end
Has this been tested?
Good question. Asked the developer, so feel free to chime in: https://github.com/Angablade/JellyfinFederationPlugin/issues/1#issuecomment-3217864250
I always thought this would make more sense to implement client side in the media player. But its probably easier to implement this way.
How does it handle duplicate entries? How does it define duplicates?
Maybe each server shows up as a library. Like “Server 1 - Movies”
Kind of annoying but less so than swapping servers and search should work
You're right! You can see that in the screenshots. Thx!
I was just guessing (it’s how I’d do it) 🥳
/me needs friends 😪
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Thanks! Giving this a go tonight
I don't use jellyfin but these seems cool as fuck...
Here are some thoughts from Jellyfin-offtopic:
Well that sounds like a security nightmare
Haha, you certainly don't have to host it at a public url over http.
Wait till you learn how many security vulns jellyfin has, and that you can't put it behind basic auth due to further outstanding bugs
Presuming jellyfin would actually be on the public internet?
Which bugs?
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