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jellyfin-accounts

jellyfin-accounts (JFA) is a better way to manage your Jellyfin users.

sElfHost jellyfin-accounts from $0.05/day 🪄

Screenshot of jellyfin-accounts

Features include:

  • Send invite links to your users, let them sign up themselves
  • Create setting profiles to restrict permissions of new users
  • Handles password resets without your intervention
  • Enforce sign-up requirements:
    • Password strength
    • Contact method verification
    • CAPTCHA
  • Send messages & notifications to your users (email, discord, telegram, matrix available)
  • Set accounts to expire after a specified time
  • Manage your users in bulk
  • More

How do I access jellyfin-accounts?

jellyfin-accounts will be available from your dashboard (https://<username>.elfhosted.com>), or directly, at https://<username>-jellyfin-accounts.elfhosted.com

How do I set it up?

Here's a series of screenshots to illustrate, but TL;DR, use the following settings:

TL;DR

  • Disable updates (we roll these out for you anyway)
  • When setting up connection to Jellyfin, use these settings:
    • Server Address (Internal): http://jellyfin:8096
    • Server Address (External): https://<your username>.jfa.elfhosted.com
  • If connecting to Ombi, use http://ombi:5000 for connection

Step-by-step

Initial setup:

Jellyfin Accounts - Starting Setup

Pick language:

Jellyfin Accounts - Starting Setup

General setup:

Jellyfin Accounts - General Setup

Configure login:

Jellyfin Accounts - Starting Setup

Configure Jellyfin Integration.

  • When setting up connection to Jellyfin, use these settings:
    • Server Address (Internal): http://jellyfin:8096
    • Server Address (External): https://<your username>.jfa.elfhosted.com

It's recommended to create a dedicated Jellyfin user for JFA to use:

Jellyfin Accounts - Jellyfin Setup

Here's what the Jellyfin user setup looks like:

Jellyfin - setup jfa-admin user

If using Ombi integration, set Ombi to ombi:5000:

Jellyfin Accounts - Ombi Setup

Setup (optional) messaging support

Jellyfin Accounts - Messaging Setup

Setup password validation requirements:

Jellyfin Accounts - Password Validation Setup

Setup contact info

Jellyfin Accounts - Contact Setup

Done! 👍

Jellyfin Accounts - Done!

How do I get support for jellyfin-accounts?

  1. For general use of jellyfin-accounts, refer to the official site or to one of the links below.
  2. For specific support re your ElfHosted configuration / account, either post a topic in the #elf-forum channel, or call for 1:1 #elf-help.

jellyfin-accounts resources