Hi, I think OP wants their sibilings to directly connect to their PC, skipping any relays, even if it’s their VPS.

But if you are comparing setting up your own VPS instead of relaying through Tailscale’s DERP, then the answer is… it depends on the distance and whether you can establish VPS->Local VM direct connections.

I found opening a specified port for Tailscale on the VPS to help with direct connections with CGNAT’d peers. I’m not familiar with Pangolin, but I think the same principle applies as long as at least one address:port combination is agreed between Wireguard peers.

If I’m being honest though, before doing all this, try asking your ISPs for IPv6 to avoid these cumbersome things together.

If both your Jellyfin server and your siblings are behind residential CGNAT, then high chance your connections are relayed through Tailscale’s DERP servers. You can check with tailscale ping-ing your sibilings’ nodes.

If this is the case, you may consider selfhosting your own DERP somewhere close to you, but I’d argue the performance gains are minimal compared to the extra costs. Another solution would be to enable IPv6 for both you and your siblings, skipping NAT traversal. I just hope both ISPs support it and support it properly in $CURRENT_YEAR.

This is all assuming you can direct play (i.e. not transcoding) your media. If you’re transcoding, then it’s good to look into hardware acceleration like the other comment mentioned, too

try adding the sysctls parameters to your docker container too

Is there a way for a Wireguard peer to advertise AllowedIPs similar to Tailscale’s subnet routings? If that’s right, perhaps you can configure your host’s address as one of the AllowedIPs on the OpenWRT peer, and skip port forwarding too

Two separate functions should go into two separate nodes

1. Run Tailscale binary on host. Connect to Jellyfin server using that node’s IP address.

and

2. Run Gluetun + another Tailscale instance in containers. Don’t use host networking, use bridge or something else. Connect to that node as an exit node

As an (advanced) alternative to Gluetun + Tailscale I propose tswg (my project)

I’ve vaguely thought about this with Split DNS.

My concern would be the need to set up some non-Tailnet mechanism to expose it to the internet and keep it secure. Either port forwarding, Pangolin, or even using Funnel… all of which would be better off on a separate device (and maybe a separate VLAN)

It’d be an interesting idea for sure, perhaps for when I can get myself the separate Headscale-dedicated device. Although now I’d have to learn the “normal” zone-based networking ahah

That’s a nice thing with Wireguard yea. I’ll keep this in mind if ever I can grok Tailscale to do such things

• DNS adjustments aren’t needed if you do .well-known delegations which is easier
• Can recommend continuwuity, it runs much better on less resources. Lacks certain features compared to Synapse but overall good
• Notifications (and read markers) depend on client-specific black magic to work
• Federation do sometimes silent-fail completely, you can reset continuwuity’s cache + restart when that happens. But full room history convergence needs patience
• Don’t join large rooms unless your server can handle the load
• Don’t host public rooms without modbots

The many small bugs make Matrix still bad - I wouldn’t recommend a non-tech user unless accompanied by a 24/7 admin. It is trying to improve but very slow because of reasons

Should’ve specifically asked the operators/hosters if they need a better answer. But this has more engagement so

Worth noting that there’s an open issue to support Wireguard peers into Headscale, so you could use it with e.g. a wg0.conf file from a commercial VPN

If you can selfhost and can use containers/docker, I wanna shamelessly plugin my solution: https://github.com/stratself/tswg. Basically mount a WireGuard config from Nord or any upstream VPN, and the container will tunnel traffic to said VPN when you choose it as an exit node.

There are other gluetun + tailscale solutions that are worth a look too

Ah right, completely forgot about that (80 for HTTP-01, 443 for TLS-ALPN-01). Is a bummer unfortunately

Thanks for the guide. How did you get the VPN forwarded port? I believe this depends on the VPN provider’s software?

Let’s Encrypt are rolling out IP-based certs, you may wanna follow its development. I’m not sure if it could be used for your forwarded VPN port, but it’d be nice anyhow

Edit: I believe encryption helps prevent tampering the data between the server and user too. It should prevent for example, someone MITM the connection and injecting malicious content that tells the user to download malware

I’ve poked around Homarr’s setup a bit, and it seems like it can run rootless after a few tweaks!

For anyone interested, I’ve written a POC and feature request here - https://github.com/homarr-labs/homarr/issues/3913

Hope it can be officially supported

Thanks for the advice. I’m already using podman rootless with custom subuid/subgid, which should achieve the same thing

I agree that the file sync is good. They (and owncloud afaik) are the only ones supporting virtual files on windows where you only download files when needed, saving storage space.

I suppose these fancy file features (bidirectional syncing, advanced conflict resolution etc) are targeted to the enterprise, not home users. So it’s natural they’d include it with a bunch of bells and whistles that are half as good

Owncloud had a rewrite called oCIS (Owncloud Infinite Scale). Then it was bought by Kiteworks. Then many of the core devs switched to a new product/company called Opencloud. There’s been quite some history over the past few years

Hey, glad you got it working. I’m late to the party, but I got a similar solution here: https://github.com/stratself/tswg. Basically just mounts your own wg.conf to the container and get Tailscale connected over it

Since Wireguard is peer-to-peer, I suppose the “intended” way is to install Tailscale on every client. But it is possible to use the router as a VPN gateway as per this [OpenWRT guide])https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/tailscale/start#force_lan_traffic_to_route_through_exit_node). Hope you get it working anyhow