Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Set up live TV in Jellyfin without buying any hardware tuner. Use M3U Tuner plugin, Threadfin, or Dispatcharr to stream IPTV channels with EPG data directly in your Jellyfin interface.
Master Jellyfin playlists: manual creation, smart auto-updating playlists via plugins, sharing with users, M3U import, and music playlist management. Everything about playlists in one guide.
Arvio unifies Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and Stremio into one Android TV interface. Discover the best addons to extend its capabilities: media servers, IPTV, tracking, metadata, and utility addons explained.
The Intel N100 dominated budget Jellyfin servers. Now the N150 and upcoming successors push performance further. Compare specs, transcoding benchmarks, and find out if it is time to upgrade your media server.
Shokofin connects Jellyfin to Shoko Server for AniDB-accurate anime metadata, automatic episode grouping, watch tracking sync, and proper anime ordering. Complete setup guide from Docker to playback.
The Raspberry Pi 5 with an NVMe HAT finally solves the Pi storage bottleneck. But does it make the Pi 5 a viable Jellyfin server in 2026? We benchmarked library scan speed, metadata loading, Direct Play performance, and compared it head-to-head against the Intel N100 mini PC. Includes NVMe HAT installation, Docker setup, and honest recommendations for when the Pi 5 is enough and when you should spend $50 more on an N100.
Your Jellyfin server is only as good as your internet upload speed for remote users. This practical guide provides exact bandwidth calculations for every streaming scenario: 1080p encodes, 4K remuxes, transcoded streams, and simultaneous users. Includes a simple formula to calculate your maximum concurrent remote streams, ISP upload speed recommendations, and strategies to serve more users with limited bandwidth.
How much electricity does your Jellyfin server actually use? We measured real-world power draw with a Kill-A-Watt meter across 8 common setups: Intel N100, N305, Synology NAS, old laptop, desktop PC, Raspberry Pi 5, Nvidia Shield, and a full rack server. Includes idle vs transcoding watts, annual electricity cost, and the break-even point for upgrading hardware.
Transform your Jellyfin interface into a Netflix clone with the JellyFlix theme. One-click install via Skin Manager or copy-paste CSS. Before and after screenshots included.
