Emby on Main LAN; how to get devices on IoT VLAN to see it

NilocRetep

Hello,
Hopefully this is a pretty straight forward rule that I'm just missing. My Emby Server is on PC on my main LAN - 192.168.178.0

My Firesticks and SMART TV's that have Emby on it, are on my IoT network - 192.168.179.0

Is there an easy rule to allow any device on my IoT network to access my Emby Server on my LAN network?

I have Emby working so that I can access it through my LAN and also outside connections via port 8920 and 8096. However I don't really want my IoT devices streaming via an outside connection if at all possible.

johnpoz

@nilocretep Well just allow your Iot devices IP you want to access via firewall rule on your iot interface the ports of your emby server they access. Then either access via the emby IP or fqdn that resolves to the local 192.168.178.x IP of your emby server.

I allow my rokus vlan to access my plex from their vlan

If your trying to get some sort of "discovery" to work - what discovery does it use? if just mdns then avahi could be setup to allow your devices to "discover" your emby server - but pretty sure emby clients don't need to use discovery - they just need an IP or fqdn that points to the ip.

Not exactly sure how emby works for clients - but with plex the clients know what the local IP of server is, via logging into plex. Since the plex server reports its private IP along with its public IP.. Plex clients also allow direct input of the IP of the server if need be.

The only thing needed for this to work is the allow for the rebind in dns on plex.direct - let me know if you need more help.. Can always just fire up emby server on my network for exact details.. But from firewall really you just need to let your source network talk to the ports on your destination IP (your emby server)

edit:
I just fired this up on my nas - haven't installed on any of my iot devices (roku, phone, etc) but it for sure shows the ability to just put in details of your server on the windows app

So just the firewall rules is all you should need - no need for discovery I wouldn't think.

NilocRetep

@johnpoz
Thank-you.
Yes I just created a rule like the one you have. It worked flawlessly.
Thanks again!