Just Thanks! (emby works during internet outage)

[TMCsw 249]

Just thought I’d take a moment to give my thanks to emby and maybe give a few tips for everyone whom needs to use emby when your internet goes down/is unavailable...     

Background: My ISP alerted me that there will be some outages starting today thru Monday while they upgrade the fiber in my area (not sure why I already have solid 1.5G). But my internet was indeed down for over 2 hours late this morning.

Servers were unaffected (4.7.13 and 4.8.0.43). Worked as usual and could connect to my HDHR’s (Quadro and Flex) for Live TV and Recordings.

Fire Stick’s (4K & 4K Max): at first seamed like they would not work (no apps available on home screen) → go to settings → apps then launch emby (works perfect).

ROKU Stick:(was unplugged because I don't l hate it) complains about no network, just hit continue anyway then emby works fine.

Local web access worked fine.

My android tablet was/is using my FQDN (so I can access emby on the WAN) No surprise here (there was no way for my router to loop-back when there is no internet available). But the android app worked fine.

I also tried switching servers (stable/beta) without any problems (other than needing to give my password). 

But from past experience if I(or you)(generally speaking) use a combination modem/router supplied by your ISP then when the ISP's internet is out it will not support your LAN and connections will quickly fail! (DNS/DHCP laps or just connection issues)

So get your Own router and Bridge your ISP’s device (or if they offer it get a pure modem (without any router capabilities) if availably) so you can use your own router for your LAN when there is no internet.

Again emby, Thanks for the hard work…

Edited August 27, 2023 by TMCsw

[Luke 42083]

Hi, we're glad to hear about your experience. Thanks for the feedback !

[js28194 36]

13 hours ago, TMCsw said:

My android tablet was/is using my FQDN (so I can access emby on the WAN) No surprise here (there was no way for my router to loop-back when there is no internet available). But the android app worked fine.

If using custom firmware such as DD-WRT or Merlin (in my case), modify DNSMASQ file and add "address=/mydomainname/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" 

For me it is located in /jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add file.

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your internal serverIP.  Hairpin NAT issue resolved.

 

[TMCsw 249]

@js28194Thanks, for the tip but I'm happy the way it works as I'm using it.