Cloudflare CDN and Lan Networks

[hazell20 0]

hi guys

 

just wanted to find out if I could get some I have emby running on a remote VPS. I setup the LAN networks feature so users didn't have to use a password on my Lan. after having few speed issues I decided to run emby through Cloudflare CDN. that looks to be working fine. but cant setup lan networks with Cloudflare CDN  on has anyone else had this issue.

[Luke 42083]

@@pir8radio may have some cloudfare tips. Thanks !

[hazell20 0]

thanks for your quick reply waiting to hear.

 

added all cloudflare ip ranges as it mentions cloudflare ips in activity tab still not working

 

regards

rhys 

Edited December 8, 2018 by hazell20

[pir8radio 1312]

thanks for your quick reply waiting to hear.

 

added all cloudflare ip ranges as it mentions cloudflare ips in activity tab still not working

 

regards

rhys 

 

 

What do you mean LAN feature?   you don't want it to be wide open with no passwords for everyone right?  Which is what it sounds like you are trying to do.   since your server is on a VPS in a data center, EVERY connection is remote, you don't want emby thinking every remote connection is local.  What are you trying to do?  

Edited December 8, 2018 by pir8radio

[hazell20 0]

i want to use pins from certain ip address like home isp public ip and passwords from other connections. 

 

this was working before i turned on the cdn network in cloudflare

 

regards 

rhys 

Edited December 9, 2018 by hazell20

[pir8radio 1312]

i want to use pins from certain ip address like home isp public ip and passwords from other connections. 

 

this was working before i turned on the cdn network in cloudflare

 

regards 

rhys 

 

If things are setup correctly you should either see the clients real IP in your emby dashboard, or BOTH the clients IP and the cloudflare edge server that handled the connection (like mine below).  And you should be able to add your ISP to the "LAN Networks" field in emby.  But i think this also disables bandwidth related transcoding when emby thinks you are on a LAN (someone correct me if i'm wrong) which would make it difficult to stream.

 

As you can see in this screenshot I  connected to my server using IPv6 (could be another problem of yours) and another user connected using IPv4.  But either way you see the real client IP, cloudflare server ip.

 

Edited December 9, 2018 by pir8radio

[hazell20 0]

If things are setup correctly you should either see the clients real IP in your emby dashboard, or BOTH the clients IP and the cloudflare edge server that handled the connection (like mine below).  And you should be able to add your ISP to the "LAN Networks" field in emby.  But i think this also disables bandwidth related transcoding when emby thinks you are on a LAN (someone correct me if i'm wrong) which would make it difficult to stream.

 

As you can see in this screenshot I  connected to my server using IPv6 (could be another problem of yours) and another user connected using IPv4.  But either way you see the real client IP, cloudflare server ip.

 

 

thanks for the reply 

that is how I thought it worked and tried adding both ips as well as cloudflares ipranges as that change sometimes. but still, want me to put in passwords. had not thought about the bandwidth implications might try to look it to that.

 

Reagrds 

rhys 

[hazell20 0]

im trying to make it simple for family members on android tv but keep my server secure 

[pir8radio 1312]

im trying to make it simple for family members on android tv but keep my server secure 

 

 

do they log off all the time?   I have all of my firetv's and my families set to auto login their account, i dont even think my parents know their password lol

[hazell20 0]

a couple of tv's share accounts otherwise would use emby connect