How Does Emby Detect External IP Address?

[bingehub 0]

How does Emby get the external IP? In my setup, I route traffic at the perimeter based on destination.

 

For instance, Plex uses http://plex.tv/pms/:/ip to determine the external IP address and nslookup reveals all the IPs I need. However, if I do an nslookup for emby.media, the IP returned doesn't give me an IP I can use to get the correct route.

[Luke 42078]

Hi, we use these:

http://ipv4bot.whatismyipaddress.com
http://ipv6bot.whatismyipaddress.com

With a fallback to

https://connect.emby.media/service/ip

[chowbok 132]

Not sure if this helps anyone, but if you ever want a shell one-liner for determining your external IP, this will work:

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

[bingehub 0]

 

Hi, we use these:

http://ipv4bot.whatismyipaddress.com
http://ipv6bot.whatismyipaddress.com

With a fallback to

https://connect.emby.media/service/ip

 

Thanks, that did the trick!

[kikinjo 281]

What if like me user is running server on non public interface ? I have 2 interfaces , eth0 public, tun0 internal. What is the impact of this check on config like this and impact on live tv for example ?

[Luke 42078]

You can always set the value in advanced settings.

[bingehub 0]

What if like me user is running server on non public interface ? I have 2 interfaces , eth0 public, tun0 internal. What is the impact of this check on config like this and impact on live tv for example ?

 

It looks like you mean you are using a VPN on tun0 for Emby. This check shouldn't have any impact since all it does is help Emby resolve your WAN IP address. In my case I needed Emby to detect a non-default static route.

Edited February 15, 2019 by bingehub

[Adam_Kearn 1]

On 2/10/2019 at 7:13 AM, Luke said:

Hi, we use these:

http://ipv4bot.whatismyipaddress.com
http://ipv6bot.whatismyipaddress.com

With a fallback to

https://connect.emby.media/service/ip

Hey @Luke,

Sorry for tagging onto an old post.
Do you know if the results generated from these are accessable from the API?    (I had a look on swagger but coudn't see anything related)

I am working on a pluging that needs to access the public IP.

Thanks.
Adam.

Edited April 6, 2021 by Adam_Kearn

[Luke 42078]

Yes, system/info will include the detected lan and wan addresses.

[Adam_Kearn 1]

43 minutes ago, Luke said:

Yes, system/info will include the detected lan and wan addresses.

Hey @Luke,

I had looked at that endpoint earler.   It looks like if you have a domain setup with emby it will show that instead of the public IP.

I am looking to get the true public IP.
I am working on a plugin that will intergrate with multiple DDNS providers to allow users to easly link there server to a domain.

I only started it last night so haven't written much code yet.   But here is what I've done so far.

Regards,
Adam.

[Luke 42078]

Quote

I had looked at that endpoint earler.   It looks like if you have a domain setup with emby it will show that instead of the public IP.

I am looking to get the true public IP.

Right, there's no way to do that, sorry.