That is plan A, I have had buffering issues doing this at various hotels though. This is more of a plan b setup. That probably wasn’t clear.

That’s fair. I’m already very familiar with jellyfin, so the setup wasn’t much concern, but the other options provided are good.

I had considered that as well. I’m just thinking out loud.

I’ll be taking an android tv box with me, so the tv lockdown is a concern. I’ll be taking my laptop w me in case I need it. I considered just installing jellyfin on that too.

i understand the ‘do vacation things’, i like to watch tv while i fall asleep, so there’s that.

Some good things to think about here.

VLC is an option I hadn’t considered, I’d still have to get the media on the hdd, but something to consider for sure. I won’t be hosting any showings, this is just for personal viewing.

Yes, I’ve used it in the past to download some stuff offline for airplanes, but I think that would be more cumbersome to download that way than automate it using sonarr/radarr, (unless this has gotten better in the past year or so). I’m expecting to have quite a bit of media on the nas since it’ll be for an entire month.

Yes, mostly just to have stuff to watch without commercials.

Hasn’t this been a rumor for like a year?

If this could be used standalone, I’d be interested. Hell, I might be interested anyways since we have no idea if the valve 2 is coming out anytime.