Solo watching and a clearer offline start
Putting anything up offline starts a solo session: an in-app server bound to 127.0.0.1 only, joined like hosting, so tracking, next episode and the player all work. Invite friends re-hosts on the Host card's port and password with the same media and position; Stop needs no confirmation. Offline, the Library opens with a welcome band (Join a friend, Host, Watch solo); without a Jellyfin account it leads with Files and Link, Jellyfin is an optional card. Play buttons work offline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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must run the same protocol version, and a mismatch is refused with a message
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telling you to update.
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## Getting started
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Three ways in, all at the top of the Library when you are not in a server.
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None of them needs Jellyfin or an account.
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- **Join a friend** (most people): your friend sends you an address and,
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maybe, a password. See [Join](#join).
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- **Host**: you have the video and friends watch it with you. See
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[Host from the app](#host-from-the-app).
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- **Watch solo**: just play something from the Library. It plays for you
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alone, with everything a server has (Jellyfin progress, next episode,
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skip buttons); nothing is reachable from outside this computer. Invite
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friends in the strip turns it into a hosted server (the Host card's port
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and password) and the video carries on from where it was; Stop ends it.
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## The window
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One window. Along the top, the strip: your avatar (click it for your
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profile: name, picture with a crop editor, colour, and links to the
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settings), the Library / Schedule / Settings tabs, and the party. Offline
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the party side has Join and Host; in a server it shows everyone's avatar
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the party side has Join a friend and Host; watching solo it says Solo,
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with Invite friends and Stop; in a server it shows everyone's avatar
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with a ring for their state (green ready, amber buffering, grey not ready,
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dimmed reconnecting, dimmed with a moon sitting out; a crown on whoever
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hosts, a tower on whoever passes the video on). Click the avatars for the
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@@ -108,7 +124,8 @@ a folder or a link anywhere on the window, or press Ctrl+V outside a
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text field, and a small card asks how to open it (put it up, add the
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folder to Files, or fill Link).
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- **Jellyfin**: your linked servers (see below). Library chips beside the
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- **Jellyfin**: your linked servers (see below); with none linked it
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points to Files and Link and offers Jellyfin as optional. Library chips beside the
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switch, then one **Continue** row (what you were watching and what comes
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next, one card per series, the one you watched most recently first;
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series not touched for two months drop out) and **Latest in** each
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- **Files**: video folders you add on this computer, grouped by series
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(click a series to list its episodes), or any file through Browse. The others stream it from you.
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Put it up and the player opens. Offline the library browses but nothing
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goes up until you join or host ("Join or host to watch together").
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Put it up and the player opens. Not in a server, the buttons say Play
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and it plays for you alone ([Watch solo](#getting-started)).
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## Dedicated server
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