Access away from home

You don’t need to be connected to your local network to access your Emby hosted media – you can configure Emby to allow you to stream over the internet too, so you can enjoy your media just about anywhere you can get an internet connection. It pays to have a fast connection at home, ideally fibre-optic with a minimum 5Mbps upload speed – and don’t forget that streaming will quickly burn through any capped broadband allowance.

If your router has UPnP switched on then Emby should work over the internet with no additional configuration; otherwise, you’ll need to manually configure port forwarding and make sure you’ve assigned a static IP address to your server PC. The settings you need to look at – and tweak – can be found under Advanced > Hosting in the Manage Server section of Emby.

There are two ways to access your server remotely. First, you can do it manually by inputting your server’s public IP address (the one assigned to you by your ISP). This can change, though, so if you have a dynamic DNS host set up with the likes of no-ip.com, then

enter that into the ‘External WAN Address’ field under Advanced > Hosting, which gives you the ability to remotely configure your server via

hostname.ddns.net:8096.

The second method is easier: simply sign up for a free Emby Connect account at http://app.

emby.media. Once you’ve done this, just log into your Emby Connect account through your device’s app and you can access your media on the road. Better still, if you log in at http://app.

emby.media through a web browser then you can administer your server remotely, too.