Your phone and TV

Open the server to your home network, scan or type one code, and Mediagg adds Jellyfin and every service.

Once the server is set up, Mediagg can take everything it installed — Jellyfin and every service, with their keys — in one go. Nothing is typed but a six-digit code.

On the computer

On the dashboard, open Devices — or press Pair a phone or TV. Under Watch it on your phone and TV, press Open to my home network and confirm: each service restarts, and so does the dashboard, back in a few seconds. Until then the server answers the computer only; afterwards it answers your home network — not the internet. Every service still asks for your password, and FlareSolverr, which has none, stays on the computer. (A computer with no screen, set up from another one, is on your network from the start.)

The card then shows a QR code and a six-digit code. Each code works once, for ten minutes; New pairing code gives another.

Whose phone or TV it is

The card asks Who is this phone or TV for?, and a new code appears for whoever you choose:

• You — the usual answer. Your phone and TV sign in as a user of yours with every library, who cannot change the media servers' settings, so a lost phone never carries your administrator account.
• Someone under People — the device signs in as them, to what is theirs, and nothing else.
• You, as the administrator, with your name — your own login, which can change the media servers' settings.

On your phone

Either:

• Scan it. Point the phone's camera app at the QR code and tap Open in Mediagg. Mediagg opens with the code already filled in.
• Type it. In Mediagg, open Media servers in the Library and press Add a server. The first choice is Mediagg Arr Stack — Everything your stack installed, added in one go.

Mediagg looks for the server on your network by itself (Looking for it on your network…) and fills in the Computer address. Type the Code and press Add everything.

On your TV

In Mediagg, open Add and choose Mediagg Arr Stack. It finds the computer by itself; type the code with the remote and confirm.

What you get

• Your media servers — Jellyfin, Emby, Navidrome, Audiobookshelf — join Media servers, signed in. Each phone or TV gets a sign-in of its own to Jellyfin, Emby and Audiobookshelf, under its own name, rather than your password; you can see them in those servers' lists of devices.
• Plex asks you to sign in with your plex.tv account: its sign-in opens next, with the address already filled in.
• Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr and the rest appear under Mediarr in Media servers, already connected.

When it is done Mediagg says Added everything from and your computer's name. If one service could not be added, it says which, and why; the others are kept.

Paired

The first code a phone or TV takes pairs it: the server gives it a pairing token, which Mediagg keeps in the device's secure storage. With it, Mediagg keeps up by itself:

• When the computer's address changes — routers sometimes hand out a new one — Mediagg looks for the server on your network the next time it starts, recognises it, and moves every service to the new address.
• When you install a service later, or reinstall one with new keys, Mediagg picks it up. It checks at most twice a day.

Paired devices, under Devices, lists each one — whose it is, and when it paired — with Unpair: its token stops working and the sign-ins made for it end, so it needs a new pairing code. Unpair all phones and TVs does that to every one.

To stop the address changing at all, reserve the computer's address in your router.

If it does not work

• No stack answered on this network. — the phone is on another Wi-Fi, or the server has not been opened to your home network. Type the address the Devices card shows, or press Look again.
• That code was not accepted. — it was mistyped, used already or more than ten minutes old. Press New pairing code on the dashboard.
• This stack is newer than this version of Mediagg. — update Mediagg, then try again.