Those are all totally fair considerations, just not requirements in my workflow. I’m coming at it from a personal use case, where I don’t need offline access to my personal email, and I only have one email account to check (my Gmail is forwarded to my Proton mail).

My question was more to lead OP down the requirements gathering path, to evaluate their actual needs and if a client is actually required or if it’s more of a “nice to have”.

Thanks for laying out some of those advantages to a client though. Every user has their own needs and if offline access, multiple accounts, consistent UI, etc. are desired, then a client is certainly a great option.

I guess the question is, why do you need a client? I find most web interfaces to be sufficient, you can enable browser notifications, create an “app” so that it’s in a stand-alone window, etc.

As another comment said, I just use the Proton web interface.

What’s your preferred method for controlling each client? Do you have a wireless multimedia keyboard at each TV? Remote with an IR receiver?

Any different than just using a Fire stick/Roku/Shield at each TV with a different user logged in on each?

This is an intriguing use case, hence the questions. I’ll be moving back into our reno’ed house and planning out TVs, etc.

Yeah, different port* (8097) for the second instance.

Missed opportunity to move to Lemmy. I have no issues with them opening a forum, but it’s something I have to deliberately visit solely for Jellyfin rather than an aggregator type UI