I was having some problems uploading photos from my phone to the instance of Nextcloud I have running on my local server, so after checking all the obvious stuff; server was running, tailscale was working (another post on this to come shortly) I checked for updates on both the Android app and the docker image. This is when things went horribly wrong! The Android app was upto date, but there was a newer docker image, so I restarted the docker container, it dutifully downloaded, then I was greeted with the following:

Download and install Visual Studio Community Edition When running the installer it will ask which components are required, the only one you have to choose for Jellyfin development is .NET Desktop Development: The install will be close to 6GB so may take a while. While it is installing you can install FFMpeg, this isn’t technically required to get Jellyfin to run whilst you develop, for example if you are only working on a metadata plugin you won’t need the server to transcode anything, but if you do need make sure items play then it is best to install FFMpeg.