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submitted 1 year ago by olafurp@lemmy.world to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

The setup and instructions helped a lot with setting up. My library is small and local now but the future is bright. Thank you all for writing info answers and docs.

Special thanks for all the devs of Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Torrent clients and nzb360.

Extra special thanks to the devs at Jellyfin. Honestly this whole set blew my mind.

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[-] nix@merv.news 14 points 1 year ago

You might like Reiverr it’s “a clean combined interface for Jellyfin, TMDB, Radarr and Sonarr, as well as a replacement to Overseerr” and it’s made by a Lemmy user

[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That looks awesome. I'll consider migration if they get Homarr integration.

[-] nix@merv.news 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ive never use homarr it looks like itd be an alternative to revierr? Idk whats its used for exactly so im not sure how theyd work together. but you could ask the creator. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/1910033

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[-] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Homarr is a dashboard. Integration would be a widget that shows info.

[-] m0nky@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

This looks very, very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[-] virku@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I have been thinking of setting up my own media server for a long time but never got around to researching/doing anything about it. So seeing this post from the main page of Lemmy was very intriguing. Can anybody tell me with simple words what all these tools do?

Are any of the applications in the list used to stream the media to your devices, or do you need a different app like plex or similar for this?

[-] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin is the media server. (Like Plex but free open source, and a cleaner interface.)

[-] virku@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thanks!

If I understood the github link correctly the stack is basically for downloading, renaming, moving and keeping track of what media you have watched?

[-] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Correct!

  • VPN - hides that it's you downloading stuff.
  • Radarr - downloads and organizes movies.
  • Sonarr - downloads and organizes TV series.
  • Prowlarr - allows searching many torrent and usenet sites simultaneously, and makes the results available for the *arr services.
  • qBittorrent - downloads the torrents that Radarr and Sonarr requests
  • Jellyfin - mediaserver that can stream the media downloaded by the *arrs to you smast TV, computers, phones and tablets.
[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

To add, nzb360 is a paid app to interact with the services from your phone easily with a killer UI. Worth the money imo.

[-] virku@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Cool thanks!

This was exactly the explanation I was hoping for. Vpn and torrent I have used before, but the rest was new for me.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

whats the purpose of a media server

[-] virku@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

See this reply to my questions here for a good walkthrough of what this stack of software does. Basically helps you make your own streaming service by downloading what you want to host from different sources and you can access it from your devices. Like your own custom Netflix.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

okay but how do you even get media for this 'custom netflix'? do yiu just pirate?

[-] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Yes but don't tell anyone.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago
[-] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Download a torrent file and put it into a torrent client. Let the client download the torrent. Take the resulting file and watch it using the video player of your choice.

[-] virku@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

See the other reply I linked to for the tools. In those tools you define what torrent sites you want to download from and if set up correctly it should do the torrent searching and downloading for you.

[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ísland er best

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

what even is a media stack im so confused

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

A stack is the pile of software that builds on other software to get something done. I'm here from /local so I don't know what any of these programs are, but for example the classic website server "stack" is LAMP : Linux, Apache (web server software), MySql (database software), PHP (backend website language).

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

oh cool so if i ran nextcloud id need all that?

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I've never heard of it before (remember I'm just passing through this community) but it looks like they have a docker container available. You would probably only need to install docker on your server, then get the next cloud docker container, and run it. The container (probably) has a web server and database and stuff built in.

[-] drizzt09@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I use rdtclient, Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr and Emby (considering the switch to JF). Because I am using rdtclient with RealDebrid, no VPN is required. Because I use Prowlarr I only have to use prowlarr to connect to rdtclient. Sonarr and Radarr use prowlarrs indexers and rdtclient connection. Simpler setup.

There is also another "combined" service like your mentioned one called Bobarr.

[-] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

EDIT: I know see what sub I am in, and apologize. It was just a simple question.

Is there a similar guide for Plex that someone can point me to? I’ve always been interested in the arr services, and would like to try them out.

this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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