| ▲ | adamors 3 hours ago |
| I cancelled all my streaming, and replaced it with a €20 seed box w/ Plex + radarr/sonarr etc. Have everything I want (and nothing else) and movies/shows don't get pulled without me doing it. Won't be turning back anytime soon. Physical still has the downside of needing space. I have space for books, but not much else. |
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| ▲ | _Turk_ 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I've seen a few guides to setting this up but maybe you can refer to what you used to set your own system up? Right now I'm utilizing streamio plus debridio but I've read the plex + radarr/sonarr is much superior... I"m not too tech savvy so kind of hestiant to set up |
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| ▲ | BeetleB 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The *arr stack was a pain. You'll need prowlarr for downloading. And a Bittorrent client that works with it (e.g. Ktorrent doesn't). Then you'll set up radarr/sonarr, and ensure they can talk to prowlarr. Setting up Plex is straightforward. But I think you do need to make it visible to radarr/sonarr. It was definitely a pain, but once I had it set up it's been fine. | | |
| ▲ | jjulius an hour ago | parent [-] | | >But I think you do need to make it visible to radarr/sonarr. Sort of. You tell Plex where your directories are for movies and TV shows. All you have to do with Sonarr/Radarr is have them dump the finished downloads into their respective directories. |
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| ▲ | AndroidKitKat 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Trash Guides [1] is your friend. Requires a bit of understanding whats going on but if all of these are going to be on the same computer this makes setting it up where data doesn't have to get copied around and waste time. [1] - https://trash-guides.info/ | |
| ▲ | adamors 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | To be perfectly honest, the seedbox provider had all of these installed and hooked into each other. I only had to add my various logins and configure some profiles. I would think most seedboxes offer a variation of this, so you’re not starting from scratch. | |
| ▲ | ZeWaka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Used YAMS myself which is basically just a glorified docker-compose file. | |
| ▲ | bethekind 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Me too | |
| ▲ | IncreasePosts an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I am tech savvy but hate toil. I just launched Gemini cli and ask it to install the *arr stack and it did everything for me to my satisfaction. Heck, it even recommended a few cool plugins I didn't know about. My only problem is I'm not a member of any private torrent sites :( |
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| ▲ | rustyhancock 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Gosh config of radarr and sonarr seemed impenetrable to me. I've given up my streaming box because I find passive watching so draining and trying to focus on educational content/ course and exercise. I was finding myself wallowing away hours per day passively watching endless episodes of the current biggest show. |
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| ▲ | some-guy 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not to be "that guy that just says to use LLMs", but writing out how you want these things to work on your computer to something like Claude, or heck even Google AI mode without logging in with an account, allows you to describe your ideal "home server as a docker-compose.yml file" and for me it did a damn fine job doing it. I had done this all with a previous server manually, and with a new server I simply had provided that I was a Fedora Linux box, with these hard drives, with these containers, and these are the locations of the files, etc. It worked the first try. This wasn't something that I didn't want to learn myself, but I have so little time with children and gardening on top of my super busy work at this point that I didn't have time to simply google everything. I did know enough about it beforehand to provide a general idea of what I want, so YMMV. |
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| ▲ | nipperkinfeet 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 16+ years with my setup. Seedbox + Private tracker + RSS plugin + SyncThing + Dell MFF |
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| ▲ | lelandbatey 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do note that there's a ton of media that is not very available via sailing the seas. For example, reality TV has very low availability, typically only currently airing seasons at best. Thus if you're trying to convince a family to cancel all the big streaming platforms, you may have a hard time when they learn that they can't watch old episodes of "The Real Housewives of the middle of nowhere" from 2012. |
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