I have this stack for 1 year and had 0 issues, 0 maintenance. It just werks.

Im having problem on some new releases where it downloads clear malware with. Exe files, its detecting it and not moving them to my jellyfine storage but it always requires manual intervention. I havent been able to find a way to stop sonarr from grabbing releases before their official releas and with n amount of seedwrs/leechers

Instead of multiple Radarr and Sonarr instances, wouldn't it be simpler to have multiple quality profiles on a single instance?

Curious question, I host a single instance of sonarr that supports anime through tags. Is there an advantage to hosting 2 instances instead?

sabnzbd can be replaced with nzbdav or similar tools (infinidysk, altmount) if you want to free up storage and stream directly from usenet.

Or, even better, the entire arr stack can be replaced with stremio to just keep everything on-demand instead of curating a library at all.

With agents I am surprised nobody has combined Plex + qbittorrrent + seerr + *arr into one mega app

The interfaces of arr stack are ugly, and linking qbit to indexer manager to arr app is needlessly complex. Maybe there could be plugins in one app like qbit.

Prowlarr replaces Jackett?

https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

> I would also recommend consulting the TRaSH guide to tune your setup

Yes and no. E.g. I find Trash guide to quality profiles/settings useless. I wish *arr apps shipped with decent modern quality by default. No, I'm not downloading and watching a Quantum Quality UXZHD Post-Partum HDR BVIU-49.3 format. No one is.

E.g. profilarr pulls in a more sane set of profiles: https://dictionarry.dev/quality-profile

People have been doing just that:

1. Arrmada - https://github.com/tristenlammi/Arrmada 2. Mydia - https://github.com/getmydia/mydia 3. MediaManager - https://github.com/maxdorninger/MediaManager 4. Scryer - https://github.com/scryer-media/scryer

Note: I've not tried any of these

I have one that combines most of this. I left Jellyfin out so far because it has clients for all the various devices, but I’ve replaced the arr stack, sabnzbd, jellyseerr, kavita, audio bookshelf, etc into one Rust binary and a SQLite database. As a bonus, uses local LLMs/decision models to replace a lot of the custom regex based detection of the arr stack, and a mini built in agent with tools for finding, downloading, and manipulating media so that I can find Spanish language content for my kid a bit more easily, as language stuff being tagged is still pretty weak in the ecosystem.

It represents a couple weeks of on and off work, an experiment into how far I can push these tools to make sure I’m understanding them and not falling behind, and I like it a lot. I’ve considered open sourcing it, but to be honest, I don’t really want the burden of being a maintainer, and I have no interest in implementing or maintaining things that fall outside my use case, and so it’s just my own little toy. I imagine that many folks will end up doing the same given a bit of time.

I agree. What is stopping me is primarily the metadata stuff. For example, Sonarr runs a closed-source service called Skyhook which exists to make efficient use of TheTVDB. Since Sonarr is free open source software maybe they don't have to pay (looking at https://www.thetvdb.com/api-information and https://opencollective.com/sonarr).

My dream app is split into two parts. One that serves podcasts, music, books (with OPDS so I can browse my library with KOReader), tv, movies, other multimedia (youtube, whatever else). The other handling the metadata APIs and downloading files from different sources (torrent trackers, torrent DHT, nntp, etc...). Sort of like uber-Jellyfin + uber-Arr.

I guess I can probably get a personal API key for TheTVDB, etc... and develop my own sort of proxy and it wouldn't be so bad. Hmm...

There arent many vibeslop that actually have a userbase tho, who wants a program that changes radically and is not stable?

This basically all comes for free in woltspace [0]. Woltspace believes that you should no longer bother building “scalable” apps, but personal apps that literally only run on your own machine. You can access them from anywhere (cloudflare, tailscale eg) and continuously improve them with your wolts over time - from anywhere.

It’s all open source and harness agnostic [1]. I’m the park ranger for life aka maintainer of the project. Did a recent YouTube video with what i think the future of open source multiagent setups will look like [2]

Happy to chat more about it

[0] https://woltspace.com/ [1] https://github.com/jerpint/woltspace [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4khO7o0XQ

Well, it's apparently easy, so you should do it.

Literally my only AI use case (I'm retired) is having it write all the software for things I want to do in my life, without having to take the time to do it. For example, the app my kids' school uses to communicate with parents SUCKS (it's so slow), so I wrote something that logs in, pulls new updates, and feeds them to the same AI that manages my calendar/to-do list.

By "I" wrote something, I mean I had an AI do it in about ten minutes.

To your actual point, there used to be a philosophy among the tech literate that it's preferable to have something do one thing and do it very well.

So we monoliths are now back in vogue instead of microservices? /s

(And I agree, for most workloads monoliths are much easier to grasp and deploy than microservices)

What did you replace Readarr with?

Solution is easy, in fact there are 2 solutions:

1. Clear that "might", it either is or isn't. An AI can get you 90% there, maybe the definitive confirmation would be good from a lawyer.

2. None of this matters if you share it from a foreign code forge and an anonymous pseudonym.

Same. I made the mistake of adding the downloader to it at the start but brute forced my way through. Single Rust binary for all of the *arrs + sabnzbd is nice though. Unfortunately it is not something I am comfortable making public due to the all-in-oneness of it.

Almost all of the time went to to the downloader (usenet is more complicated than I thought). If I had just focused on the basics (sonarr, radarr, seerr) I could probably could have knocked it out in a day or so.

I’ve had mine going for what feels like ten years now no issues. Even longer if you could some of the earlier managers out there. The arrs are some of the most solid apps I’ve run. Especially once I switched them to use Postgres.

I found this trickier to set up and use. I tried it for sports but ended up switching to Sportarr.

I don't see how. I run them with no public ingress, no plugins or mods. I don't torrent. I'm not sure there's really any attack vector worth worrying about. Certainly no more than many of the other services I host.

what the hell are you smoking? even the silly article earlier had the caveat "Yeah it downloads EXEs but its up to you or your family to run them"

and that's totally ignoring the fact that it's only a supremely naive user that hasn't yet refined their filters to exclude dangerous extensions (or, if they're too lazy to do that, rely on one of the many many pre-assembled filter/grabber settings across the net which already do so.)

what fear-mongering and FUD-spread.

You may also want to warn the public about the dangers of having curl, wget, python or gcc installed.

They expose a PLETHORA of attack vectors! you're probably already compromised, realistically!"

... and they're actually more dangerous than a free-floating EXE.