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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[–] virku 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] virku 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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 4 points 9 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 1 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

whats the purpose of a media server

[–] virku 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes but don't tell anyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

how

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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 1 points 9 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.