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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] Rick 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Plex with the ARR apps have changed my life and save me and my family about 1k per year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The whole ARR stuff is only for torrents, right?

[–] Cyanogenmon 2 points 2 years ago

Yes and no. They do have some connections to NZB, but primarily used for torrents.

Search on sonarr for TV > add series to sonarr > search for series by episode or season > sonarr asks prowlarr (or jackett) to search torrent providers > find and add episode or season > prowlarr finds torrent and sends to sonarr > sonarr sends torrent to your torrent client to download (I use qbittorrent) > done.

If setup correctly, once the download is finished, sonarr will copy the series to your media server folder so it's accessible from plex/jellyfin/emby/what have you.

It does leave the initial files in the torrent software for seeding purposes. I'm sure there is a setting in there somewhere to disable that, but always seed!

The search can be entirely automated too. Handful of apps integrate with sonarr/radarr so you can have your server users request shows and sonarr would find them and add them automatically for you.

You can also specify release type in quality and specifically if it's a rip or HDTV recording, assuming the provider reports that which most do.

Lastly, you can specify by size ranges. It takes a good while to find something you like, but to keep your server from filling up, you can limit the max size for a single episode or movie (in radarr).

My only real complaint is the automated search in sonarr is by episode so you can get a mixed back of quality that way. You can manually search for an entire season. It can't correctly deal with a full series release on its own so some manual work would be needed there.

It's effort for sure, but worth it.

[–] Rick 2 points 2 years ago

Basically yeah

[–] Jivebunny 0 points 2 years ago

Nah, also newsgroups/newsservers. Also pretty much 'Arrr mateys.'

[–] Jivebunny 0 points 2 years ago

Nah, also newsgroups/newsservers. Also pretty much 'Arrr mateys.'

[–] Jivebunny 0 points 2 years ago

Nah, also newsgroups