1y ago

Useful apps to self-host

I am setting up my NAS right now, and I need some suggestions for apps that I can run on my NAS or self-host.

I have seen some online articles, but they are too confusing because they list too many apps for each category.
I want backup apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. (It would be great if they could back up automatically).
I want to sync my calendars and contacts.
I want to download media like TV shows and movies. (And music, too). “Of course, only legal obtained from the internet cough.”
I want apps that let me access my data from anywhere.
I saw this cool thing where you could use a Raspberry Pi to access your NAS bios from your PC.

Os - Unraid

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For the downloading media part:
The *arr stack is what you're looking for + Jellyfin for streaming (Opensource, 100% free, and much better than Plex).
Prowlarr: manage your indexers
Radarr: find/automatically download movies
Sonarr: find/automatically download tv shows
Jellyfin: streaming your media
Look up trashguides for setting up all this stuff, very detailed guides. They are compatible with torrents and Usenet. I like using docker with portainer for easy management and if you use a VPN container you can selectively route these containers through the VPN so your other services that dont require the VPN dont need to route through it.
- Jellyfin for streaming (Opensource, 100% free, and much better than Plex).
  *Better for your wallet and the privacy, not better in any functional way.
  
  Plex gotten around to av1 transcoding yet?
  
  I think it depends on your clients. If you're using Roku, you can skip Jellyfin..sadly.
  
  Still gotta pay for guide data iirc. Has that changed?
  An update for the Roku app was released 5 days ago which massively improves it (finally an OSD!). It's getting there.
  
  I use zap2xml or whatever it is. Simple script and crontab job and it's worked without issue for near two years now I guess (since I initially configured it.) All free. I'm in the States so not sure if it's location dependent or not.
  
  Well not better, just cheaper.
  
  Never used Plex, but if being open source is a feature Jellyfin is better than Plex.
  Not requiring an external authentication server is the biggest drawback of Plex. I don't want Plex to have my watch history and info about my media library.
  With Findroid supporting the intro skip plugin I'm fine since I don't need many platforms.
  
  And Android TV, it's gotten better, but generally still sucks.
  I use Jellyfin because it's FOSS, private, and it's also written in a tech stack I'm very familiar with.not because it's better than flex, because it really isn't.
  
  I've used both extensively and stand by my statement, from a functional standpoint as well.
  
  That’s a bold opinion given its barebones UI, widespread playback issues, and lack of basic functionality like a proper intro skip. Like even Emby is miles ahead of Jellyfin. Which isn’t surprising given JF is free but let’s be real lol
  
  Clearly just upset you got conned into paying hundreds for an inferior product
  
  No I would love to switch to Jellyfin. I ditched Plex after some of their more recent shenanigans but Jellyfin is just so vastly inferior on almost every front that it’s difficult to even compare the two. For now I’m using Emby which is another fork of the same project Jellyfin is and it’s a lot closer to feature parity with Plex. And I’ll gladly pay money for a quality product over settling for a free product that doesn’t really get the job done.
  I just hope that one day Jellyfin reaches a maturity that it’s actually worth switching to.

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