Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.
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So what are the other services one needs to browse and stream fresh content to a device in a Netflix-like way? I hear Jellyfin, Sonarr and Radarr mentioned a lot but don’t really know where to start
Can’t really beat these instructions imo.
Stremio + torrent.io addon + optionally real Debrid (it's paid but very cheap and makes the experience better) will give you a service identical to Netflix without having to build a library of shows/movies yourself, and every show and movie available in one place.
Funny you should mention that, I just installed the stremio combo webui/server docker last night. After I got it hooked up to real debride it works surprisingly well. I do have a dedicated GPU. I was looking for something like Kodi in a webui, but I wanted to use debride and I found this app.
I'm now trying to shoehorn in IPTV and an EPG just to see if I can
I mean general concept is they all are suppose to talk to each other in some sort. Prowlarr will provide indexers to Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, etc (just going to call them the ARR’s) the ARR’s will associate the results of those indexers to TMDB/TVDB and whenever you decide to download something the ARR’s will communicate with your download/torrent client, once your download is complete the ARR’s will mark it as complete and move it to the directory/folder of your choosing making organization easy and let’s Jellyfin/Plex see the files in the way they should be shown. You can reverse proxy all these for security reasons or to avoid annoying ssl errors.
Honestly to start I would say learn the docker engine & docker compose first.
I just got this stuff up and running in the last week. Here's the basic stuff I'm using and a quick breakdown:
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Jellyfin. This is just a media server. Got media files on a hard drive? Point Jellyfin at them, and it will index and serve them in a pretty web UI on your local network.
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qBittorrent. For downloading media files based on torrents.
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Sonarr/radarr. Keep track of shows (sonarr) and movies (radarr). Keeps track of the content you have, what's missing, and keeps up on upcoming releases. Is able to use torrent indexes to find torrents, and sends them to qBittorrent. Once the download is done, automatically moves the files to your media library to get picked up by Jellyfin
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Prowlarr. Easier way to find torrent indexes. Browse indexes, pick some, and it hands them off to sonarr and radarr so they can find torrents.
This is generally how my setup is working at the moment.
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