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"Sonarr for YouTube" - a tool to periodically check various YouTube playlists and take actions when new videos are posted - derekantrican/subarr
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    3 months ago

    IMO the trouble is that there are so many of the things now that I need a damn flowchart to understand how they work together and which ones I need.

    (No, seriously: I want to set up an *arr stack but don’t understand how. Could somebody please send me a flowchart??)

    • cerothem@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Here’s a very old flow chart I made for some folks that didn’t want to use Linux. Though it mostly applies to any serup

    • DesolateMood@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      For the purposes of this explanation sonarr and radarr are the same, but keep in mind that sonarr only does tv shows and radarr only does movies

      You tell sonarr what you want to watch --> sonarr tells prowlarr what you want to watch --> prowlarr will search websites for magnet links to your show (you have to specify which websites) --> prowlarr will give the download manager (qbittorrent, etc) the magnet link and it will download it --> sonarr will take the downloaded file and copy it somewhere else for organizational purposes --> media server (jellyfin) will see the copied file and download associated metadata (thumbnail, episode name, episode number, etc) and allow you to watch it

      The only programs you need for a purely functional arr stack are sonarr/radarr, prowlarr, qbittorrent, and jellyfin, or any other media server. Anything else is purely icing on the cake

      • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        If I remember correctly, you don’t really need Prowlarr. It’s useful if you’re using multiple *arr services, but Prowlarr manages your indexers, the place *arr services look for content, and syncs them to your other *arr services so THEY can do the search. I don’t think Prowlarr itself ever looks for content automatically, only if you manually search through Prowlarr.

      • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Trash is a great place to start. There was another guy I found helpful, too. Dr Frankenstein, I think? Also, I can’t remember where I found the swag write-up I used for my current setup, but swag/dockerproxy are awesome. No open ports on the router, and automatic subdomain/SSL setup w/ Cloudlfare by adding 1 label to the compose file.

        Only 2 notes I have about Trash guides are:

        1. Include some kind of ingest directory for qbittorrent. Helpful when you want to d/l a torrent that’s not managed by one of the arrs. Just save it there and thy will be done!
        2. Pay close attention to the quality settings. Most don’t have a fallback quality. So if you say you want 4k for movies, it will often fail to find something, especially if it’s older, and you have to go see why, change the quality to 1080, etc. Instead, use the quality guide to understand how it works, and set up what you want with appropriate fallback. For example, I prefer to get 720p for TV. Especially w/ long running shows they can take up A LOT of space, even at 1080! BUT sometimes 720 just isn’t available. 1080 is usually the first thing that comes out, so I add 1080 as second choice. For older shows, I add DVD quality as third choice, HDTV next, and 480p last (probably have those last two backwards). This way, it will pretty much always get something decent, and if the quality I want is ever released, I have it configured to continually search. Looking over the Trash guides definitely helped me dial this in, but I’m not using the stock version of any of their presets.

        One thing I need to figure out is identifying shows that have hearing disabled tracks as their default/only. I’ve been watching Taskmaster, and lots of the episodes in more recent seasons have the descriptive voice-over that’s annoying to me since I don’t need it.

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      All you actually need are sonarr (tv) radarr (movies) overseer (request management) and prowlarr (indexer management) you don’t actually need the last two.

    • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      If you want movies you use Radarr, and if you want TV Shows you use Sonarr. And if you want either of those to use torrent sites to find things rather than Usenet, you setup Prowlarr to convert from those random sites into the format Radarr and Sonarr support.

      There are others, but that’s a place to start.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Flowchart? Try googling it maybe. I’m not sure if there is anything useful, but it’s worth a query. The site Atherel posted has some guides that might be useful in general information and more detailed installation and configuration.