I have bought my first proper home server and am setting up a full stack of media services on truenas scale after years of doing everything manually. In that regard I have set up jellyfin, sabnzbd and radarr, and the next step is to add jellyserr it seems. But then I stumble across prowlarr and cannot figure out if it is a contender to or a supplement to jellyserr. Can somebody tell me what the difference is, if I should use both if they are complementing each other or which you are using if they are competing?

  • virku@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I have radarr working fine in combination with sabnzb (i am on usenet instead of torrenting). What does prowlarr do in between them?

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      The other person is wrong. Your Usenet indexers will work on prowlarr. The most important feature that Prowlarr has that gets overlooked is that it will sync your indexers into the other arr programs like radarr sonarr, lidarr, etc… automatically. You make a change on prowlarr it syncs to them all. It’s the ideal solution for managing indexers all in one place.

      • virku@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Thanks! So prowlarr is the only place my indexers should be configured. And sonarr and radarr should only be configured with downloaders?

        • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          Yeah. Once you add indexer to prowlar it will be visible in radarr as well (also sonarr, lidarr, etc).

          Jelyseerr is amazing GUI that you can use to grab media instead of logging in to radarr or sonarr.

          I recommend both!

        • LifeBandit666@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          If you’re only intend to use Radarr you can set your NZB indexer there and your downloader.

          If you plan to add more arr later like Sonarr you can use Prowlarr and just link it, and not have to configure your indexers again in Sonarr.

          Honestly if you’re using nzb you’ll only really need the nzb indexer so it shouldn’t be all that hard to set up in other programmes

          • virku@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            I will be using sonarr and maybe others as well. I have set it up now. I liked prowlarr a lot. I have a language specific torrent site I have added to it and it seems like prowlarr is the only place I can select exactly which language to download.

    • ArrowOriki@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      33·
      8 months ago

      If you are only using usenet then prowlarr will do nothing. Prowlarr aggregates torrent indexers and searches them for your request

      • virku@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Ah thanks! I have a specialist (Norwegian language) torrent site I couln’t get working in radarr. I have to give prowlarr a go then!