I have a bunch of old bare hard drives with tons of content sitting on them, and I was thinking about setting up a new NAS / piracy Linux box, as a backend for Plex or similar.
I want to be able to index my old content and automatically grab new episodes of TV shows and popular movies, with minimal fussing around after initial setup. I am capable with technology, so happy to spend time getting it set up in the first place.
Where should I start?
First things first, pull up Trash Guides and set up the *Arr stack – Sonarr for shows, Radarr for movies, Bazarr for subs, and Prowlarr for indexers/trackers. Then setup transmission+OpenVPN or something similar to torrent behind a VPN. Finally, hook up Jellyfin so you can serve the media.
Welcome back old timer! Here’s a link to pretty much exactly the apps you’re looking for: https://wiki.servarr.com/ Happy sailing!
The *arr suite, e.g. rando hard drive TV show, add show to sonarr, import (yes it’s usually that easy), movies - radarr, seeking out stuff you’re watching now - prowlarr. Quite mature and way easier than hunting through streaming services.
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