This is the post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1myldh3/i_built_youtubarr_the_sonarr_for_youtube/
looks cool I have been wanting something like this for a while
This is the post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1myldh3/i_built_youtubarr_the_sonarr_for_youtube/
looks cool I have been wanting something like this for a while
Why? It’s a brand at this point and lets you know exactly what its about.
What is a brand? “Sonarr”? Never heard that.
*arr services are well known in the self hosted community
https://wiki.servarr.com/
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??)
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.
All you actually need are sonarr (tv) radarr (movies) overseer (request management) and prowlarr (indexer management) you don’t actually need the last two.
Sorry, I tried but I couldn’t figure out how to use Flowcharr-t.
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
It’s not a flowchart but I would recommend the following site: https://trash-guides.info/
Lots of useful info and guides
https://github.com/Rick45/quick-arr-Stack/raw/main/img/architecture_diagram.png
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
I mean it is clear that it’s an aggregator (? Not sure what the right term is for this) but I can’t even begin to count the number of times I access Radarr instead of Sonarr because I forgot which one is for shows or movies.
Prowlarr is way more intuitive at least.
Agreed it would be nice if radarr and sonarr were combined into one, but Youtubarr is at least pretty descriptive.
Did you mean aggrrrregator?
Sonarr is for series - that’s how I remember :-)
But I use Overseer anyway, so I don’t use them often directly.
There’s more *arr tools that aren’t aggregator automation tools than there are aggregator automation tools.
Also It was only funny when using an existing words like "sonar, “radar”, “lidar”. Jellyseerr is dumb, even Jackett was pushing it.
I guess it makes it somewhat easier to associate them as part of a group of software, but now we have stuff like Homarr that is entirely unrelated, but still a useful tool.
To be fair, jellyseerr is a fork of overseerr focused on jellyfin, so the name at least makes sense.