We’re excited to announce a major update: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are officially merging into a single team called Seerr. This unification marks an important step forward as we bring our efforts together under one banner.

For users, this means one shared codebase combining all existing Overseerr functionalities with the latest Jellyseerr features, along with Jellyfin and Emby support, allowing us to deliver updates more efficiently and keep the project moving forward.

Please check how to migrate to Seerr in our migration guide and stay tuned for more updates on the project!

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    I hate how so many of the arr apps don’t describe what they do in a way that people who don’t already know can understand.

    Even the tutorials and guides are frustratingly vague.

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      I’ll be honest, only the first setup gave me some trouble as I was tackling docker compose too. After you gain familiarity setting up a new arr is basically copying the provided yaml service then filling in the envs with yours

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          1 month ago

          The arr stack is for downloading media in an automated matter, for example sonarr will scan the inderxers you give them for the series you want and automatically download them. Then you can use a service like jellyfin to watch your media

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              Docker compose is how you can define a set of services and then run them. Those services are defined in a yaml file. Most programs provide their own way to be ran through docker compose. Env is a shorthand for environment, basically values you pass to customize the services.

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      I agree it took many months to figure out my arr stack and the configuration with API keys and server ip addresses. I used countless resources and guides and it didn’t help. Now I can do a fresh install of jellyfin and the arr stack in less than an hour after finally figuring it out but wow was it a hard learning curve. I have paper notes trying to decode which tools does what I was so confused

  • BaroqueW@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    No idea what either of these were in the first place. Feels like it could have been worth a mention in the post.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.

      But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.

      That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.

      That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)

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    1 month ago

    I was surprised to see emby mentioned. I thought they shot themselves so hard in their feet with the licensing changes back then that there was a reason that we only hear from jrllyfin these days.

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      Afaik Jellyfin and Emby use the same authentication so by adding Jellyfin support Emby automatically works too.

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        1 month ago

        Jellyfin is a fork of emby (from when it went closed source), so that makes sense. They have diverged quite a bit but seems the Auth hasn’t changed enough.

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    I don’t quite get what this is supposed to do. Is it basically a software to allow jellyfin/plex users to request media without needing a radarr/sonarr account?

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      Basically yes. My father can log into Overseer with his Plex account, so no new account and password, and request movies or tv shows which I can approve manually or pre-approve. I don’t have to give him admin access to my Sonarr or Radarr and the user interface is quite friendly.

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      Also great for finding trending content, ratings, trailers, and also all the work an actor/actress has done.

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    Doesn’t seem like OIDC made it into the new release, weird. Unless I missed something in the documentation. It’s been working fine on the preview branch for ages.

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      Overseerr required Plex. It was forked into Jellyseerr to allow Emby and Jellyfin accounts. Now Overseerr and Jellyseer merge into one tool called Seerr that combines the features. So no.

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    1 month ago

    I don’t know much about the *eerr stuff… Is there a good way to connect a debris service with that? I’m using Stremio+Torrention rn, but it’s crashing regularly or isn’t able to find magnet links.