(Disclaimer: yes, I bought a $180 4TB Crucial SSD too, but my family split the cost with me since they’re going to use my Jellyfin server. Whether that counts towards the final cost is up to you. And the electricity cost is pretty negligible to run a Le Potato as a server, but I guess you can count that too.)
So this all started rather innocently. I was fed up with all the ads being shoved in my face with everything I do, so I finally decided that it was time to set up a Pi-hole on a single board computer. For me, it ended up being a Le Potato. I had never even touched Linux prior to this, so it took me a day or so to get everything set up. I love learning new things so I kind of got hooked on learning my way around Linux basics and decided that I was going to upgrade my setup to a Pi-hole + VPN using wireguard. That was kind of a beast to configure as a novice but I got that to work after about a week. Now I was getting ad free content anywhere I wanted on my phone. I rode that high for a few weeks until I realized that I was just scratching the surface of what I could do with my little $30 Linux server setup and this is where I really got to upgrade.
I had learned of Jellyfin from LTT and decided that I was going to test it out. I set up the Jellyfin server on the Le Potato and I was off to the races. Now I just needed content. I read through some of the wiki and settled on Mullvad+qbittorrent to find the content I wanted. With everything configured it still didn’t really feel complete, so I set up profiles for my family members and gave them their own passwords to access the content. I quickly realized that 64 GB was not nearly enough (without a rolling library) and I was getting annoyed with having to constantly swith the flash drive I was using between the Le Potato and the laptop where I was downloading my content. So I went out and bought a 4TB USB SSD from Crucial and set up access as a NAS on Ubuntu with Samba.
It’s just now finally set up. My family texts me to let me know what it is they’re wanting to watch, I torrent it, upload it to my NAS, and Jellyfin streams that content to my family 100% free. I’ve turned my 6 family members into pirates and they barely even realize it.
head over to !selfhosted@lemmy.world and watch any perceived savings evaporate into thin air. along with your spare time… seriously, its great.
Gotta give it to you, you plugged away, learned, plugged away some more and got a really nice starting base for a setup. Now it’s time to start burning time and money on ever increasing space, a docker stack, a more powerful server (leaving the pihole to handle the ads), and on and on lol. Welcome to the hobby!
I thought mullvad doesn’t work with torrenting anymore?
I used Mullvad without port forwarding before they got rid of it and it worked fine for me. That was over 400↓10↑ coax and now I port forward with ProtonVPN over fiber 500↓↑ and the speeds are better, but you’re still bottlenecked by the speed of your peers so it not that big of a deal imo
$180 for a new 4TB USB SSD? Hard drives are becoming pointless.
Less power draw, more stable, so much faster…yeah, the only real advantage to actual platters now is capacity, but at these capacities you’re likely dealing with very large files, so the convenience of an SSD is worth paying for imo
Take a look at Overseerr.
You’re welcome.
Jellyseer also works
The *arrs work well with all of the big three, I have a Jellyfin install here but it’s apps for TV and what not are really lacking and attempting to get that to work with some of my elderly relatives I don’t look forward to. Just setting up Plex with them was a nightmare.
Yes, Jellyseer works fine but it’s really only a version specifially for jellyfin when OS already has support for it.
Radarr and Sonarr both have good list parsing now, all people have to do with mine is add it to their plex/imbd/trakt watchlists.
This comment piqued my interest. I’ve been dreaming of a trakt -> torrent integration for some time now, since I actively use trakt to manage my “watched” and “want to watch” movies. In an ideal world, whenever I add a movie to my trakt wishlist, it would automatically be grabbed from a torrent on a remote seedbox. But I could’nt find any trakt integrations on the tools you named when I researched this a couple months back. Do you have any instructing links or similar where I could read more about this?
Hypothetically, a person could simply set up overseerr on a secure domain, provide that URL to those with whom the content would be shared, and they log in, do a search, and request the media.
I could see this being a very easy method of allowing others such access, quite a low barrier to entry for them while allowing the content provider the ability to vet requests.
But everyones’s use case may be different. So whatever works best for them is also valid.
… or you could pay approx $2.70 / month for real Debrid. Replace jellyfin with stremio + torrentio and your family can immediately stream whatever shows they want w/o asking you and without needing to wait for the torrent to download.
This would be my preferred option, but: I do applaud OP’s enthusiasm and dedication. He’s learnt a lot of things about it, whereas because of my setup (as you described) I know fuck all. Plus, having his sort of setup gives you your own library over time (should that be desired).
Has anyone read their privacy policy?
We may be required to disclose Users personal data in order to protect our legal rights or where disclosure of Users personal data’s are required of us by the judicial authorities only when legal procedures are followed.
Files links that Users download are stored in a database for legal concerns and our internal use. All saved links are erased within 1 month for security reasons and service needs. However all requests made on our site are stored for 1 year, the legal retention period.
I would prefer they had a no-logging policy. This sounds fishy af like a honeypot.
You have a valid point, and if your using this service to download dark web “illegal to possess” content (like CP) - then, yeah, you probably don’t want to use it.
However, if you “find” the random movie/tv-show: The copyright holders are usually chasing people who are distributing content (like you do with torrents) as opposed to the people who may accidentally consume the content. … but IANAL
I get it, thats a really low affordable price but i ain’t paying money to pirate more conveniently.
This same mentality kept me from Usenet for a decade or more but I’ll never look back now that I can see how much faster, more reliable, and more convenient it is. And it’s cheaper than even the cheapest ad-free streaming service but with way better quality and selection.
I see no reason to not use both. Got a show you’re watching that has new releases? Have Sonarr track it and auto download them as they release. Want to try a new show but not sure you’ll like it or just a single season? Debrid.
I will say, Jellyfin with Infuse on apple tv is rather easy to use for non technical people where they would struggle with stremio a little more.
Still a far cry from the early XBMC/Kodi days where you had to manually try like 20 sources before you could watch both options really are great
Convenience at the price of reliance on outside infrastructure.
Too relevant, given that uptobox shut down yesterday and alldebrid torrents don’t work right now
