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!
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.
I hate how fragmented they are. I’ve given up on various guides out there for ‘setting up the arr stack’ because of getting bogged down in since miniature detail that, IMHO, shouldn’t even be a thing. I get that hosting seperate services has advantages. But the disadvantage of giving up on the whole thing because you have to sort out networking and file permission issues between the service that downloads video files over an hour long and the service that downloads video files under an hour outweighs those advantages.
Spoiler: I am deeply into the arr “ecosystem” and love the shit out of it.
I think I finally understand Linux fans. Yes it’s confusing for new people, but because I’m so into the weeds on this stuff I love how much choice I have. And if one of the projects doesn’t have what we want, someone makes a fork.
To point: you really only need Sonarr and Radarr. Get those set up and working how you like. I recommend the Trash Guides. Once that’s working how you like, get Prowlarr for easy management of your usenet and torrent indexers. Most people should stop there.
You’re not alone. It’s super frustrating when things don’t work and you have to search through 4 apps to figure out what is wrong. This architecture makes the whole setup brittle.
Fortunately, there are all in one alternatives to the arr stack. I found a couple, but I think Cinephage is the most mature.
You said it’s the most mature, but it’s only about 2 months old and coded partially with AI.
I’m interested in this but paranoid about security, and don’t know how much I can trust something newish they also has some code the developer might not understand.
Ikr like… Give me a docker compose file and tell me what env vars need to be set to what. Why is it so complicated?
the service that downloads video files over an hour long and the service that downloads video files under an hour
Huh. That sounds overly complicated. I just link everything with my torrent client. Tracker (prowlarr) into media managers (sonarr/radarr) into torrent client. That’s it.
I have jellyseer in there too but that’s a separate service that just works. The core stack is the other paragraph.
Everything is installed in my local server using the install script, no docker.
I think avoiding containers is the way I’m going to go on my next attempt. I’ll still have to put it in an lxc or a VM on my proxmox, but all in one will hopefully reduce some problems. The sonarr/radarr split was what I was referring to with the above or below an hour comment.
Either you misconfigured something or you are very new to this.
Keep it up.As for good guides: Trash-guides
They provide a very in depth set-up that works really well.The only thing you’ll need after this, is a source for the files.
What problems did you have? I just put the services I wanted in a compose file, configured sonarr/radarr to use prowlarr and my torrent client and done.
Later I added lidarr and readarr but ended up removing the last one. I found it easy enough, and the modularity makes it easy to use only what you need.
Just in case you wanna try again with readarr, after all the little drama and the main app being unmaintained, there’s 2 forks which are maintained and work pretty well
- Faustvii/readarr simply fixes the app to keep running
- pennydreadful/bookshelf adds a choice of metadata provider, so you can use hardcover (instead of goodreads) for really good metadata
I’ve successfully been running bookshelf for a bit now, after the original stopped working for me completely.
I’ll keep them in mind, but I stopped using readarr because the sonarr/radarr approach didn’t work for me for books. I read individual books more than subscribe to everything an author does, and manually downloading them is not really a problem.
Maybe thats by design. Some sort of gate keeping
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
Given it’s a suite of tools designed specifically to download copyrighted content, why are you surprised that descriptions are coy and elusive?
there goes the opportunity to call it Joeverseerr
I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.
Yea they announced it months ago, but the first release of seerr just dropped today.
Ah right, that makes sense!
I was checking just a few hours ago. Just in time, cool!
Good news!!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAT Network Address Translation Plex Brand of media server package SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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I’ve missed both projects. What were they? Are they like Jackett or Prowlarr?
Media requester for Plex and Jellyfin. But also tells you where things are streaming. A mix between IMDB and JustWatch.
Overseer was for Plex
Jellyseer was for JellyfinNow we have Seer one platform to do both.
If you just host for yourself, you don’t gain that much by using Seerr, besides having a nicer UI and you have more search filters compared to Sonarr and Radarr.
However, if you have multiple users, you benefit a lot of it. Users, which have individual user accounts, can request media. Depending on the configuration, those requests have to be accepted manually, which gives you a way to still be in control of what ends up on your server. The user then gets notified about what has happened and if the media was downloaded.
Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.
Possibly the best foss UX I’ve ever used.
+ on this. Seer has better search than many popular movies/tv sites out there.
I also submit issues through there when I’m not in a position to resolve it immediately.
I still prefer it as the only user so I don’t have to switch between Radarr and Sonarr. I also find the search to be much better than either of those
Me, too. I was just trying to be objectively neutral. Not every self-hoster is comfortable with maintaining another service, when there is no huge benefit to it. When I was still using Emby, I was happy with using IMDB plus Radarr/Sonarr.
The fact it recommends popular stuff is a useful addon feature, its a good way to look at what others are watching.
Can this be used with i2p and anonymous torrenting?
This is a requesting client.
What you want is solved by torrenting (and other) clients.
But you connect it to a torrent client, right?
Not exactly. This is just a requesting frontend that can be accessed with either Plex/Jellyfin account or a custom one. Seer then has a contact with Radarr and Sonarr to automate their searches of media. Radarr and Sonarr is what is connected to a downloading client (either torrenting client, usenet or seedbox).
One can skip Seer and just use Radarr and Sonarr as is.
Sonarr/Radarr? Yes.
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?
It’s a beautiful UI for requesting content where you don’t go into the details of arrs. Great if you have other family members you want to allow to request things.
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.
Yes.
Also great for finding trending content, ratings, trailers, and also all the work an actor/actress has done.
sonarr and radarr only have support for a single account wich among other things exposes api keys.
Seerr lets you have users with the same login as they use for jellyfin (or plex?) To request content and the server admin can approve or deny rhe request.
Moved from overseerr to jellyseerr. Now from jellyseerr to seerr.
That was one smooth transition! 🚀
No kidding! Copy and paste the contents of the previous container to a new directory for the new container, sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /path/to/new/directory, docker pull the new image, and Bob’s your uncle. I’m so relieved I didn’t have to reconfigure all the *arr integrations and whatnot within the web GUI all over again
yea that would have been a pain indeed! I feared that too, pleasantly surprised now 😁
I just changed my compose reference to update the volume and base image. Worked a treat.
The jellyseer android app automatically renamed itself to seer the first time I launched the app after upgrading my server. That was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
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.
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.
Afaik Jellyfin and Emby use the same authentication so by adding Jellyfin support Emby automatically works too.
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.
You still see remnants in the logs.
You mean when they went closed source? I know Jellyfin is all open source but apparently rougher UX all round… and Emby is miles better than Plex, not least because Plex has a scalp-worthy cost and too many paywalled features. Jellyfin to me is a purist alternative - libre software is ideal but you start to get a much weaker product.
I wouldn’t say that Jellyfin is an inferior product nowadays, it is much better now, and has things Plex doesn’t have like easy free hardware transcoding
That’s good to hear - I rely on HW transcoding for a couple situations and have heard from a couple Github issues that it’s not as good on Jellyfin - but that may not be the case now. Best thing I can probably do is set it up and see how it fares on my library!
I main jellyfin. It lacks:
- default SSL
- Carrier grade nat relay.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
- fast search on large libraries.
I end up using it with tailscale, but that’s well out of reach for my friends and family who share my Plex stuff.
- default SSL
Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin settings
- Carrier grade nat relay.
Not the point of an open source server. That’s your issue.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
Why?? But anyway, Jellyfin can poll those for metadata
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
There is a plugin to do OpenID
- fast search on large libraries.
Can’t comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)
That was totally unexpected /s
No idea what either of these were in the first place. Feels like it could have been worth a mention in the post.
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. :)
So you no longer need a Plex account to use overseer?
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.
