Captain’s Log
Field notes from wiring up the fleet — swaps, upgrades and hard-won lessons from the engine room of a self-hosted media server.
Recyclarr: The Quality Upgrade I Said No To
‹ Sometimes quantity really is a feature ›
Recyclarr auto-syncs the TRaSH Guides quality tuning into Sonarr and Radarr. It's genuinely clever — and I decided not to use it. Here's both halves.
Goodbye Transmission, Hello qBittorrent
‹ The download client that made me bring my own UI, and then made me leave ›
How Transmission 4.0 quietly killed the web UI, the linuxserver bring-your-own-UI dance that followed, and why I ended up on qBittorrent.
Goodbye Ombi, Hello Jellyseerr
‹ The request box gets a glow-up (and a new name, twice) ›
Ombi still works, but development stalled and it never spoke fluent Jellyfin. Jellyseerr does — so we switched. Then Jellyseerr became Seerr.
Getting Past Cloudflare: FlareSolverr & Byparr
‹ When your indexer hides behind a bouncer, you bring a bigger bouncer ›
Some torrent indexers sit behind Cloudflare and block Prowlarr outright. FlareSolverr solves the challenge for you — and Byparr is the drop-in alternative for when it can't.
Jellyfin on LG Smart TV
‹ Easy on webOS 6, not so much on pre 2021 TVs with webOS 5 or less. ›
For webOS 6, get it from the official LG Content Store. If not, get ready to become a webOS TV Developer!
Make Radarr/Sonarr UI Obsolete with integrations (Part 2)
‹ If lists are just not cutting it for you... Try adding more containers? ›
Some *Arr and other projects that can help you fill those hard disks without having to search for content yourself.
Make Radarr/Sonarr UI Obsolete with Lists
‹ If after all that it still sounds like work, try lists! ›
Update your movies/series collection automatically by following lists. Lists that are updated by either you, someone else or by an automated system.
So... What ARE these Arr's doing?
‹ Get notified whenever something happened that you are interested in ›
When it's the start of the new season of your favourite show, let the Arr's send you a little ping when it is ready for your viewing leisure....
Goodbye Jackett, Long Live Prowlarr!!
‹ Indexer Management: Ain't Nobody Got Time For That ›
Jackett was great but there were some issues, which Prowlarr addressed.
Home Media Server
‹ How to fill all the terabytes and get on the FBI most wanted list without ever leaving your sofa ›
How to setup your own media server using Linuxserver.io docker images.
Le Docker Compose
‹ Can it really be as easy as `docker-compose up` ›
Now that we have determined what our setup should look like, let's combine them in a single docker-compose file.
Container Management
‹ One dashboard to command the fleet — who remembers all those ports anyway ›
What was that url again?
Prebuilt Boxes
‹ Why create when you can borrow ›
Give in some control over your setup but gain a ready to go solution out of the box.
Alternatives
‹ Don't fancy the crew? Every one has a stand-in ›
Most projects can be swapped with any of these alternatives.
Out of scope
‹ A curated list of open-source projects for music, books and pictures ›
Other Linuxserver.io docker images for downloading, managing and streaming music, books, pictures and more.
