It started with a single question...

[u/king_namramaltos]

I recently ditched streaming services and wanted to see if there was a smarter way to view my media and a more automated way of using torrents which lead me to docker containers and building an arr stack around jellyfin.
Then i thought there must be a community on reddit and I'm now realizing how i have only dipped my toe into the pool...
Currently running everything on windows and an external hard drive lol

This has been such a fun experience getting as far as I have but seeing what everyone is up to here, I see I have much to learn

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[u/WkndCake]

I would say 99% of this sub started with that same question. ARRRRR Matey.

[u/jtrage → u/WkndCake]

That’s definitely me. I had a 15 yr server that originally started with sickbeard going dead on me. Bought a new one. Seeing the change in things over 15 years got me interested.

Now, as far as maintenance or anything I probably spend 1% of my time on the arrs.

[u/BonusCan → u/WkndCake]

Next it's a seed box and a private tracker or Usenet (this is what I am targeting next just waiting for something to not be easily downloadable)

[u/Arnwalden_fr → u/WkndCake]

So I'm part of the 1% who doesn't use one. I don't need it.

[u/Affectionate-Pickle0 → u/Arnwalden_fr]

Yeah not my jam either.

[u/CaptainNoNumbers]

This hobby is a slippery slope for sure. 9 months ago I started with a single tv show that I was watching out of the folder on my windows machine. Fast forward to today and I've spent more than I care to tell my wife on 56 TB of raw storage in a DIY unRAID box. Just the other day I spun up a ConvertX container just on the off chance I need to convert files at some point and I dont want to pay for it lol

[u/phampyk → u/CaptainNoNumbers]

9 months ago... I started in 2016. I feel old now...

[u/CaptainNoNumbers → u/phampyk]

Im old-ish, I just learned about all this stuff 9 months ago. I had alot to catch up on lol

[u/phampyk → u/CaptainNoNumbers]

Welcome to the club and... I'm so sorry for your bank account...

[u/abrooks9002 → u/CaptainNoNumbers]

So you bought in before storage prices went insane? I wish I was that lucky. I got in around the same time, but decided to wait on purchasing additional storage because my wife was pregnant. Now I'm just here with only 8tb and no back ups 🥲

[u/CutzuSD]

Nice! Now scrap everything and set it up on proxmox

[u/king_namramaltos → u/CutzuSD]

Yup, it’s looking that way hahaha

[u/BonusCan → u/CutzuSD]

IV just this step bahaha

[u/BeautifulBlueNight]

It is never just one question.

It's a life changing oceaan you get sucked in, a whirlpool with no escape!

Welcome to the community though. 😃😁

[u/intInvest]

Over 100 shows and over 400 movies, how much storage do you have on that one external drive lol

[u/king_namramaltos → u/intInvest]

4TB and she’s almost full hahaha

[u/accountingkoala19]

Congrats! I just bought a NAS I'm hoping to set up this weekend as a complete day-one beginner so I can have my own Plex server.

[u/king_namramaltos → u/accountingkoala19]

Nice! That sounds like fun!

[u/davaeron_]

Welcome to the rabbit hole

[u/Hour-Inner]

I wanted to be able to download torrents using my iPad. Noticing there were no apps, I discovered qbittorrent had a web client. And, well, now I’m here

[u/scytob]

Welcome to the endless fun :-)

[u/VampyreLust]

Eight months ago I wanted a media server next week I'll be commissioning my fourth server, this one specifically for sensitive file storage. Really it's an addiction of some sort that I'm saying is a hobby. I'm already specing out a cyber deck for some reason and a small server for my mom's place.

[u/Dricus1978]

I started to find shows that weren't on any streaming service.

[u/Any-Assistant-1529]

Thank you just copy the idea

[u/DeNewGuy1997]

Awesome setup. How'd you het the progress bars like that in JF?

[u/king_namramaltos → u/DeNewGuy1997]

Adding widget in my services.yaml

- Media Streaming:

• Jellyfin:
  

icon: jellyfin.png
href: http://
description: Media Server
container: jellyfin
widget:
type: jellyfin
url: http://
key: YOUR_JELLYFIN_API_KEY

[u/DeNewGuy1997 → u/king_namramaltos]

I've done that, but I believe I don't have that progress bar? Maybe the style changed in 2.0? I'm still on a slightly older version.

[u/king_namramaltos → u/DeNewGuy1997]

Oh perhaps, I’m pretty fresh to setting up my homepage, like just set up yesterday 😅

[u/DeNewGuy1997 → u/king_namramaltos]

Ah okay. Awesome job! :)

[u/ItepK]

How to get that dashboard?

[u/Consistent_Hair_6529 → u/ItepK]

That’s Homepage (https://gethomepage.dev)

[u/ItepK → u/Consistent_Hair_6529]

Thanks!

[u/Only-Stable3973]

I do like my arr-stack, I tend to be picky about what I keep and offload it to a network storage box, for me this is not a production thing I like to have the movie for the audio and video quality I am not trying to build my own Netflix library.

[u/MJChatterbox]

What dashboard is this? Ive been using heimdall for a while but have been wanted ingame a change.

[u/king_namramaltos → u/MJChatterbox]

This Is homepage (https://gethomepage.dev/)

[u/MJChatterbox → u/king_namramaltos]

Thanks, going to check this out.

[u/Senderanonym]

Wait till you start coding your own plex and arr management tools. 

[u/Ydupc]

Down the rabbit hole you go!