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cRazi_man@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoThat is beyond the capabilities of normies.
My wife would agree with this:
And I’ve got Plex running on an always on NAS.
Cl1nk@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Lmao that greentext was literally me before I finally set up arrstack. One of the best investments of my time, it has definitely paid off over many years of just having things automatically download.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
My Arr’s are unreliable. The trackers they search keep becoming unavailable for some reason. Flaresolver doesn’t seem to work with my VPN setup. Sometimes the file it finds to download turns out to be 54GB for a 1080p movie and I can’t figure out what the hell is going on there either. I haven’t got the time to look into Usenet any time soon. If I try to deploy something and it doesn’t work 100% right off the bat then the “wife acceptance factor” drops to zero, so I’ve got to be damn certain before I start tinkering.
This comes off the back of a device on my network causing router issues and making Plex unreliable for a couple of weeks. By the time I diagnosed and fixed the issue, the damage was done and wife acceptance factor was lost.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Man that sucks. I must have gotten lucky or something with my setup. I also have trackers go unavailable all the time but I enabled 8 different ones and usually multiple will have the same torrent so it usually has no problem finding something even if 1 or 2 are down. I also don’t VPN tracker searches, just my BitTorrent client so flaresolverr seems to work fine for me (I only have it enabled for 2 of my trackers since most of the ones I use don’t seem to require it).
If you end up trying it out again I would look into the quality settings and make sure you’re not using the remux quality profile. By default most of the quality profiles seem to limit at 100MB/min, so a 2 hr movie shouldn’t allow anything over like 12GB. Whenever I tweak quality or custom formats I refer to trash guides which has a lot of battle-tested rules you can copy. I have my main profile set to only download qualities between hdtv720 and br1080 with custom formats set to prefer hevc with surround sound since I have 5.1.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Thanks. Really helps to know where to start looking when I get time over the weekend.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It seems like way more stuff than I want though
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I mean yeah, but it also depends on what you want. You don’t have to use the full automation. I started just by using it as a read-only way to see what movies I had and in what qualities and keep things organized. You can use it as a manual interface to do one-off downloads - basically just as an interface to search 5 torrent sites in 1 place. You can use it only to rename files to a consistent format. So there are a lot of ways to use the various features of sonarr/radarr besides automatic downloads. You’re not forced to go all-in and out of the box it doesn’t start automatically downloading until you enable that.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That was definitely my misconception