The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking powered by Plex, Jellyfin, Adguard Home and Docker.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking.

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We will setup the following applications in this guide:

Docker

AdguardHome - Adblocker for all your devices

Jellyfin/Plex - For watching the content you download

Qbittorrent - Torrent downloader

Jackett - Torrent indexers provider

Flaresolverr - For auto solving captcha in some of the indexers

Sonarr - *arr service for automatically downloading TV shows

Radarr - *arr service for movies

Readarr - *arr service for (audio)books

lidarr - *arr service for music

Bazarr - Automatically downloads subtitles for Sonarr and Radarr

Ombi/Overseer - For requesting movies and tv shows through Sonarr and Radarr

Heimdall - Dashboard for all the services so you don’t need to remember all the ports

Once you are done, your dashboard will look something like this.

Heimdall Dashboard

I started building my setup after reading this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/ma1hlm/the_complete_guide_to_building_your_own_personal/.

Hardware

You don’t need powerful hardware to set this up. I use a decade old computer, with the following hardware. Raspberry pi works fine.

Hardware

Operating system

I will be using Ubuntu server in this guide. You can select whatever linux distro you prefer.

Download ubuntu server from https://ubuntu.com/download/server. Create a bootable USB drive using rufus or any other software(I prefer ventoy). Plug the usb on your computer, and select the usb drive from the boot menu and install ubuntu server. Follow the steps to install and configure ubuntu, and make sure to check “Install OpenSSH server”. Don’t install docker during the setup as the snap version is installed.

Once installation finishes you can now reboot and connect to your machine remotely using ssh.
ssh username@server-ip 
# username you selected during installation
# Type ip a to find out the ip address of your server. Will be present against device like **enp4s0** prefixed with 192.168.
Create the directories for audiobooks, books, movies, music and tv.

I keep all my media at ~/server/media. If you will be using multiple drives you can look up how to mount drives.

We will be using hardlinks so once the torrents are downloaded they are linked to media directory as well as torrents directory without using double storage space. Read up the trash-guides to have a better understanding.
mkdir ~/server
mkdir ~/server/media # Media directory
mkdir ~/server/torrents # Torrents

# Creating the directories for torrents
cd ~/server/torrents
mkdir audiobooks  books  incomplete  movies  music  tv 

cd ~/server/media
mkdir audiobooks  books  movies  music  tv
Installing docker and docker-compose

Docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
# install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    apt-transport-https \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release
# Add Docker’s official GPG key:
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
# Setup the repository
echo \
  "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
# Install Docker Engine
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
# Add user to the docker group to run docker commands without requiring root
sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami) 
Sign out by typing exit in the console and then ssh back in

Docker compose https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
# Download the current stable release of Docker Compose
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
# Apply executable permissions to the binary
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Creating the compose file for Adguard home

First setup Adguard home in a new compose file.

Docker compose uses a yml file. All of the files contain version and services object.

Create a directory for keeping the compose files.
mkdir ~/server/compose
mkdir ~/server/compose/adguard-home
vi ~/server/compose/adguard-home/docker-compose.yml
Save the following content to the docker-compose.yml file. You can see here what each port does.
version: '3.3'
services:
    run:
        container_name: adguardhome
        restart: unless-stopped
        volumes:
            - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/adguardhome/workdir:/opt/adguardhome/work'
            - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/adguardhome/confdir:/opt/adguardhome/conf'
        ports:
            - '53:53/tcp'
            - '53:53/udp'
            - '67:67/udp'
            - '68:68/udp'
            - '68:68/tcp'
            - '80:80/tcp'
            - '443:443/tcp'
            - '443:443/udp'
            - '3000:3000/tcp'
        image: adguard/adguardhome
Save the file and start the container using the following command.
docker-compose up -d
Open up the Adguard home setup on YOUR_SERVER_IP:3000.

Enable the default filter list from filters→DNS blocklist. You can then add custom filters.

Filters

Creating the compose file for media-server

Jackett

Jackett is where you define all your torrent indexers. All the *arr apps use the tornzab feed provided by jackett to search torrents.

There is now an *arr app called prowlarr that is meant to be the replacement for jackett. But the flaresolverr(used for auto solving captchas) support was added very recently and doesn’t work that well as compared to jackett, so I am still sticking with jackett for meantime. You can instead use prowlarr if none of your indexers use captcha.
jackett:
    container_name: jackett
    image: linuxserver/jackett
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/jackett:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/torrents:/downloads'
    ports:
      - '9117:9117'
    restart: unless-stopped
prowlarr:
		container_name: prowlarr
    image: 'hotio/prowlarr:testing'
    ports:
      - '9696:9696'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/prowlarr:/config'
    restart: unless-stopped
Sonarr - TV

Sonarr is a TV show scheduling and searching download program. It will take a list of shows you enjoy, search via Jackett, and add them to the qbittorrent downloads queue.
sonarr:
    container_name: sonarr
    image: linuxserver/sonarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    ports:
      - '8989:8989'
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/sonarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped
Radarr - Movies

Sonarr but for movies.
radarr:
    container_name: radarr
    image: linuxserver/radarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    ports:
      - '7878:7878'
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/radarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped
Lidarr - Music
lidarr:
    container_name: lidarr
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/lidarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/liadarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    ports:
      - '8686:8686'
    restart: unless-stopped
Readarr - Books and AudioBooks
# Notice the different port for the audiobook container
readarr:
    container_name: readarr
    image: 'hotio/readarr:nightly'
    ports:
      - '8787:8787'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/readarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped

readarr-audio-books:
    container_name: readarr-audio-books
    image: 'hotio/readarr:nightly'
    ports:
      - '8786:8787'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/readarr-audio-books:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    restart: unless-stopped
Bazarr - Subtitles
bazarr:
    container_name: bazarr
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/bazarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/bazarr:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server:/data'
    ports:
      - '6767:6767'
    restart: unless-stopped
Jellyfin

I personally only use jellyfin because it’s completely free. I still have plex installed because overseerr which is used to request movies and tv shows require plex. But that’s the only role plex has in my setup.

I will talk about the devices section later on.

For the media volume you only need to provide access to the /data/media directory instead of /data as jellyfin doesn’t need to know about the torrents.
jellyfin:
    container_name: jellyfin
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    ports:
      - '8096:8096'
    devices:
      - '/dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128'
      - '/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0'
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/jellyfin:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/media:/data/media'
    restart: unless-stopped

plex:
    container_name: plex
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex
    ports:
      - '32400:32400'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
      - VERSION=docker
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/plex:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/media:/data/media'
    devices:
      - '/dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128'
      - '/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0'
    restart: unless-stopped
Overseer/Ombi - Requesting Movies and TV shows

I use both. You can use ombi only if you don’t plan to install plex.
ombi:
    container_name: ombi
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/ombi
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/ombi:/config'
    ports:
      - '3579:3579'
    restart: unless-stopped

overseerr:
    container_name: overseerr
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/overseerr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/overseerr:/config'
    ports:
      - '5055:5055'
    restart: unless-stopped
Qbittorrent - Torrent downloader

I use qflood container. Flood provides a nice UI and this image automatically manages the connection between qbittorrent and flood.

Qbittorrent only needs access to torrent directory, and not the complete data directory.
qflood:
    container_name: qflood
    image: hotio/qflood
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
      - "3005:3000"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - UMASK=002
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
      - FLOOD_AUTH=false
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/qflood:/config'
      - '/home/${USER}/server/torrents:/data/torrents'
    restart: unless-stopped
Heimdall - Dashboard

There are multiple dashboard applications but I use Heimdall.
heimdall:
    container_name: heimdall
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/heimdall
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - '/home/${USER}/server/configs/heimdall:/config'
    ports:
      - 8090:80
    restart: unless-stopped
Flaresolverr - Solves cloudflare captcha

If your indexers use captcha, you will need flaresolverr for them.
flaresolverr:
    container_name: flaresolverr
    image: 'ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest'
    ports:
      - '8191:8191'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    restart: unless-stopped
Transcoding

As I mentioned in the jellyfin section there is a section in the conmpose file as “devices”. It is used for transcoding. If you don’t include that section, whenever transcoding happens it will only use CPU. In order to utilise your gpu the devices must be passed on to the container.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html Read up this guide to setup hardware acceleration for your gpu.

Generally, the devices are same for intel gpu transcoding.
devices:
      - '/dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128'
      - '/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0'
To monitor the gpu usage install intel-gpu-tools
sudo apt install intel-gpu-tools
Now, create a compose file for media server.
mkdir ~/server/compose/media-server
vi ~/server/compose/media-server/docker-compose.yml
And copy all the containers you want to use under services. Remember to add the version string just like adguard home compose file.

Configuring the docker stack

Start the containers using the same command we used to start the adguard home container.
docker-compose up -d
Jackett

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:9117

Add a few indexers to jackett using the “add indexer” button. You can see the indexers I use in the image below.

Indexers

Qbittorrent

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8080

The default username is admin and password adminadmin. You can change the user and password by going to Tools → Options → WebUI

Change “Default Save Path” in WebUI section to /data/torrents/ and “Keep incomplete torrents in” to /data/torrents/incomplete/

Create categories by right clicking on sidebar under category. Type category as TV and path as tv. Path needs to be same as the folder you created to store your media. Similarly for movies type Movies as category and path as movies. This will enable to automatically move the media to its correct folder.

Sonarr

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8989

Under “Download Clients” add qbittorrent. Enter the host as YOUR_SERVER_IP port as **8080,** and the username and password you used for qbittorrent. In category type TV (or whatever you selected as category name(not path) on qbittorent). Test the connection and then save.

Under indexers, for each indexer you added in Jackett

Click on add button

Select Torzab

Copy the tornzab feed for the indexer from jackett

Copy the api key from jackett

Select the categories you want

Test and save

Under general, define the root folder as /data/media/tv

Repeat this process for Radarr, Lidarr and readarr.

Use /data/media/movies as root for Radarr and so on.

The setup for ombi/overseerr is super simple. Just hit the url and follow the on screen instructions.

Bazarr

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:6767

Go to settings and then sonarr. Enter the host as YOUR_SERVER_IP port as 8989. Copy the api key from sonarr settings→general.

Similarly for radarr, enter the host as YOUR_SERVER_IP port as 7878. Copy the api key from radarr settings→general.

Jellyfin

Go to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8096

Add all the libraries by selecting content type and then giving a name for that library. Select the particular library location from /data/media. Repeat this for movies, tv, music, books and audiobooks.

Go to dashboard→playback, and enable transcoding by selecting as VAAPI and enter the device as /dev/dri/renderD128

Monitor GPU usage while playing content using
sudo intel_gpu_top
Heimdall

Navigate to YOUR_SERVER_IP:8090

Setup all the services you use so you don’t need to remember the ports like I showed in the first screenshot.

Updating docker images

With docker compose updates are very easy.

Navigate to the compose file directory ~/server/compose/media-server.

Then docker-compose pull to download the latest images.

And finally docker-compose up -d to use the latest images.

Remove old images by docker system prune -a

What’s next

You can setup VPN if torrents are blocked by your ISP/Country. I wanted to keep this guide simple and I don’t use VPN for my server, so I have left out the VPN part.

You can read about port forwarding to access your server over the internet.

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Wxfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I would recommend prowlarr instead of jackett for indexer management, and pihole as at least an additional blocking service but in reality it’s really all you need for use at home. I’d also strongly encourage use of a VPN on your *arr download services. I use a separate box to run Plex and then have my *arrs all running on their own VM inside if it to provide separation and allow be to more easily segregate the network traffic (as someone that doesn’t really know docker that well it “just works” for me. Also probably worth looking at how to store your media on an external target, it’s easy to quickly accumulate 10s of TBs of media and trying to store that all on the server locally is asking for trouble. Better to set everything up on a NAS to start.

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  pihole as at least an additional blocking service
  
  Why would you need PiHole? AdGuard Home is the same but with more features, for example it supports and uses DNS-over-HTTPS out of the box so your ISP can’t view and modify the DNS requests and responses.
  
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- LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - CustodialTeapot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Kind of a shit response to such a well written reply. Most of us would use this guide likely don’t already have any of this set up. Imagine spending so long setting this all up when there’s a good reply that can further improve on stuff before it’s in place.
    
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  - Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So for a beginners guide, your complaint with their suggestion is that it’s something non-beginners already know and as such shouldn’t be informed to beginners?
    
    I haven’t set up my home server yet although this sub has inspired me, I’m exactly the target market for this post and I find this suggestion informative.
    
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  - iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Don’t fear the down votes! Life is experience!
    
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  - BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Wow, you kiss your mother with that mouth?
    
    Double down on your childish insults… Sheesh
    
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ahto@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Since you only use Plex because of overseerr: There is a fork called Jellyseer that is compatible with Jellyfin. Haven’t tried it yet but it may be worth looking into.

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- BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m running jellyseerr and jellyfin and it’s running well. I find that it’s less headaches than Plex.
  
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  - gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s a brilliant combo, imho. Jellyseer is wonderfully done.
    
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Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m going to take this opportunity to plug nzb360 again for mobile management of most of this if you’re an Android user.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kevinfo…

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- Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Looks great, did you compare it to LunaSea? If yes, are there pos/cons? I can’t test because I’m on iOS right now, but would be nice to know
  
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- MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Is there something similar on fDroid?
  
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- morriscox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have Tailscale setup as the primary connection with my local SSID as secondary. Works great and the Pro version is worth it.
  
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Shepy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Great guide, two things though

I notice you mention Prowlarr, I’d probably suggest it and jackett - i ran both for a while then dropped Jackett as all my matches were coming through Prowlarr and its just less admin to add sources there once and have them add to the rest of the servarr apps

Also, you might want to look at www.audiobookshelf.org - A great plex like app for streaming audiobooks specifically

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters

NAS Network-Attached Storage

Plex Brand of media server package

VPN Virtual Private Network

[Thread #203 for this sub, first seen 9th Oct 2023, 12:25] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For AdGuard Home, I’d recommend running it on two servers so that your internet doesn’t break when one of the servers is down (eg for maintenance, upgrades, etc). It runs well on a Raspberry Pi. You can use AdGuardHome-Sync to keep the config in sync between the two servers.

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- Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  How do you get your DNS to point to the live one?
  
  In my experience, the router’s primary DNS server is not used first, then the secondary. Rather your device just sends half of the requests to each. If you run two and one is down, every second request fails. Unless you can run a load balancer, but then you’re back to a single point of failure.
  
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  - SciPiTie@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The client does a fallback if one dns doesn’t answer. That’s why dns ad blockers fail if 8.8.8.8 or some other dns is added as a secondary :)
    
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If one of them fails, the client falls back to the other one. That’s the main reason why you can configure two.
    
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yetanotheruser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Brilliant guide, thank you!

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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How is adguard vs PiHole? I’m running pihole now…worth changing for any reason?

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  AdGuard Home supports DNS over HTTPS and uses it by default (via Quad9). This encrypts your DNS requests and ensures your ISP can’t collect the queries or modify the responses. Some ISPs build an advertising profile for you based on the sites you visit, and using encrypted DNS prevents them from doing this.
  
  You can use DNS over HTTPS with PiHole but it’s a lot of manual work to set it up. With AdGuard Home, you just enter the DNS server URL in the web UI, and that’s it.
  
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  - RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thank you for the answer, I appreciate it.
    
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- wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’d also like to know this. Pi-hole has been pretty great.
  
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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For remote access I would recommend using Tailscale or the self-hosted equivalent Headscale.

It’s extremely easy to set up and much more secure than opening ports.

Here is the instructions to install and setup Tailscale tailscale.com/download/

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- deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  People suggest this all the time, but it’s only useful if you’re the only one who is going to be accessing your library externally. Otherwise you have to get family or friends who you let access your server to use it anytime they want to stream, and that’s far easier said than done. They have to know what they’re doing.
  
  It also means they can’t stream on their smart TVs or streaming boxes. You know, the things most people will want to watch this content on.
  
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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Or you could use ssh or a vpn
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Tailscale is a VPN.
    
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- Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Is Headscale comparable to NetBird?
  
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the_q@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thanks for taking the time to make this!

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dillydogg@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why not just use yams.media

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- db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  write a guide for it!
  
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lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Unsolicited plug for audiobookshelf- runs in a browser, supports multiple users, multiple libraries, and user-friendly, in active development too!

www.audiobookshelf.org/docs#intro

Separate instances of readarr for audio and text was a let-down for me. I just grab the torrent from MAM, and move it to the library folder from transmission remote. ABS picks it up when it’s finished. We don’t do THAT many books to make readarr worth it.

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original_reader@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Bookmarked, you superstar! 🌟

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Konraddo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I purchased my first NAS a few months ago and I had zero knowledge of self hosting and zero knowledge of Linux. I did manage to install all of these applications but, as suggested by tutorials I read, also installed Portainer because using docker in a command line method was just way too difficult. I’m quite sure I wouldn’t be able to set up anything without a GUI.

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Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Great guide, total newbies might want to look into something like CasaOS too just for simplicity’s sake.

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Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
Plex	Brand of media server package
VPN	Virtual Private Network