I have bought my first proper home server and am setting up a full stack of media services om truenas scale after years of doing everything manually. In that regard I have set up jellyfin, sabnzbd and radarr, and the next step is to add jellyserr it seems. But then I stumble across prowlarr and cannot figure out if it is a contender to or a supplement to jellyserr. Can somebody tell me what the difference is, if I should use both if they are complementing each other or which you are using if they are competing?
Jellyseerr is the front end to download movies, the thing that get shown to you or your users, then it uses radarr and sonnarr to get movies and, radarr and sonnar then get the movie using torrent providers in prowlarr, then they send the torrent to qbittorrent or another bittorrent client.
Also, Jellyseerr is awesome when all of this is working perfectly!
theyre not contenders, they all work in unisson! even tho you can skip using Jellyseerr and get your movies on sonarr or radarr, but their UI is crap and confusing tbh…
zewm@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
They are two different programs. Prowlarr is an index manager and overserr/jellyserr are requesters.
Indexer pulls a listing of available files from as many indexing services as you add. 1337x, NZBgeek, etc.
Overserr is like a front end for your entire stack. You just tell it what you want media you want and it sends the requests to the stack to figure out.
Overserr talks to -> radar/sonarr talks to -> prowlarr talks to -> sabnzbd/qbit.