Sonarr is a tool for automating and managing your TV library. Jackett is a tool that Sonarr and Radarr use to search indexers and trackers for torrents Transmission also lets you easily run bash scripts whenever a torrent finishes which is huge. I used to use Deluge but honestly found it pretty buggy and unreliable. There are a few alternatives, but I chose Plex here because they have a client available on nearly every platform. Plex is a 'client-server media player system'. Everything for each of these services will live in the container except the configuration files which will live on our host. There will be a section describing the installation and configuration for each one of these :)ĭocker lets us run and isolate each of our services into a container. You can follow along, but when I start talking about mounting hard drives and writing bash scripts you may have to figure stuff out on your own! Table of Contents I. While all of the services we install will be running in Docker, this setup expects you are using Ubuntu 18.04.

My goal here is to document as much of it as possible, and be as available as I can in the comments here so I can help out anyone else starting their home server adventure!īy the end of this guide, you will have a server that lets you access your media wherever you want, automatically grabs movies and tv shows when they are requested via a web UI and is optimized for seeding. A couple of weeks later I realized this wasn't just a project, it was a full-blown hobby.Īfter a ton of trial and error and a couple of hard drive wipes later, I've finally achieved a setup that I am truly happy with.

A few months ago my dad gave me a spare computer and after a bit of research I set out on creating a home media server.

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