One month ago I decided to give the 'Arrs a chance and, while there are issues and limits, i’am loving them.
But I have an issue: at home I have only internet access trough a 5G mobile network connection which means zero opportunity to have port forwarding or open ports at all. This rules out private torrent trackers (tried a couple, no luck in getting any ratio ofc). Public torrent trackers being basically shit, I decided to give Usenet a try, and two things happened:
- I started loving it!
- I discovered I have a 1tb/months full band with cap on my home connection. After that from 200mb/s I get dropped to 6mb/s this time, unlimited bandwidth.
I have a few suggestions first for newcomers: 'Arrs: start using them NOW. Also, they will help you organize your existing library, but be aware that doing a good job is not only mandatory but also time-consuming. Also, get JellyFin and it will play along with your organized (-- imean it) collection nicely. Make sure you set proper umask and group (media management/advanced settings for each arr app) do that the entire stack andbl jellyfin can write into your media collection: this will reduce issues with metadata sync a lot. Get bazarr working with subscene! And setup a nice nginx reverse proxy for the entire stack.
Some issues I ran into: Readarr really has issues with finding stuff and specially with audio books. Anybody could help me out here?
Lidarr seems always to go to torrent, which get stuck with no seeders for me. Is there music on Usenet?
Now to the last part: Usenet! That changed my entire game. As movies and TV series, I can literally find anything fast and saturated my 1tb plan in two days. I have newshosting and recently got eweka for less than 4€/month. Don’t get caught in the common lie of three months free: they always charge 15 month immediately so you cannot really test them out then cancel. As indexers I got NZBGeek and I am planning to seek out DrunkenSlug. Any suggestions here?
(I know newshosting and eweka are probably overlapping, getting both was a mistake, but a relatively cheap one)
One last question: audiobooks and music on Usenet: what is your experience?
One truly last question: any way to integrate soulseek (nicotine+) on the arr stack?
Thanks fellow sailors.
Any chance you could explain the nginx reverse proxy?
Look into Caddy instead if you just need something simple for outside access. All you need is a DynDNS service (duckdns is easy), a few lines worth of Caddy config to point that address to your internal ports, port forwarding 80 & 443 to the machine running Caddy, and you’re good to go. If you follow the documentation, you’ll be running in 10 minutes.
This will not work unless you can actually have a public IP and forward ports.
In my case I rent a vps (for the public IP) and setup an ssh tunnel to itn (for secure port forwarding) with socat to my internal nginx. Will write a specific post later on about all this.
How do you secure the public interface?
Nginx with with over https
So the hostname is public knowledge in cert transparency logs. Can anyone open the address and see the *arrs are installed?
Not unless they can also crack http auth and actually see the landing page.
I did check my newer posts
Much appreciated, looks like a great guide!
I will try to make a specific post one of these days…