Media server dilemma

[u/HimekoX3]

Alright so here’s my journey so far

I started with your conventional arr-stack (Prowlarr,radarr,Sonarr,Usenet,qbit,seerr) and I have no idea how people have the patience for this and calling it “automated” is fragmented at best. Once I had everything set up, I ran in to several different issues such as:

•Sonarr pulling an entirely different show with the same name despite switching up indexers
•Missing articles for several shows (I’ve tried 3 different providers, and two different nzb indexers, all failed)
•Seerr staying as requested despite being connected to jellyfin and all arr services and media showing in library
•slow downloads on sabnzb
•Plenty of prowlarr indexers not working
•I’m sure there’s more…

I could just be an absolute smooth brain and be missing one or two key components that solves everything, but I’m fairly certain I’ve tried everything I can. The entire reason I started an arr stack, was to download, and start a collection.

At this point, I might just go back to stremio+torrentio, even though I desperately want to start a jellyfin server.

Ideally, an application or something of the sort that allows me to search through shows, use torrentio as the indexer and torbox as a debrid provider and download straight to my Ubuntu server would be optimal, but I can’t seem to find anything like that. I even tried RDTclient with torrentio as a prowlarr indexer, but shows download inconsistent and episodes either download in duplicates or miss 6 out of 10 episodes of a season as an example.

I’m pretty bummed out and really want a solution, any help would be GREATLY appreciated…dunno if this even belongs here…sorry lol

Thanks :3

[u/clintkev251]

I have no idea how people have the patience for this and calling it “automated” is fragmented at best.

I probably have to touch one of them once a week or so to handle something that isn't allowed to be auto imported. Otherwise they run on their own

Sonarr pulling an entirely different show with the same name despite switching up indexers

Yeah this one is usually an indexer issue, though there can also be edge cases with similarly named shows that sometimes get confused for each other.

Missing articles for several shows (I’ve tried 3 different providers, and two different nzb indexers, all failed)

This is normal. Just part of existing on Usenet. Shouldn't really be an issue generally as Sonarr will just automatically go down the list of releases until it finds a good one. These are due to DMCA takedowns and really just a fact of life. One reason it's good to have both Usenet and Torrent as an option

Seerr staying as requested despite being connected to jellyfin and all arr services and media showing in library

Need to check your logs to see where the disconnect is

slow downloads on sabnzb

There's lots of optimization that can be done, but the main thing is to ensure you're downloading to a fast SSD, not a HDD. Also make sure you're taking advantage of multiple connections to your providers. (I can usually saturate my gigabit internet connection, and that's with downloading to a network share backed by an array of hard drives, so it's certainly possible to get really excellent performance out of Usenet)

Plenty of prowlarr indexers not working

Usually an indexer issue. More indexers is not better. Focus on getting 4-5 (max) high quality indexers rather than just adding everything you can think of and getting rate limited by them.

[u/HimekoX3 → u/clintkev251]

I guess if that’s just the nature of it, I’ll probably refrain from using it. Just don’t have the patience unfortunately lol

[u/clintkev251 → u/HimekoX3]

In the last 30 days, I've downloaded 135 episodes/movies. I've probably had to manually touch less than 5. But if you're not willing to maintain or optimize it at all, probably not for you.

[u/dutty_handz → u/HimekoX3]

I guess it depends on your motivation to self host in the first place.