We’re excited to announce a major update: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are officially merging into a single team called Seerr. This unification marks an important step forward as we bring our efforts together under one banner.
For users, this means one shared codebase combining all existing Overseerr functionalities with the latest Jellyseerr features, along with Jellyfin and Emby support, allowing us to deliver updates more efficiently and keep the project moving forward.
Please check how to migrate to Seerr in our migration guide and stay tuned for more updates on the project!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAT Network Address Translation Plex Brand of media server package SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
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No idea what either of these were in the first place. Feels like it could have been worth a mention in the post.
I switched over last night, migration guide here, it’s really easy!
there goes the opportunity to call it Joeverseerr
I hate how so many of the arr apps don’t describe what they do in a way that people who don’t already know can understand.
Even the tutorials and guides are frustratingly vague.
Given it’s a suite of tools designed specifically to download copyrighted content, why are you surprised that descriptions are coy and elusive?
Is it for downloading illegal content? i can’t tell
I assume some of it is related to torrenting, but I can’t tell which ones and how much. They can’t all be for torrenting, right???
I’ll be honest, only the first setup gave me some trouble as I was tackling docker compose too. After you gain familiarity setting up a new arr is basically copying the provided yaml service then filling in the envs with yours
I hate how fragmented they are. I’ve given up on various guides out there for ‘setting up the arr stack’ because of getting bogged down in since miniature detail that, IMHO, shouldn’t even be a thing. I get that hosting seperate services has advantages. But the disadvantage of giving up on the whole thing because you have to sort out networking and file permission issues between the service that downloads video files over an hour long and the service that downloads video files under an hour outweighs those advantages.
Spoiler: I am deeply into the arr “ecosystem” and love the shit out of it.
I think I finally understand Linux fans. Yes it’s confusing for new people, but because I’m so into the weeds on this stuff I love how much choice I have. And if one of the projects doesn’t have what we want, someone makes a fork.
To point: you really only need Sonarr and Radarr. Get those set up and working how you like. I recommend the Trash Guides. Once that’s working how you like, get Prowlarr for easy management of your usenet and torrent indexers. Most people should stop there.
What problems did you have? I just put the services I wanted in a compose file, configured sonarr/radarr to use prowlarr and my torrent client and done.
Later I added lidarr and readarr but ended up removing the last one. I found it easy enough, and the modularity makes it easy to use only what you need.
Just in case you wanna try again with readarr, after all the little drama and the main app being unmaintained, there’s 2 forks which are maintained and work pretty well
- Faustvii/readarr simply fixes the app to keep running
- pennydreadful/bookshelf adds a choice of metadata provider, so you can use hardcover (instead of goodreads) for really good metadata
I’ve successfully been running bookshelf for a bit now, after the original stopped working for me completely.
You’re not alone. It’s super frustrating when things don’t work and you have to search through 4 apps to figure out what is wrong. This architecture makes the whole setup brittle.
Fortunately, there are all in one alternatives to the arr stack. I found a couple, but I think Cinephage is the most mature.
You said it’s the most mature, but it’s only about 2 months old and coded partially with AI.
I’m interested in this but paranoid about security, and don’t know how much I can trust something newish they also has some code the developer might not understand.
Oh thanks, I hadn’t even noticed that. I did some research into *arr alternatives a few weeks ago. I found 3 and this one looked like it had the most features. I will look up the other two contenders again then.
Let me know if you find what they are - I’m interested in a solution like this anyhow too.
the service that downloads video files over an hour long and the service that downloads video files under an hour
Huh. That sounds overly complicated. I just link everything with my torrent client. Tracker (prowlarr) into media managers (sonarr/radarr) into torrent client. That’s it.
I have jellyseer in there too but that’s a separate service that just works. The core stack is the other paragraph.
Everything is installed in my local server using the install script, no docker.
Ikr like… Give me a docker compose file and tell me what env vars need to be set to what. Why is it so complicated?
Either you misconfigured something or you are very new to this.
Keep it up.As for good guides: Trash-guides
They provide a very in depth set-up that works really well.The only thing you’ll need after this, is a source for the files.
Maybe thats by design. Some sort of gate keeping
Can this be used with i2p and anonymous torrenting?
This is a requesting client.
What you want is solved by torrenting (and other) clients.
But you connect it to a torrent client, right?
Sonarr/Radarr? Yes.
Not exactly. This is just a requesting frontend that can be accessed with either Plex/Jellyfin account or a custom one. Seer then has a contact with Radarr and Sonarr to automate their searches of media. Radarr and Sonarr is what is connected to a downloading client (either torrenting client, usenet or seedbox).
One can skip Seer and just use Radarr and Sonarr as is.
Moved from overseerr to jellyseerr. Now from jellyseerr to seerr.
I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.
Yea they announced it months ago, but the first release of seerr just dropped today.
I was checking just a few hours ago. Just in time, cool!
Ah right, that makes sense!
I don’t quite get what this is supposed to do. Is it basically a software to allow jellyfin/plex users to request media without needing a radarr/sonarr account?
Yes.
It’s a beautiful UI for requesting content where you don’t go into the details of arrs. Great if you have other family members you want to allow to request things.
Also great for finding trending content, ratings, trailers, and also all the work an actor/actress has done.
Basically yes. My father can log into Overseer with his Plex account, so no new account and password, and request movies or tv shows which I can approve manually or pre-approve. I don’t have to give him admin access to my Sonarr or Radarr and the user interface is quite friendly.
sonarr and radarr only have support for a single account wich among other things exposes api keys.
Seerr lets you have users with the same login as they use for jellyfin (or plex?) To request content and the server admin can approve or deny rhe request.
Good news!!
I’ve missed both projects. What were they? Are they like Jackett or Prowlarr?
The fact it recommends popular stuff is a useful addon feature, its a good way to look at what others are watching.
Media requester for Plex and Jellyfin. But also tells you where things are streaming. A mix between IMDB and JustWatch.
Overseer was for Plex
Jellyseer was for JellyfinNow we have Seer one platform to do both.
If you just host for yourself, you don’t gain that much by using Seerr, besides having a nicer UI and you have more search filters compared to Sonarr and Radarr.
However, if you have multiple users, you benefit a lot of it. Users, which have individual user accounts, can request media. Depending on the configuration, those requests have to be accepted manually, which gives you a way to still be in control of what ends up on your server. The user then gets notified about what has happened and if the media was downloaded.
I still prefer it as the only user so I don’t have to switch between Radarr and Sonarr. I also find the search to be much better than either of those
Me, too. I was just trying to be objectively neutral. Not every self-hoster is comfortable with maintaining another service, when there is no huge benefit to it. When I was still using Emby, I was happy with using IMDB plus Radarr/Sonarr.
Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.
Possibly the best foss UX I’ve ever used.
+ on this. Seer has better search than many popular movies/tv sites out there.
I also submit issues through there when I’m not in a position to resolve it immediately.
That was totally unexpected /s
That was one smooth transition! 🚀
No kidding! Copy and paste the contents of the previous container to a new directory for the new container, sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /path/to/new/directory, docker pull the new image, and Bob’s your uncle. I’m so relieved I didn’t have to reconfigure all the *arr integrations and whatnot within the web GUI all over again
yea that would have been a pain indeed! I feared that too, pleasantly surprised now 😁
I just changed my compose reference to update the volume and base image. Worked a treat.
The jellyseer android app automatically renamed itself to seer the first time I launched the app after upgrading my server. That was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
I was surprised to see emby mentioned. I thought they shot themselves so hard in their feet with the licensing changes back then that there was a reason that we only hear from jrllyfin these days.
Afaik Jellyfin and Emby use the same authentication so by adding Jellyfin support Emby automatically works too.
Jellyfin is a fork of emby (from when it went closed source), so that makes sense. They have diverged quite a bit but seems the Auth hasn’t changed enough.
You still see remnants in the logs.
You mean when they went closed source? I know Jellyfin is all open source but apparently rougher UX all round… and Emby is miles better than Plex, not least because Plex has a scalp-worthy cost and too many paywalled features. Jellyfin to me is a purist alternative - libre software is ideal but you start to get a much weaker product.
I wouldn’t say that Jellyfin is an inferior product nowadays, it is much better now, and has things Plex doesn’t have like easy free hardware transcoding
I main jellyfin. It lacks:
- default SSL
- Carrier grade nat relay.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
- fast search on large libraries.
I end up using it with tailscale, but that’s well out of reach for my friends and family who share my Plex stuff.
- default SSL
Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin settings
- Carrier grade nat relay.
Not the point of an open source server. That’s your issue.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
Why?? But anyway, Jellyfin can poll those for metadata
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
There is a plugin to do OpenID
- fast search on large libraries.
Can’t comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)
Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin setting
I didn’t say I could recreate Plex in my homelab. I said Jellyfin has short comings.
Not the point of an open source server. That’s your issue.
Moving the goal posts, The point of this exercise is to show how Jellyfin is a direct replacement for Plex. If you say that it is not, my points stand that it is lacking.
caching the TVDB and movie DB.
Every new user that moves from Plex to JF just hammers the fuck out of the free and open services. When one of those services has any issue at all, we’re collectively in bad shape. Plex has protection against this. It would be useful if we cached their stuff and threw it into a DHT, crowd refreshing it.
There is a plugin to do OpenID
This does not work for anything by pc clients. if you feed a roku, appletv, android TV, samsung television, visio… a 2FA prompt, it’ll tell you to get bent. THEN there’s the half assed fail2ban they made instead of surfacing the logs someplace that we could use real fail2ban, but now you have ME complaining that I can’t hack features into it where there’s no reason they’re not already there.
Can’t comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)
Their search sucks balls even for small libraries. They know it and they’ve been working on it for years. There are some crazy hacky solutions screwing with ports and moving traffic through elastic-cache. it’s extremely hacky.
In the end, I’m using Jellyfin as my own personal media server and the media server for my family in my house. It’s not as safely designed as Plex, which itself has had some security issues in the past, but they have a paid team for that, You can’t even hack all the features Plex has into your home lab, I could stick it behind cloudflare and get SSL, some proper anti hammer, anti-abuse, but then I’m selling my watch habbits to cloudflare.
I’m glad we have Jellyfin, I wish I had the skill and time to contribute, if they’d even PR a big-ass change like 2FA, last I heard they were standing on the “that might lead people to port forward it openly which would be less secure”, like people aren’t already doing that.
I’d LOVE to get rid of my Plex, it’s just no where near as capable for my remote users, I can’t force grandma to run tailscale.
Interesting takes. I see and understand your points now.
But regarding your CG-NAT situation:
Sorry but no. This is so much out of scope for the Jellyfin team.
This is something you need to solve by yourself.
Jellyfin can make it easy to maybe offer an integration but beyond that it’s IMO not within the general scope.
In a recent version they improved the database a lot and now search is much faster.
They also removed the SSL config stuff from the UI, using a reverse proxy is the correct way to do this.
I don’t know much about the *eerr stuff… Is there a good way to connect a debris service with that? I’m using Stremio+Torrention rn, but it’s crashing regularly or isn’t able to find magnet links.
