Decomplicating my setup (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi. I am currently pirating on a dedicated server (Debian 12) running i2p, jellyfin, qBittorrent-nox, and a vpn. I tried mullvad for a bit but need to get air VPN set up now. My current setup to actually get content to jellyfin is this:

Try to find it on i2p, if there skip to step 4
SSH into server and turn on vpn + qBittorrent
Torrent Linux ISOs
SSH again and copy the file into jellyfin (really space inefficient, would love a solution to this in particular without shitloads of symlinks.)
Rename files to work with jellyfin
Login to jellyfin and refresh libraries
If Linux ISO not on i2p, cross seed

Obviously this sucks. I know *arr would help, but I don’t know how to set up a VPN to not interfere with jellyfin connections to outside of LAN.

How would you go about automating this? Do you think I am a complete idiot going about it all wrong? (I know I do) Have any of you found a solution to vpns interfering with jellyfin?

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[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

I have Plex, Radarr, Prowlarr, and Qbittorrent all installed on the same dedicated server. I'm using a SOCKS5 proxy instead of a VPN, it works great because I set up Qbittorrent to use the proxy and I just leave it running 24/7. I also have Tailscale installed for remote access, setup for that is dead simple.

Here's my workflow if I'm away from home:

Turn on Tailscale on my phone.
Open my radar app (it's called LunaSea).
Search for and add the movie I want.

That's it. If I'm already at home, step 1 is not necessary.

Prowlarr and Radarr find the movie on my registered indexers, at the desired quality, and send the torrent to Qbittorrent. Then when the download is finished they automatically rename the files and move them to my Plex library (and they could do the same with Jellyfin). Roughly 10 minutes after I finish step 3 (more or less depending on seeds), the movie magically appears in my Plex library. I don't have to turn a VPN on or off.

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can you elaborate on using a socks proxy? I assumed you would get an isp letter if you used one because people always recommended vpns.

Edit: also I don’t want to use tailscale or plex because proprietary. I’m not sure if it’s with mentioning because it looks like plex and plain router port forwarding will work for me.

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 3 points 1 year ago

Headscale is a self hosted version of tailscale, if you'd like to keep it as an option

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I remember that there is a FOSS option, I just don’t see the need for it. My main issues are not being able to run my clear web torrents all the time and having duplicate files. I think I just need to spend a five hours typing simple but slightly too complicated to automate commands in the terminal to fix this.

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 points 1 year ago

Everyones process is a little different but that sounds unnecessarily complicated. See my other comment about the arrs through docker. You could probably do it all in a single compose file.