What is the best TV/movie service I can set up for someone who is not tech savvy and wants something that just works? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ThatsMrCharlieToYou@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Happy to buy hardware if needed. Just trying to avoid large streaming services abhorrent business practices.

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[-] hadek@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I have the *arr apps running on my homeserver, i manage the backend but everything gets neatly dropped in jellyfin.

Gf is not tech savvy, is very happy about our "homemade netflix", reverse proxied it so she can watch at work too.

[-] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

You can even give the link for the *arr apps so your SO can add all the movies, tv shows and music they want. I saved them on her phone, in Firefox it's add to home screen. Chrome should be similar. Probably best to make it only accessible via LAN unless you have a good reason to need it outside of your home.

[-] Acid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

For my less tech savvy friends/family I just have a bot in Discord that can do requests to sonarr/radarr https://github.com/kiranshila/Doplarr

Other options can be using something like tailscale and giving them the web access to sonarr/radarr

[-] Princeofspace@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve found discord to be a bit of a barrier for the less tech savvy friends too. Overseerr has worked great though. Except now it’s too easy and my server has gone from meticulously curated sci-fi and horror and pretentious classic films to include all the big modern trash I don’t care to watch. Oh well.

[-] Acid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I’ve noticed my library has changed quite a bit and my storage needs are going to have to increase thanks to friends and family but is what it is.

I’ll look into overseer but seems like a lot more work than doplarr to setup