I think having distinctly separate utilities for each part of makes the whole thing work is better. But hey, what do I know? If only been running jellyfin + arr stack for 6 users without them ever complaining for over a year.
If you prefer paying a monthly bill instead of spending an afternoon configuring some services, you do you.
You grossly overestimate the number of people who are both willing and able to deploy, secure, manage, and maintain this kind of infrastructure. You may not find any value in offloading these responsibilities to a service provider operated by trained professionals, but your outright refusal to acknowledge that other people might is nothing short of callous.
Dude, my “infrastructure” is an old desktop pc with truenas and arr stack + jellyfin apps. I haven’t done anything more than update the apps every now and then for over a year. I think you’re exaggerating how much effort it actually requires. Not to mention that this is all for a setup that manages requesting, downloading and sorting the media as well.
If you just want to view what you already have, you can simply install jellyfin server in the pc where your videos are, point the libraries to the correct folder and that’s it. To use it simply download the app on your device. If you want to get fancy you can install a plugin to use as the subtitle provider. To use outside your house just install tailscale. Doing all of that would take like 2 hours, tops.
Oh and there’s nothing to secure if you don’t expose it to the internet directly.
If you want to be lazy and pay a subscription, go ahead. I don’t think it’s worth what they’re asking.
Someone doesn’t know how to configure bazarr…
Not having to configure a separate utility is part of the user-friendliness
I think having distinctly separate utilities for each part of makes the whole thing work is better. But hey, what do I know? If only been running jellyfin + arr stack for 6 users without them ever complaining for over a year.
If you prefer paying a monthly bill instead of spending an afternoon configuring some services, you do you.
You grossly overestimate the number of people who are both willing and able to deploy, secure, manage, and maintain this kind of infrastructure. You may not find any value in offloading these responsibilities to a service provider operated by trained professionals, but your outright refusal to acknowledge that other people might is nothing short of callous.
Dude, my “infrastructure” is an old desktop pc with truenas and arr stack + jellyfin apps. I haven’t done anything more than update the apps every now and then for over a year. I think you’re exaggerating how much effort it actually requires. Not to mention that this is all for a setup that manages requesting, downloading and sorting the media as well.
If you just want to view what you already have, you can simply install jellyfin server in the pc where your videos are, point the libraries to the correct folder and that’s it. To use it simply download the app on your device. If you want to get fancy you can install a plugin to use as the subtitle provider. To use outside your house just install tailscale. Doing all of that would take like 2 hours, tops.
Oh and there’s nothing to secure if you don’t expose it to the internet directly.
If you want to be lazy and pay a subscription, go ahead. I don’t think it’s worth what they’re asking.
Maybe someone doesn’t even use the arr stack.
Maybe they should.
Just to get subtitles in any language as nicely as with Plex? Get out.
I get subtitles for all the languages I want automatically so I don’t know if it works as “nicely” as plex, but it does work.
EDIT: Damn, you plex users are butthurt af xd