I have a Plex server running on Mac OSX. Whenever I want to add media, I remotely connect into the Mac, login to my private tracker, download the torrent, wait for it to finish, then update my Plex library.
I’m hopeful that there’s an easier way. I’m imagining a way I can remotely tell the Plex server what I want to watch and it takes it from there. Does such a thing exist?
Switch to Jellyfin. Plex doesn’t need to know that you yanked some MP4s. And also, set up the *arr stack.
Jellyfin and Linux folks can’t help but tell people to switch to their service regardless if anyone was asking. Obnoxious userbases.
OP is asking for help with Plex. It has nothing to do with Jellyfin. Go away.
Hey let me just say that jellyfin is shit. It’s shit and it sucks ass. Thanks 👍
I’ve never used Plex. I’m curious what issues you’ve had with jellyfin that makes you say this. I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with it, along with a friend who’s been using it a lot
It’s a hammer in search of nails. If you don’t want transcoding it simply doesn’t work. It’s nice that it exists and works for some people, but I despise ‘solutions’ that have no reason to exist except the devs needing an excuse to do thins they like. If jellyfin had a normal, regular, honest and simple option to just turn off transcoding I’d probably switch to it (even if the library scan process takes days instead of seconds). I don’t want to transcode anything ever, I use things in my lan, my devices can play all of the formats in my librabry - this is like archiving and unpacking every single file I move around on my pc.
Now plex is not opensource freeware nice things - it does what I tell it to do. That’s about it
I see what you’re saying. I don’t really mind doing the transcoding but I’d never looked to turn it off. Maybe it’ll be a feature added at some point.
You may disagree but I’m of the opinion that making an open source version of an app is enough of a reason to warrant it’s creation but to each their own of course. Thanks for sharing your input.
You can already disable transcoding, and it doesn’t transcode at all anyway if your device can handle the format. The person you responded to is just an idiot.
If your client device supports the format the media is in, Jellyfin doesn’t transcode it. You can also disable transcoding entirely, if the user doesn’t want it.
Library scans also take just a couple seconds, and that’s on the old 2016 quad core desktop I nabbed out of the trash at my workplace. If yours was taking longer, it indicates an issue with your PC.
What other bits of misinformation do you have to share?
No. If yours ask for help, then people are going to give it, and there’s no reason for them to avoid giving their own opinions on what’s better. If yours don’t like it, don’t ask for help.
Go away.
Lol what help was provided? It was just Jellyfin spam that had nothing to do with what OP had asked.
If you just replaced Jellyfin with some obnoxious VPN voucher in that comment it would be obviously spam but because its something you like you can’t seem to see it.
If OP had been asking about Jellyfin and someone thought it was “helpful” to suggest they switch to Plex I would of said the same thing.
I’m going to keep pushing Jellyfin over Plex anytime someone posts something that mentions it, as it is the obviously superior choice. I don’t care if you disagree.
You have two choices. Block me and ignore it, or fuck off. I don’t care which you choose, because I’ll quickly forget you even exist unless you bother replying, but you don’t have any power to make me do otherwise. So you might as well save yourself the trouble.
Corpo bootlicking scum.
Jellyfin is wack shit lol
It’s a good start but feature wise it has a LONG way to go.
Jellyfin users are as bad as vegans. No one fucking cares lol
For not caring, you obviously felt the need to write a comment. Just can’t get Jellyfin out of your mind, huh?
More like Plex lives like a boogieman rent free in the heads of jellyfin users to where if someone so much as asks a question about Plex, jellyfin users just have to come and shit all over the thread.
Come back and do that shit when the product is actually better. It isn’t even feature parity yet.
Jellyfin has every feature Ples does, and more, since those features are free.
Oh boyo! You can have literally everything automated. All you’d need to do is search a movie or show and click request and then bam it will appear on plex.
How?
Arr stack (as everyone is commenting here with)
Prowlarr (to pick your torrent indexers), sonarr (for shows), radarr (for movies) and overseerr for requests (this one’s optional but it’s so nice).
Add API codes from your sonarr and your radarr into prowlarr (and overseerr if you go with it) and add your qbittorrent web ui server to all of them.
I port forwarded overseerr so that it can be accessible by web and made a web app to it on my wife’s phone. Now while she’s bored at work she can scroll through recent releases on all streaming sites in overseerr and pick what she likes and click “request”. The requests get automatically approved and my prowlarr starts searching and sends the download to sonarr or radarr, which automatically moves everything into their right folders into my plex library.
I come home and open plex and bam my new releases are there, ready to be watched.
Idk if you knew this, but LunaSea can add things to Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr from both Android and iOS using the APIs for the Servarr apps. You can also send notifications to your phone via LunaSea if one of your Docker containers goes down using Uptime Kuma.
You need the Servarr apps. Sonarr for TV shows, Radarr for movies, and Prowlarr to handle search indexers or trackers. Bazarr for subtitles, if you watch international shows or anime. The apps are available as docker containers. Not all of them can be installed as standalone apps. Pipe the media into directories for a Jellyfin server to stream them, since Plex is corpo shit.
You can use LunaSea on Android or iOS to add shows from your mobile. You can also install Jellyseerr if you want an app to help you discover media. If you want music or ebooks/audiobooks, there are Servarr apps for that too.
