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Some background. I set up a Jellyfin server for my family to host TV shows and movies for them for free. I finally had enough of Xfinity and switched to T-Mobile 5G home internet, but in doing so, I lost the ability to control my network's port forwarding. I'm spending literally half the previous amount on internet and getting the same speeds, so I don't plan on going back.

What I do plan on doing is setting up a new server at my parent's house and running it on their network. Problem is that I'm 2 hours away. My plan is to use Qbit, jackett, and the arrs to automatically download torrents. Is there any way to automatically rename torrents to match Jellyfin's naming convention for organization and metadata downloads?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The arrs mostly support generating metadata usable by jellyfin/emby. You just need to go to settings on for example sonarr and there should be an option for metadata provider and jellyfin their. Whenever sonarr then imports an episode it'll add a nfo file containing everything jellyfin needs to process the episode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh wow, I had no idea that even was an option. I'm pretty excited to sink my teeth into the arrs. It's a little daunting having to set it up on a Linux server plus the networking, but still exciting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's super satisfying try set it up and watch it all just work once you get it going

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Renaming and metadata is default. Even though I just checked, I have disabled all metadata "providers" in arrs apps (not sure is this defaut?), but I have also set jellyfin library metadata to TheTVDB as first priority. It was working fine at default settings, but had a mess with season numbers of one show (dragon ball) before the change. Iirc arrs are using tvdb for metadata

Its maybe pain to set arrs, but once you get deeper in the setup it becomes much easier and its deffo worth

[–] xenspidey 10 points 9 months ago

Tailscale is the answer here in my opinion for remote accessing of the server.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This "you can't Forward your own ports" shit needs to be made illegal. It's cutting off your ability to run your own service and making everyone a passive consumer on the Internet if you aren't one of the big tech companies.

Is it a linux box, and if so would you be able to ssh into this box? You could rename them that way right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe when IPv6 is widely available, we'll stop seeing this... For now, it sucks, but IPv4 blocks are expensive. Price or external IPv4, something's gotta give.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

For the remote management, either a VPN to your parents network or exposing (e.g. Cloudflare Tunnel)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Install wireguard on server, profit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think I'll probably end up using SSH after connecting to the network through wireguard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you have a dedi/vps that can act as the wireguard "hop-point" (both your client and the media server connects to it) then you don't really need anything else.

Otherwise I would recommend tailscale.

[–] xenspidey 3 points 9 months ago

Just skip the rest and use tailscale

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I use wireguard in my case!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Is there any way to automatically rename torrents to match Jellyfin's naming convention for organization and metadata downloads?

Radarr can do this - I have this setup and working following the quick setup guide on a Linux box

https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/quick-start-guide#media-management

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If you're gonna use the arrs use sonarr. You can add shows, have it search for episodes as they come out integrating with jackett or prowlarr to find torrents and send to deluge or qbittorrent for downloads.

Sonarr can be set with preferred naming styles and rename things as they are added.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Not related to your question, but does the new internet connection support upnp? You could use that to open some ports if needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You have some options here. Your new internet doesn't mean you can't torrent from home. If you're using a VPN (you really should be) then your ISP port forwarding doesn't even matter. You just choose a VPN provider that offers port forwarding on their end, like Proton, and use that port for qbit. The only real advantage to setting up at your parent's place would be if their connection was faster or more stable.

As for the server, the arrs can handle everything. They have settings (off by default) to rename and tag all of your files, based on rules you define. It's pretty easy to set it up to fully automate all of that processing busywork, so you just request things and wait for them to show up in Jellyfin.