Jellyseerr: Let Your Family Request Movies Themselves
Give your whole household a Netflix-style page to browse and request titles — Jellyseerr passes each approved request straight to Radarr and Sonarr, hands-free.
The Self-Healing Arr Stack: Why My Watchlist Silently Stopped Downloading
A real homelab incident — rotated API keys silently killed my Arr automation for days with zero errors. Here's the debugging story and the four patterns that make media automation immune to it: runtime keys, one consolidated script, an auto-detecting VPN-leak check, and a dead-man's-switch alert.
Install Jellyfin on a NAS or Proxmox LXC
Set up the free, open-source Jellyfin media server on a NAS or in a Proxmox LXC container, run the first-time wizard, and build your first movie and TV libraries.
Plex vs Jellyfin: Which Media Server Should You Run?
A practical 2026 comparison of Plex and Jellyfin — pricing, remote access, hardware transcoding, apps, and privacy — to help you pick the right self-hosted media server.
Automating the Arr Stack: Import Lists, Quality Profiles, Media Server
Make the *arr stack hands-off — import lists that add titles automatically, quality profiles that grab the best release, and a notification that refreshes Plex or Jellyfin on import.
Deploy the Arr Stack with Docker Compose (Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr)
Stand up the full *arr stack in Docker Compose — Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, and a VPN-shielded download client — with the single-root folder layout that enables instant hardlink imports.
What Is the Arr Stack? Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr Explained
A plain-English guide to the *arr stack — what Sonarr, Radarr, and Prowlarr each do, how they fit together, and how the automated media pipeline actually works.
Plex Direct Play and Transcoding on Weak Hardware
Why Plex stutters on low-power CPUs, how Direct Play avoids transcoding entirely, and how to tune Plex so 4K files play smoothly without a beefy processor.
Organizing a Plex Library: Naming, Agents, and Metadata
Name movie and TV files so Plex matches them automatically, pick the right metadata agents, and fix wrong titles and broken sort order in an existing library.
Install Plex Media Server on a NAS or Proxmox LXC
Set up Plex Media Server on a NAS or in a Proxmox LXC container, claim it to your account, and build your first movie and TV libraries the right way.