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What Is a Seedbox? A Complete Beginner’s Guide

This video covers the basics of seedboxes:

• what is a seedbox?

• what vendors are available?

• what should I look for in a seedbox?

• how do I choose what to put on my seedbox?

• do I need a VPN?

• where do I find more info about this topic?

• how does thi...

  2025-02-24 15:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post

It's *Captain* Jack Sparrow

Torrenting 101: Public vs Private Trackers Explained

This video explains all the basics about torrenting. I start with the basic "what is a torrent?" and move onto topics such as:

• popular trackers

• good general private trackers

• recommendations of other private trackers

• how to add trackers to prowlarr

• understanding ratio...

  2025-02-17 16:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Managing Your *arr Stack From Your Phone

This video demonstrates how to manage your arr stack from your phone. The app I cover in the most depth is nzb360, which was purpose-built to integrate with the arr stack. I also show progressive web apps (and how to install them), regular apps from the app store, as well as some other apps to manage things like Proxmox and Cloudflare.

To...

The Complete Guide to Jellyseerr

The video demonstrates how to configure Jellyseerr to communicate to Radarr and Sonarr to act as a front end to request movies and tv shows. I show how to do first time setup as well as configure notifications, language preference, and doing requests for both movies and shows and then deleting those requests.

This is all done within TrueN...

Making Series Packs Work With Sonarr

In this video I demonstrate how to import a series into Sonarr which is packaged as a series-pack in a single torrent. Sonarr can only recognize a single season within any torrent and does not play nice when a series pack is downloaded. This video shows how to correctly import (with hardlinks) all seasons in a series with no command line.

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How to Add Containers to a Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this video, I demonstrate how to add containers into our existing *arr stack to expand its functionality. I also show how to find more containers than are listed on the wiki to get some ideas.

wiki: https://wiki.serversatho.me/

ravencentric: 2025-02-05 01:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Complete Guide to Prowlarr: The Ultimate Indexer Manager Setup

This is the next video in my series for deploying and perfecting the *arr stack. I cover how to fully setup Prowlarr to best use its automation beyond just the basic indexers. I cover the topics of notifications, automated backup, advanced indexer settings, syncing with Radarr/Sonarr, and private vs public indexers.

This is all done within...

Mastering Sonarr & Recyclarr: A Step-by-Step Guide

This is the next video in my series for deploying and perfecting the *arr stack. I cover how to fully setup Sonarr to best use its automation beyond just the download client and root folder. I cover the topics of file naming, file management, permissions, quality profiles, custom formats, notifications, and automated backup.

Also included ...

Mastering Radarr & Recyclarr: A Step-by-Step Guide

This is the next video in my series for deploying and perfecting the *arr stack. I cover how to fully setup Radarr to best use its automation beyond just the download client and root folder. I cover the topics of file naming, file management, permissions, quality profiles, custom formats, notifications, and automated backup.

Also included...

TrueNAS Scale: Build an arr Stack with Dockge in One Easy Step

This video demonstrates deploying an *arr stack on TrueNAS Scale Electric Eel 24.10 using Dockge with a single docker compose file for the prowlarr, radarr, sonarr, jellyseerr, jellyfin, flaresolverr, and qbittorrent containers.

This video includes the specific instructions for the hotio qBit container using a VPN with a working example fr...

TrueNAS Scale + Tdarr: Efficient Media Transcoding

This video demonstrates how to install tdarr using dockge or the native apps catalog on TrueNAS Scale Electric Eel 24.10. I go over all the basic setup steps to configure tdarr to automatically transcode all h.264 content into h.265. I show the setup for the movies and tv directory.

Wiki instructions: 2025-01-26 22:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post

YouTube and I are not friends

Hi everyone. If you are a part of this channel, I want to thank you so much for subscribing or buying my content.

I started my journey by creating a wiki for my own services, then making that wiki public, and finally doing videos for pages on that wiki on YouTube.

The issue I had was YouTube would not let me publish videos for certai...