Tl;dr: I understand docker is supposed to help get things running on different systems easily, can someone give me a copy of their working Arr stack?

Frustrated venting I’m past being new to this server thing having run mine for over a year so I guess I can officially say I’m just bad at it. I’ve been working on getting Sonarr, Radarr, and, lidarr running since 4 in the afternoon, discounting dinner that’s 6 hours of constantly failing to get these to work. This is my 5th time trying since I learned about it in April.

I’ve given up on the automatic downloads, I’ve given up on the request system, I’m even done with the torrenting, I’ll just do that on my phone. All I want is something that format my 5TB of media to Title (date) instead of MOVIE_TITLE_ALL_UNDERSCORE, or TB_1000, or movie.videoformat.year.special.deluxe.username.host.visit.my.site.please. I was sold on this idea that self hosting was a relatively easy thing that anyone can get into and while I have a good understanding of how a config.yml is supposed to look and work, and I’ve got a decent understanding of ssh and sftp between two computers, but trying to grt any one of these things to run is soul crushing. I literally work in the foster system and my worst cases do not give me the stress this does. I just want to get it fixed so I can watch Pokemon with my family and offer it to people who will never bother to log on.

Edit: OMFG I moved them back into individual folders and they work now. 6 hours of videos and tutorials and not a single thing saying they absolutely have to be in their own folders or it won’t work. edit unclear, brain stuck in toaster

Edit 2: turns out, Radarr can’t find movies at /movies/movie.mkv and needs /movies/folder/movie.mkv. Now Radarr can import movies but all other problems persist.

  • Syndication@lemmy.todayEnglish
    14·
    8 hours ago

    I am really glad to read stuff like this. Not because I like seeing someone struggle, but rather it makes me feel less alone that I am not the only one getting frustrated with things that seemingly work perfectly for everyone else that I run into every error/obstacle in the book lol. If I post for help in online forums like Lemmy, the replies make me feel so stupid and sometimes the replies are even condescending, which is extremely demotivational at times and makes me not want to ever ask to get it fixed. But eventually I get there and say screw all that and keep on going till it works. I’m happy you posted this and got your problem fixed my friend.

    Also extremely relatable with the media server that friends and family refuse to use while paying like $30 a month on stupid subscriptions lmao

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Considering all of them are supposed to integrate with each other they’re relatively hard to integrate. I find it rather astounding they haven’t figured out service discovery.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      I get this feeling hard. You’re comment 3 out of 11 that I woke up to, comment one sent me to yet another guide to read and comment 2 congradulated me for getting it working. That’s on me for not classifying at midnight on a work night that the only thing I fixed was Radarr can now find the movies. Everything else is still broken.

      Everyone talks about docker being an easy way to share things around, I’d assume it’d be easier to zip a working installation and send it my way than to find a guide I haven’t read.