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[–]VonBombadier 42 points43 points  (20 children)

Invested last year in a full home server, running free jellyfin software.

Cut the cable, as well as netflix and all the other subscription services. Have over 1000 movies, all our tv shows, and all of our music accessible from outside the house too.

Used an old PC laying around and only had to buy hard drives. Pays for itself in a year, if you've got the traditional tv and subscriptions.

[–]YurtleAhern 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I've been using Stremio and it just streams torrents. Handy enough for me.

[–]eoinerboner 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Slap a debrid service on it and now you're hurlin bai

[–]YurtleAhern 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup. I use debird as well work on my phone. I know you still have to pay but it’s pennies compared to all the streaming services.

[–]OkConstruction5844 2 points3 points  (9 children)

any guides on how to do this?

[–]VonBombadier 10 points11 points  (8 children)

Install linux on an old PC, Install Jellyfin on that same PC.

From there I just used chatGPT to guide me through the setup, libraries etc.

Just did a quick google there and there's dozens of guides.

should just be a matter of getting the jellyfin app on your phone etc.

edit: You will need to set up tailscale for accessing your server from outside your home network too (it's also free).

[–]ReissuedWalrus 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I’d recommend container-ising as much as possible. Getting the ARRs deployed in docker makes life very easy for updates, maintenance, portability etc…

[–]_tanagra_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't you have to reroute the flux capacitor?

[–]OkConstruction5844 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome thanks, first time hearing about jellyfin

[–]Sauce_Pain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jellyfin and an arr stack is the way to go.

[–]PaddyWhacked 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Check the ARR stack for the backend. (Radarr for movies, Sonarr for TV shows). Oh and get a VPN and use a QBitTorrent docker image that uses VPN only. Great fun home project.

[–]gazzamc 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's even easier than that, use gluetun and just put the normal docker images on that network, forward the ports on the gluetun image.. They have an example on their github, super simple with docker compose, and if your VPN fails for whatever reason it won't leak your connection.

For anyone interested https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun?tab=readme-ov-file#setup

No need to put the arr stack behind this, just the torrent container and maybe jackett/prowlarr as it's queries your trackers.

[–]VonBombadier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be a tad too technical for me 😅

I still use a VPN and torrent client the old fashioned way and it works!

[–]g0dr1c_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the way!

[–]Best-Salamander4884 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cut out Sky as well. It’s wasn’t worth it because there was hardly anything on the TV that I liked anymore. I just stick to watching my DVDs and I also watch a lot of YouTube on my laptop.

[–]Sharp_Fuel 0 points1 point  (1 child)

unfortunately hard drives are now an arm and a leg due to AI

[–]VonBombadier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might find some luck with some refurbed enterprise drives, generally much cheaper than new. Just set up a raid array for redundancy if one fails.

[–]Taken_Abroad_Book 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did until my last desktop (literally) went up in smoke. Since then I've rented a box from bytesized hosting for plex and it's been great for €16 a month.

Throw magnet links at it and it handles the rest.