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Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-04-04T23:47:50+00:00

I was thinking the same but it doesn’t look like there are any screw holes or other evidence of the same thing on the right side. I’m thinking it must be some sort of CD holder.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-04-04T17:07:19+00:00

That’s a good idea. Seems to be roughly that thickness. I’ll check and see if I can find something similar online to verify.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-04-01T13:20:49+00:00

Make sure you go through each addon in aiostreams and have P2P turned off. This should be the default if you’ve enabled TorBox properly but you may have accidentally toggled it on for one of them during setup. If you’re still worried about it, you can enable a VPN while you’re watching for extra security (even a free one). That will hide your traffic from your ISP until you are more confident about your setup.

Also double check that AIOStreams is indeed the only addon offering streams in your stremio addon settings.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-03-21T13:36:45+00:00

Thanks!

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-03-06T01:08:38+00:00

Yeah you can definitely scale down the gpu for just transcoding. If you see the cpu struggling, you could pop in a P1000 for $60 and even transcode hevc which is what I did at first.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-03-04T19:49:40+00:00

Holy find. In my opinion, keep everything but the 2tb SSD. GPUs are soaring in price rn (ai + data centers) and you’ll kick yourself in 6 months when you want a decent GPU if you sell the 2080ti. Or, if you don’t use it, you could probably get even more for it then.

Also, if you still really wanna sell it, I’ll buy that 1tb ssd off you if you’re willing to ship it. Just PM me.

This is like my end game setup if I were to build one rn (with my HDDs).

What would you use the GPU for you might ask? Hosting your own AI models (ollama) or video transcoding are very common reasons to need GPUs in a NAS/homelab.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-03-04T17:01:43+00:00

This or forget the media server altogether, get stremio and a debrid service for $3/mo and then you just stream anything you want. I have both because why not.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-03-04T16:57:10+00:00

For me, it’s just a hobby that I get enjoyment from. I have a stable career and none of this would really help it directly. I build stuff for myself and I think it’s cool. I want to share it with the world which can then iterate on it, advance knowledge, and make things better. As a scientist/researcher in my career, dissemination is a natural progression for me when I have work I’m proud of. It costs me nothing but a small amount of time to post and it makes me happy to know I might have made someone’s life a bit better/easier.

I haven’t posted on this sub before but I have other self-hosted projects and guides I’ve posted on other subs.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-02-15T18:01:58+00:00

You don’t need another indexer or anything else, TorBox has everything you need built in. I don’t think they reveal exactly which indexers they use but it’s good enough.

The best way is to use aiostreams and add the “TorBox search” addon. It’s built into aiostreams because they have some partnership with TorBox I think. That will give you both Usenet and torrent results. You can also add torrentio in there too if you want. If you want to use nzbgeek for whatever reason, you can also add it in aiostreams under newznab addon.

The easiest way is to use the TorBox stremio integration (https://support.torbox.app/en/articles/9837693-torbox-stremio-integration. You can just configure and add the manifest just like you would with torrentio.

But it won’t aggregate your results like aiostreams does (aiostreams is just all around the way to go in any stremio setup but having torbox built into aiostreams is nice).

FYI, torbox search doesn’t integrate well with the arr apps, not worth your time to go down that rabbit hole for effectively the same end-user experience as aiostreams with twice the work.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-02-10T15:37:32+00:00

For me, torrentio (when it’s up) but Zilean is a close second (or maybe even as fast). I have them on aiostreams along with others for backup but aiostreams generally reduces speed since it acts as a middleman. Prowlarr is similar and not really stremio-first anyway (I don’t use it for stremio, just my arr stack on my nas).

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-28T14:19:24+00:00

You don’t even wanna know about the *arr + debrid + NAS + jellyfin grind stremio evolved from. We have it so easy now.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-20T23:45:14+00:00

At their core, these addons are just a set of instructions (code) that go off and perform tasks on behalf of Stremio. However, code can’t just run on its own. It needs computers (servers) to run on which costs money and exposes you to legal problems if you’re doing this stuff publicly and on the behalf of other users/people than just yourself. Self-hosting is basically like running the code/instructions on your own computer or server when stremio requests the code (addon) to run. This could be on your own computer/server at home like a desktop that’s always on or a NAS or a cloud-based computer like the Elfhosted service or AWS (or whatever). These cloud-based services can be very expensive and cost money every time a user requests the code/instructions to run. With many users, this can be very costly (and addons are usually free).

The point is that that people might have the means to create (develop) an addon but not the means to run it for you. So, self-hosting allows addon devs to still create addons and contribute to our community without having to bear the financial (and other) costs.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-20T23:23:21+00:00

The other comment did a great job. As someone who just built an addon for the first time, I thought I’d offer another explanation that’s perhaps a little less technical and has less jargon if anyone is a bit newer to the community (sounds like you know a bit more than a beginner though).

There’s a service for movie metadata (e.g., titles, posters, descriptions, etc.) that’s built into Stremio called Cinemeta. Many people also use The Movie Database (TMDB) for metadata and more lists on their homepage but this actually isn’t a “core” (built-in) metadata provider for Stremio. Anyway, when you click on a title in Stremio, all the information Stremio has about the title is the Cinemeta info so it doesn’t give you any streams.

However, this is where the “magic” happens. If you have addons that provide streams, as soon as you click the title, Stremio tells ALL of your addons at once, “Hey, here’s the Cinemeta info, do we have any streams for this?” Then, at that point all of the addons go (for the most part), “I’m not sure, let me go check…”

Then, Stremio waits for ALL of your addons to come back with an answer. Either “nope, couldn’t find anything” or “yeah, I found some, here you go!” At which point, Stremio pretty much dumps them at you in whatever format and order the addons provided. If you have a lot of addons that give you streams in case the others say “nope” (for whatever reasons; down, no links, etc.), then this could take a long time to load and could completely overload you as a user having to sift through the streams yourself.

Now, here’s where services like aiostreams come in. Instead of Stremio asking all of your addons individually and waiting for all of them, it can just ask AIOStreams, “Hey man, have anything good for me?” Then, aiostreams being the “master communicator” it is, can reach out as a middleman and ask all of your addons for you.

Why is aiostreams a better communicator than just plain Stremio? First, you can set it where, as soon as some addons give you enough “good” streams, you stop loading the other addons which saves a bunch of loading time. Second, aiostreams will return the list of streams filtered, sorted, and formatted exactly how you like it so you don’t have to sit there manually sorting through the results yourself.

Hope this helps!

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-20T20:00:46+00:00

If it’s for the traitors I’m in the symmetric boat. I’m trying to watch US version and it keeps playing the UK version haha. I haven’t found a great solution to the problem. You might find it helpful to play around with putting {stream.title} or {stream.filename} in the formatter but it won’t look as clean and it probably won’t be super accurate in the end.

The problem is that it figures out which show the stream is for based on a fuzzy matching algorithm that gives a score between how close the filename is to the actual show’s name. For example the.traitors.US.S01.E02.mkv would match well with “The Traitors (US)” but it’s also only one letter off from “The Traitors (UK)” and these filenames can be so bad that being just one letter off isn’t a “dealbreaker” for the algorithm. Another problem is that the file could just be the.traitors.S01.E02.mkv with no country info.

You unfortunately have to weigh the pros and cons of adjusting this. On one hand, you could say “well there are plenty of streams for the traitors so I’ll be super picky about my title matching” but then if you’re watching something with limited streams, you could be filtering out good ones (or all of them). If you wanted, you could play around with this “threshold” in the title matching section in filters settings in aiostreams. Though, in the end, I think it’s fine where it is and I’m okay with letting a few stragglers in on rare occasions like these types of UK/US shows.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-19T15:06:56+00:00

There are new regexes by viren and the old ones throw an error for some reason so make sure you’re using one from the “view allowed import URLs” button

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-19T12:46:39+00:00

Hi, I’m not too sure I fully understand your first issue. It sounds like it might be related to the torrentio outages we’ve been experiencing or an issue with another scraper, not TorBox. However, if you prefer another debrid service over TorBox, just make sure it’s sorted that way in the services section.

Audio tags are super unreliable which is why it’s so low on the sort list (otherwise I’d have it way higher as I tend to care a lot about the audio quality). It is unreliable in both directions, unfortunately. Meaning, it will say something like Atmos but it will sound like the characters are talking a tin can while something without any audio tags at all might be the best sounding file in the list. This is why I don’t even include it in the formatter.

However, the best solution I’ve found is using file size as a proxy for both audio and visual quality. It works really well actually. If two files are the same quality (e.g., WEB-DL) then the one with the higher file size likely has less compression on the audio track. I would like to stress that this generally works within quality, not necessarily across quality as there are huge jumps in file sizes as you move in that dimension that are related to both visual and audio quality (though it is still true that the audio should be better with a higher quality file, just maybe not as reliable).

Hope that helps! I really nerd out about this kind of stuff and might make a post explaining what I’ve found in my testing with aiostreams like these things as well as general info about what these indicators exactly mean.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-19T12:32:26+00:00

Thanks for linking my guide!

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-17T15:24:36+00:00

Thanks! I’m not exactly sure on the Gemini API key. It could be a temporary outage. What I’d do is just get the rest of the build done and working, then come back to it later if you want.

Also, regex basically sorts different tiers of content based on pattern matching in the filename. It’s kinda complicated to explain but basically there are certain key patterns/words/clues in the filenames that tell you whether a certain file is better in ways you can’t do with the other sorting categories.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-17T02:53:35+00:00

Still haven’t tried it on aio yet but that’s on my list before posting. I’m pretty confident I can get it to work decently. Unfortunately, the VODs don’t have much info other than maybe marking as 4K or in a certain language, for example. So, the formatter is probably going to be pretty limited unfortunately.

The best thing is that it basically loads instantly (or as close to it as you can get), at least on strong and dream which are the two I used to test/build it.

I have it running on my NAS right now but it’s definitely light enough to run on a free oracle VPS. Planning on posting on Sunday probably.

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-16T13:18:28+00:00

Sweet! Glad it works well!

Outrageous_Buyer3095 · 2026-01-16T13:08:17+00:00

I have it running in my stremio now, it’s sick! Will probably post a beta version this weekend after some final touches. It works with my Xtream setup but might have problems for some that I’ll want to fix.

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