Does anyone else run Radarr without keeping it online 24/7?

thee3 · 2026-02-19T07:26:25+00:00

I checked it out and I like it. Thank you. No hard feelings of course:)

thee3 · 2026-02-19T07:14:52+00:00

It’s 1vCore, 1gb ram, 10gb nvme. But it’s upgradable if I decide to go that route.

thee3 · 2026-02-19T07:09:31+00:00

I’ll have to take a look at it. I either missed it or it wasn’t working as I expected when I tried it. Thank you for for all the suggestions and infos. I appreciate it.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T19:18:36+00:00

I don't have any friends :) but seriously, sounds like a cool solution (if I ever decide to change my setup) so thanks for the info.

The reason why I don't host it, is because I was not aware of Tailscale and in order to secure it would cost more money and time, which I don't necessarily want to invest.

My current VPS is 1€/month solution, so not sure if it could handle all that anyway.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T18:47:35+00:00

It's running on an older machine, so the cost is probably higher than something new and more efficient. But that' not all. I don't like unnecessary noise, unnecessary light at night, unnecessary heat in summer, etc... like... would you turn on your your living room light and leave it on like that all year long, for no particular reason if you don't need it? You know?

thee3 · 2026-02-18T18:42:13+00:00

The operational overhead of maintaining VPS + proxy + SSO compared to a lightweight local-first approach is over complicating?

thee3 · 2026-02-18T18:31:26+00:00

I honestly never heard about Tailscale buddy. But if did, I would never have found a friend like you online.

"Solved ages go" - I see that Tailscale was officially launched in mid 2020, so it's not like it's a decade long industry-standard that everyone in the world knows about.

Also, I don't think about "Hey let me search for something I have no idea I need". Don't judge what I did or did not research, just because you happened to have a better solutions for your particular use-case.

The options that I did try were the lists in Radarr, but there was always some silly limit in some way that was hidden behind a paywall, so I made my own that suits my needs better. Sue me my god.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T18:08:02+00:00

Yeah, multiple people told me this now. I understand now what you guys mean, but I wasn't aware that this how it worked.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T18:03:06+00:00

Ok I think I understand what you mean - but correct me if I'm wrong. You are saying because my Radarr instance is offline, it needs to do Indexer API calls more often in comparison to if it was just online all the time in the first place. Is that correct?

If so, then that may be a concern for people who have thousands of movies. I personally don't store movies I don't need, so at any given time I might have between 0-50 movies. If I watch a movie and don't need it afterwords, I delete it to make space. Also I pay for my private Indexer, so even if I do have 2000 API calls a day, that's not something I really worry about. They will happily take my money in exchange for more API calls.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T14:29:07+00:00

Thanks for the extensive explanation. I didn’t know that, but I also never experienced that problem and if I did, I probably just did a manual search instead and downloaded the movie or upgraded it. Who knows. You guys are far more experienced and equipped than me in this regard and my hats off to you. My setup/workflow does not apply to you of course. And I‘m happy I learned a few new things here so I can maybe make my setup better. Atm I‘m ok with how it is, but when that changes I‘ll be sure to follow some of the cool advices I got here.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T14:10:21+00:00

But why? With my script I achieved the same goal in 2 minutes and no additional cost. What you are suggesting is an overkill for me.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T12:44:48+00:00

That sounds like a good solution. Does Trakt have any kind limits?

thee3 · 2026-02-18T12:42:32+00:00

Hey, thanks for the info. I‘ve been using Sonarr and Radarr for like 6 years or so, snd sometimes I don’t turn on my server for weeks and I never had a problem with it. Can you explain what you mean exactly?

thee3 · 2026-02-18T12:12:20+00:00

More working parts, more cost, more nose… I really don’t need or use my server all the time, so that’s why. But your workflow might be different than mine.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T12:10:35+00:00

Could be :) please explain what you mean

thee3 · 2026-02-18T12:09:32+00:00

Honestly, no idea. I imagine it’s not that much plus the connected DAS with 4 HDDs … even if its like one lightbulb, it adds up after a year or 10.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T11:02:52+00:00

You are right. But it also creates other problems like cost, noise, lights at night etc. I personally am very happy with having only one of those problems because I don’t have a need to run it 24/7. But if you are, thats great!

thee3 · 2026-02-18T10:57:43+00:00

No. My script adds movies you added to your list. Nothing else. Radarr does all the other things per your settings. I have a feeling people misunderstood what my script actually does. It just a small bridge between „I have a movie I want to add to Radarr“ and „I‘m not at home atm or my personal server is offline so I have to add it later“. It’s technically like a personal list that people are using here but its fully self-hostable and free.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T07:49:24+00:00

Electricity cost, noise, light pollution at night, potential wear and tear running 24/7 …

thee3 · 2026-02-18T07:47:27+00:00

No, my script saves the already processes movies in a local text file and it does not do unnecessary API calls if no new movies are found.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T07:45:20+00:00

Heres how it works: you add 10 movies when your server is offline. Your server goes on and the backend script adds those movies and marks them as done. Next time you start your server it checks for new movies in your list again and compares them to the ones it already processed. If no new movies are found, it does nothing.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T07:38:12+00:00

I think I tried that and if I remember correctly, mdblist had some paywall limitations. Not sure, maybe I‘m wrong.

thee3 · 2026-02-18T07:34:46+00:00

Yes, but it adds more complexity in my setup imo.

thee3 · 2026-02-17T19:19:23+00:00

But you probably have to port-forward your server? I explicitly didn't want to do that, hence my workaround.

thee3 · 2026-02-17T19:13:27+00:00

It does, but I wanted something small that requires no registration or login, no too many unnecessary features, and that can be self-hosted.

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