Self-host an automated Jellyfin media streaming stack

Posted Jan 25, 2024 Updated Jan 31, 2024

By Andrade FS 7 min read

DISCLAIMER: This article serves educational purposes only.

Requirements

Basic Linux knowledge
A Linux server (I recommend at least 4GB of RAM, but it works with 2GB)
- I am going to use a Debian 12 buster.
Enough storage to store your media

Media Stack

Jellyfin - streams media from the server to different clients.
Sonarr - manages TV shows (and anime) and sends requests to Jackett.
Radarr - manages movies and sends requests to Jackett.
Jackett - parses results coming from Radarr and Sonarr and finds available torrents for such media.
- We can use prowlarr instead of jackett, but I didn’t find much about indexers in other languages.
Transmission - torrent client to download media.
- We can use any other torrent client like qBittorrent, etc…
Jellyseerr - webapp for users to discover and request movies and TV shows.
Build on docker: Guide

Installations

Oficial Documentations:

JellyFin
Radarr
Sonarr
JellySeer
JellyFin

EIn terminal we execute:

curl https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

Once installed we will have access via web (http://ip-machine:8096)
Create an account
We are going to configure the paths where jellyfin will take the movies, series, etc… we need to create them in the O.S. and then we follow jellyfin’s steps.
1 2 3 mkdir /media/movies mkdir /media/anime mkdir /media/tvshows

I create 3 libraries ( movies, anime, shows )
Set our preferred metadata Language
If we want to access from another network, we select “allow remote…”, if we are going to see it from localhost, we deselect it.

And.., that´s done!

Now, you can select your jellyfIn server, and login it.

Transmission

In terminal we execute:

  
sudo apt install transmission-cli transmission-daemon
sudo systemctl restart transmission-daemon
sudo systemctl enable transmission-daemon

With this, we will have streaming available in the web panel http://ip-maquina:9091/ but first we need to configure a couple of things:
- We stop the service
  1 sudo systemctl stop transmission-daemon
- Edit the configuration file

sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Add networks to the whitelist, in my case:

Change user and password for better security:
We raise the service again, we will see an alert to log in:
1 sudo systemctl start transmission-daemon

Jackett

  
adduser jackett

cd /opt && f=Jackett.Binaries.LinuxAMDx64.tar.gz && release=$(wget -q https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/latest -O - | grep "title>Release" | cut -d " " -f 4) && sudo wget -Nc https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/download/$release/"$f" && sudo tar -xzf "$f" && sudo rm -f "$f" && cd Jackett*

chown jackett:jackett -R "/opt/Jackett"

sudo ./install_service_systemd.sh && systemctl status jackett.service && cd - && echo -e "\nVisit http://127.0.0.1:9117"

With this we will be able to see in our browser from http://ip-machine:9117:

Add as many indexers as you want:

Radarr

  
sudo groupadd media && sudo adduser radarr --ingroup media

We install requirements:

sudo apt install curl sqlite3

Download the correct binaries for your architecture.
- You can determine your architecture with
- dpkg --print-architecture
  - AMD64 use arch=x64
  - ARM, armf, and armh use arch=arm
  - ARM64 use arch=arm64

wget --content-disposition 'http://radarr.servarr.com/v1/update/master/updatefile?os=linux&runtime=netcore&arch=x64'

Uncompress the files:
1 tar -xvzf Radarr*.linux*.tar.gz
Move the files to /opt/

sudo mv Radarr /opt/

Ensure ownership of the binary directory.

sudo chown radarr:media -R /opt/Radarr

Configure systemd so Radarr can autostart at boot.

  
cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/radarr.service > /dev/null
	[Unit]
	Description=Radarr Daemon
	After=syslog.target network.target
	[Service]
	User=radarr
	Group=media
	Type=simple

	ExecStart=/opt/Radarr/Radarr -nobrowser -data=/var/lib/radarr/
	TimeoutStopSec=20
	KillMode=process
	Restart=on-failure
	[Install]
	WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Nos aseguramos que /var/lib/radarr, exista y el usuario radarr tenga permisos dentro, si no es así lo creamos a mano con mkdir y chwon.

Reload systemd

sudo systemctl -q daemon-reload

Enable the radarr Service

  
sudo systemctl enable --now -q radarr

[Optional] Remove the .tar:

  
	rm Radarr*.linux*.tar.gz

Browse to http://ip-machine:7878 to start using Radarr.

If Radarr did not appear to start, then check the status of the service:
1 sudo journalctl --since today -u radarr

Sonarr

  
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 2009837CBFFD68F45BC180471F4F90DE2A9B4BF8

echo "deb https://apt.sonarr.tv/debian buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sonarr.list

sudo apt update

During the installation, you will be asked which user and group Sonarr must run as. It’s important to choose these correctly to avoid permission issues with your media files. We suggest you keep at least the group name identical between your download client(s) and Sonarr. If you need to correct these after installation, please run dpkg-reconfigure sonarr. See debconf for more information.

sudo apt install sonarr

Browse to http://ip-machine:8989 to start using Sonarr.

JellySeer

  
sudo apt install -y curl dirmngr apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates

# Agrega la clave GPG del repositorio oficial de Node.js
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/nodesource-archive-keyring.gpg

# Configura el repositorio de Node.js LTS
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nodesource-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node $(lsb_release -s -c) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

# Actualiza la base de datos de paquetes nuevamente
sudo apt update

# Instala Node.js LTS
sudo apt install -y nodejs npm

npm install -g yarn

Install dependencies and build it

  
git clone https://github.com/Fallenbagel/jellyseerr.git && cd jellyseerr
git checkout main #if you want to run stable instead of develop
yarn install
yarn run build
yarn start

- assuming jellyseerr was cloned to /opt/ and the environmentfile is located at /etc/jellyseerr

Service:

  
  cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/jellyseerr.service > /dev/null

  [Unit]

  Description=Jellyseerr Service

  Wants=network-online.target

  After=network-online.target

  ​

  [Service]

  EnvironmentFile=/etc/jellyseerr/jellyseerr.conf

  Environment=NODE_ENV=production

  Type=exec

  Restart=on-failure

  WorkingDirectory=/opt/jellyseerr

  ExecStart=/usr/bin/node dist/index.js

  ​

  [Install]

  WantedBy=multi-user.target

  EOF

Environmentfile

mkdir /etc/jellyseerr

  
cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/jellyseerr/jellyseerr.conf > /dev/null
# Jellyseerr's default port is 5055, if you want to use both, change this.
# specify on which port to listen
PORT=5055

# specify on which interface to listen, by default jellyseerr listens on all interfaces
#HOST=127.0.0.1

# Uncomment if your media server is emby instead of jellyfin.
# JELLYFIN_TYPE=emby
EOF

  
sudo systemctl -q daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now -q jellyseerr

Browse to `http://ip-machine:5055 to start using Radarr.

If you get some error:

  
sudo journalctl --since today -u jellyseerr

Configurations

Sonarr & Radarr

Radarr is a fork of Sonarr so they are both very similar.

Radarr neeed an authentication…

Add download client

Go to Settings > Download Clients and click on the big [+] button. In the next section choose Transmission and configure it like this. Click Test and if successful, save.

Username and password are the same that we use to login on transmision popup, if you don´t set any, you are using default credentials see on: `/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Add indexers

Go to Settings > Indexers and click on the big [+] button. In the next section choose Torznab. Go to Jackett and copy-paste both the Jackett API key and the Indexer Torznab feed URL.

Some indexers will give error, this can be because the torrent we are indexing is down, it is not for movies (if we are in radarr) or it is not for series (if we are in sonarr).

Add as many indexers as you like.

Add directories

Go to Settings > Media Management and click on the blue Add Root Folder button. Add /anime and /tvshows for Sonarr, and /movies for Radarr.

  
$ sudo chown -R sonarr:media /media/anime
$ sudo chown -R sonarr:media /media/tvshows/
$ sudo chown -R radarr:media /media/movies/

Create new profile

This is to be able to download content in Spanish, with the quality that we mark. We can see it in Settings > Profiles

JellySeer

Create account using jellyfin

Configure media server

Configure Services

We wiil need the api key ( Settings > General )

And thas all…

We can see how to download it from:

Transmission:
Radarr:
JellySeer:

HomeLab, Jellyfin

This post is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the author.

Media Stack

Installations

JellyFin

Transmission

Jackett

Radarr

Sonarr

JellySeer

Configurations

Sonarr & Radarr

Add download client

Add indexers

Add directories

Create new profile

JellySeer

Create account using jellyfin

Configure media server

Configure Services

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