Comment by nikcub | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nikcub | Hacker News Reader

I'll be trying this out, it could work well with Cloud Torrent. I've largely moved away from Torrents tho and switched to using NZB's and apps that automatically download tv shows and films[0]

Here is my stack:

1. NZB downloader - NZBGet - http://nzbget.net/

2. TV Shows - Sonarr - https://sonarr.tv/

3. Films - CouchPotato - https://couchpota.to/

4. NZB Search - NZBHydra - https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra (I contribute to this project)

5. Plex - https://www.plex.tv/

Add Torrent support:

6. Client - rtorrent - https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/

7. Web Interface - ruTorrent (warning: PHP) - https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent

8. Proxy private trackers to XML-RPC - Jackett - https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

9. Cloud Torrent - web interface - https://github.com/jpillora/cloud-torrent

Additional:

10. Plex stats, analytics and user management - PlexPy - https://github.com/JonnyWong16/plexpy

11. Plex request - allow users to request content - https://github.com/ngovil21/PlexRequestChannel.bundle

Hardware is a pair of HP Proliant Gen8 microservers, Ubuntu 14, Docker, nginx and LetsEncrypt. There is no real easy way to set this all up, you have to do each part of the stack yourself (a docker-compose file would go a long way to simplifying it)

[0] I spend over $200 a month on content subscriptions so I don't feel bad about utilizing the conveniance of NZB downloads + Plex

My stack looks fairly similiar, give or take a few pieces of software, SABnzbd instead of NZBGet for one.

I would highly recommend checking out Radarr (https://github.com/Radarr/Radarr) to replace CouchPotato as I find CouchPotato a very inconsistent experience, and sometimes I am outright confused as to what it is doing (seemingly not snatching the movies I want it to).

Radarr is actually a fork of Sonarr, so you can expect a pretty good experience right from the start and the development has been very active since it was announced around a month ago. The project only being a month old is the only caveat as I am still uncovering minor bugs, but the devs are quick to fix.

Thanks for the pointer - i've found the same with CounchPotato - and the entire quality/category categorization much more confusing than how Sonarr sets it up.

> [0] I spend over $200 a month on content subscriptions so I don't feel bad about utilizing the conveniance of NZB downloads + Plex

What do you spend $200/month on?

Probably cable Netflix Amazon etc

Exactly right - cable is $120 a month, then Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime (all US) and a handful of Australian services. Still prefer the downloaded version since our connections here can be unreliable (altho Netflix is usually good).

This is a insane setup, congrats ;)

I thought I was doing well running flexget[1] on Ubuntu on a crappy old netbook.

HTPC manager[2] might be worth a look too.

[1] Setup guide: http://www.htpcbeginner.com/blueprint-flexget-setup-guide/

[2] http://htpc.io/

Sonarr + NZBGet really is the winning team (+ extra nerd credits if you run it on an RPi of course). Can't believe I spent years using SickBeard. Discovering Sonarr was like 'ah, that is how it's supposed to be'. Will check out NZBHydra.

I do the same, very similar setup actually, but I still wind up using torrents when someone wants older stuff.

Unfortunately you get mixed results in terms of how things are labeled on public trackers and I haven't had a private tracker account since what.cd died.

I'll have to try out a few of these torrent search tools and see how it works out, but most private trackers didn't want to just take cash and seemed to want you to jump through hoops instead, so unless I can buy accounts via other means I'll probably just stick to public.

> I'll have to try out a few of these torrent search tools and see how it works out, but most private trackers didn't want to just take cash and seemed to want you to jump through hoops instead, so unless I can buy accounts via other means I'll probably just stick to public.

I think most private trackers are trying to avoid developing a reputation like that of IPTorrents [1], which is notorious for allowing people to "donate" for accounts.

Most private trackers also explicitly forbid members from selling invites for money, and, more recently, giving them to strangers.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/4xta11/so_lets_ta...

Yeah, looks like IPT and ultrahdclub might be worth a purchase though.

That is until they disable your account, and offer to enable it for another $30. Visit /r/trackers and there's probably a thread about IPT.

> most private trackers didn't want to just take cash and seemed to want you to jump through hoops instead

The higher end trackers are communities and they typically want people who'll fit in. One way to do this (and the one that's employed) is to only let people in if they're vouched for by someone who's already proved themself (get an invite from an existing member) or if they've proved themself on another tracker (get an invite from the tracker itself through the invite forum on another).

Lowering the barrier to entry by letting people simply buy their way in results in the tracker as a whole being degraded. This can be seen through the recent replacements for What.CD. One of the new trackers chose to heavily limit membership and focus on a small group of prolific uploaders that had proven themselves somehow while the other chose to have pretty much open signups. The pickier tracker, despite far more stringent entry requirements and a tiny fraction of the user count, currently has the larger catalogue and higher ratio of FLAC.

Also, my limited experience with pay-to-enter trackers has been that they're pretty much on par with public trackers. Perhaps even lower quality, definitely not close to the What.CDs of the world.

Yeah, this is why I went the usenet route mostly, people aren't whining about community in the usenet world. They just take cash and get it done. There's not a good indexer that doesn't take cash.

I'm just looking for more 2160p really, but so far no trackers I've found, public or private have satisfied that. Usenet has actually given the best result so far.

> people aren't whining about community in the usenet world

Unfortunately, community is what leads to content. There's an insane amount of stuff that's available on private torrent trackers that hasn't ever touched Usenet and the kinds of people with access to it aren't the kinds of people to put it on Usenet.

I'm the same but I don't torrent and I'm using sickrage rather than sonarr just because I find mono so unreliable, but I hear sonarr is better at finding older series.

My setup and situation is nearly identical (Except I use deluge+deluge-web instead of rtorrent+rutorrent), I'd be interested in setting up Magnetissimo but probably only if there was a docker container as everything else of mine runs in docker (in unRaid). Every once in awhile something old isn't on usenet and I have to get it manually and a local search would be convenient.

I could not get CouchPotato to work at all. I was hoping to at least use it for its renaming capability, but no such luck. Any tricks you want to share with the class?

Wow. I just use SS-Plex and press "Watch Later"

Kodi

Kodi will be great in a few years, at the moment it's interface is extremely clunky and slow.

Really? Have been an xbmc/spmc user for years now got a new device with recent Kodi and default skin (I think) and it might be 'somewhat' clunky but I definitely wouldn't call it 'extremely clunky and slow'. I consider it just fine and not that much of a difference with spmc of a couple of years old. What are you runing it on?

I wouldn't call it clunky and slow, it is just meant to be used from a tv. It's like saying steam big picture mode is clunky if you use it with mouse and keyboard. Kodi has a good api, although there are no good web interfaces yet, I have been also contemplating trying to build a cli around it

It depends what hardware you are running Kodi on. I was running OpenElec on a raspberry pi, it was pretty much unusable for me. When I opened Kodi, the scan for new media would take ages, and often not work at all. Now I had a dedicated Windows 10 HTPC with an SSD, and the experience is night and day versus the rpi.

Yeah, I usually give up and go to Netflix or Plex.

Having to click in to each link, then in again to the stream, then load it up, then back out, and that process again for the next episode. Just one example but there are lots of things like that.

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