With the recent password sharing crackdown, I decided to ditch my Netflix subscription and try piracy. What I miss about Netflix is scrolling through content and finding something to watch. With piracy I need to know exactly what I am looking for.
So I am wondering if it’s possible to have a Netflix like GUI but powered by piracy? And as this is the pirate world, it shows shows and movies not just from Netflix but also from the other streaming services? And finally it is available on TVs ( Samsung tizen in my case). Something like this would be the best case scenario. Wondering if someone has a similar setup?
Use Plex, and the *arr apps along with a usenet subscription. When I add something to my watchlist in Plex, it automatically downloads. It takes a little work to set up but it’s pretty seamless.
I didn’t know you could do this… shit there goes a bunch more hours of my life…
Voting this over Jellyfin. Plex actually has good apps for the end-users to stream from. Jellyfins apps are iffy at best and awful at worst
Agreed, BUT: I am really concerned about how much data Plex has, especially with their push to go legit. I set up a pi-hole and plex sends out a good amount of analytics. They know what you’re watching, which means it’s possible they’d have to share that information.
Also, if plex goes down so does your server. I love plex but if any of the 100% self hosted stuff catches up I’m absolutely jumping ship.
Jellyfin is really really nice btw. I havent experienced any issues and I have it setup in docker with gpu for transcoding.
I’ve played with it a bit, and am in the middle of upgrading my setup and will probably run both in parallel. My biggest issue with Jellyfin is the app UI is just miles behind Plex right now. I have a fair amount of people that use my server, and there is no way I could get them to use a Jellyfin client. That and, while I kinda mostly know what I’m doing, heavy emphasis on “kinda”.
But I rally like Jellyfin in concept, and I’m excited to have some proper dedicated hardware to get to know it better!
That’s only for authentication and some apps. You can set an IP whitelist so it doesn’t require auth from certain ranges - when I changed ISP a little while ago, I was still using Plex offline.
oh that is awesome! I guess I’d still have to manually input a (dynamic) IP for anyone outside of my local, but that is an awesome work around to know, thanks!
This is why I’m not quite ready for Jellyfin as a main platform. It’s pretty good, but I’m still getting a handle on how this all works.
How did you setup the plex watchlist download? I use overseerr for that now, but if I can just use Plex that makes it easier…
The integration is built in. Just go into the settings.
I wonder if there’s a way to do this, but only if that show or movie isn’t on one of your services.
Oh that sounds a lot nicer than having to add them to sonarr/radarr. Very interesting.