Saw it trending in Overseerr so i snatched the whole season cause i needed something to watch this weekend.
I went in blind, all I know is that is based on some Chinese Novels.
I watched the first couple of episodes and so far:
- The two main characters are insufferable girl bosses, specially the Eiza Gonzalez character. Like the bestests of the best in their fields.
- Males are either simps and / or buffons.
- Every relationship is interracial. Asian / Curry eater, with white dude simping over 6/10 Asian. Whitexican Coal burner.
- Cop is kid is a faggot, because.. reasons?
I HIGHLY doubt a Chinese author would create these characters, so this makes me believe NF just did a Witcher 2.0.
Anyone that has read the books or is familiar with the story, whats the take?
What is Overseerr?
First hit on search.brave.com
Not the guy you're responding to but I just read that site several times, and still have no idea what it does. There's zero context about what requests are and how they work. Is this a torrent thing? Do random people on the internet request access to my server? Do files get downloaded or are things streamed?
It's a pretty shit site.
You seem to have mostly understood it below, but I'll clarify.
The *Arr stack are programs that are designed to facilitate piracy.
I personally run Jellyfin/Jellyseerr/Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr/Qbittorrent/PrivateInternetAccess. Overseerr is for Plex, and fuck paying for piracy, so I use jelly.
Jellyfin is the front-end, basically the self-hosted netflix web site that plays your movies.
Jellyseerr is a program for those too stupid to figure out torrent sites. You can just input "Batman" and select the quality, and then JellySeerr will send a request to either Radarr or Sonarr, depending if you picked a batman movie or a batman tv show.
Radarr does movies.
Sonarr does TV.
These programs then schedule a download when it gets released, or if it's already released, they pass the request down into Prowlarr.
Prowlarr logs into torrent sites for you (both public and private) and presents Sonarr/Radarr with a list of options, which they then pick which one to download based on the resolution/quality that you chose in JellySeerr. Typically you then pass that torrent file into a qbtittorrent container that has a VPN enabled network so it can safely download without the powers that be getting upset. Jellyfin watches the download folders and automatically presents new content as it comes in.
There are much more *Arr programs. Readarr for books, for example.
A good coherent example of setting this all up and leveraging a NAS to do it is at:
https://github.com/AdrienPoupa/docker-compose-nas/
Thanks for the additional info. 👍
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Pretty good explanation dude!
I mostly use Jellyfin to, but you only have to pay for Plex Pass if you want to "unlock" HW transcoding with Plex Pass.
You can just use regular Plex to forward the request to Overseer, all you have to do is just add the tvshow / movie to Plex's Watchlist. The Plex app is available for every device out there while Overseer is only a selfhosted webapp. Like for my parents, i just sent them up Plex on their AndroidTV device and they can request whatever the fuck they want from Plex Discover, then switch to Jellyfin to actually watch it, cause Jellyfin support HW transcoding out of the box. My $120 Intel N100 mini PC can GPU transcode several streams at once while using like 4watts total.
Yeah an example for context: I currently Shogun (2024) added in Sonarr. Sonarr fetches the media info from sites like IMDB, etc and knows how many seasons, episodes, names, and release dates are. If its in the future, It will query Prowlarr at that date ( which is already set to use certain torrent sites,, i use private ones) on a set interval until it finds it based on your search criteria, such as 4K quality) download it / unpack it if needed / move it to your media folders, which are nicely name by Sonarr.
You also download everything to a seedbox and have it securily puss the download to you. Or you can run everything on the seedbox. Most of them have n00b friendly one click install for all the *Arr suite and more, like Ultra.cc.
Looks like a plugin for Plex that will show you recommendations.
You have to really buy into Plex and have a group of users that you provide access to. Imagine you are the Plex server owner with a library of liberated content that you provide to friends and family (who run Plex clients) similar to netflix. I don't run Plex myself but I know some who do, for their parents and siblings.
@Ralt explained it pretty well above:
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17siJJqrTd/x/c/4ZA1LPnBKMu
But Plex already does that. I've given access to friends and family, so I'm not sure what this adds unless it's truly for finding stuff that strangers have and requesting access to it. The site just does a very poor job of explaining what it actually does.
Edit: After quite a bit more reading, it does appear to be torrent related. Radarr and Sonarr do the searching for movies and TV, and initiate the torrent downloads. Overseerr appears to be mostly a recommendation system, with the ability to queue things in those other programs when you find a recommendation you want.
And it doesn't appear to be a Plex plugin, it's a whole separate application that works with Plex and uses it for user management, but isn't really integrated.
https://medium.com/@rafaelmagalhaes93/home-media-server-with-plex-sonarr-radarr-qbitorrent-and-overseerr-fec90f623777
Is part of the *arr suite, along with Sonarr and Radarr. At its core, is request management for Plex / Jellyfin.
You basically automate all the Jack Sparrowing of Movies and TVShow. Is quite a rabbit hole get down, but once setup anyone with an account ( say your mom), all she has to do is click request something and it will out and grab it based on the parameters you set.