Rate my Netflix replacement
I have been tinkering around for over half a year now trying to create a viable alternative to paid streaming services and I think it's finally in a usable state
- Server is behind a CGNAT so I use cloudflare tunnels for applications and tailscale for ssh
- Rclone automatically syncs the 2tb library to E5 onedrive so I can just have a 500gb hard drive in there
- Radarr and Sonarr to automatically download movies and shows
- Jackett for interfacing with torrent indexers
- Jellyfin media server with trickplay and intro skipper enabled
- Watch history syncs to trakt so not even a reinstall can make me lose what episode I'm on
- Zabbix to monitor resource usage remotely
- Custom discord bot run offsite to ping the server and show the status and keep a library channel up to date with every single show and movie
The CPU is quite underpowered / I'm generating trickplay images a lot
Lets talk some issues:
I have an rx580 installed but couldn't figure out how to enable hardware acceleration in jellyfin properly, maybe I just need to reinstall ubuntu server which seems to fix most issues caused by hardware changes.
I have had tons of issues in the past with the server freezing catastrophically due to a memory leak and I still don't exactly know what the issue is but ever since I disabled the plex server and some other services I didnt use it has been stable.
So what do you think? Netflix sure has it's advantages but at $15/month in power usage to have access to every single show and movie (that has a torrent) is a pretty good deal.