I am looking for a plug-in for media requests from users.
My users suck, and won’t tell me if I’m missing stuff they want, or my copies are bad (with a few very helpful exceptions) so I’m looking for some sort of integration that like tells me what they are looking for, or makes it easy for them to ping me a suggestion to add/fix. I don’t watch most of my library, so this is a big concern.
Most of my users don’t know my number or email because they are my partner’s friends and I don’t use the email address my server is tied to, for security (nor are messages usually passed to me on the rare occasion they are sent to him). So “have them text you” isn’t really a good option, and it’s enough of a struggle to get them to use it in the first place that adding another standalone app isn’t going to do it either.
Preferably I would like something my end users don’t have to do anything to access, maybe a few button presses in their search interface? Like “search returns no results, request this content” as a button maybe?
Does anything like that exist?
You’ve been recommended Ombi, but I recommend Overseerr instead. You can set it to permit them to only login using Plex auth (so no credentials for you to manage) and import your user list from Plex. It links up to radar or sonarr (and other stuff) for downloads. It can be configured to auto-approve downloads so you don’t have to do anything.
I’ve been using it for years now. It’s great.
So you can set this all up without needing your own domain or something like taliscale? I’ve wanted something like Ombi for a long time but don’t have the skills to set these (authentication, security, etc) up safely
you can go to no-ip.com for a free domain name to use. you have to renew every 30 days, but it’s just clicking a couple of buttons. it’s pretty great, and I’ve used it for years.
also, overseer is pretty great
See this Useful Plex Add-ons guide for more info
If you want it accessible outside of your LAN, then yes, you’ll need a domain or tailscale/a VPN of some kind. But that’s true of any service.
I have some pretty heavy security on my config, but I expose the Overseerr container directly and just let the Plex auth do its thing. It doesn’t have write access to anything important anyway.
This looks very promising, and I’m looking at their page but I don’t understand how it integrates. Do I add it, do my users…? I second the question by the other commenter, but also this looks like more what I’d want if it’s a more seamless integration.
You would just be another Overseerr user. At initial setup, you pull all of the users you’ve shared your Plex server into the Overseerr config. You can dig into the settings and tweak it - the number of movies a default user can request per day, number of seasons of TV, etc. I have mine set up to auto-approve all requests, but users can only request one season of TV and three movies per day, to avoid people abusing the service. In general I don’t have to touch it.
Shit that sounds perfect.
Did you have to configure rss feeds (pulling semi-related terms out my ass so if this is wrong lmk, I have noooo idea!) or anything or was that just part of it?
Or I guess how do you have it only pull from sources you want/trust?
In my specific case, I’m subscribed to a usenet indexing service, which is hooked in to sonarr & radarr, which send downloads to sabnzbd+ to trigger the downloads. Overseerr just adds another layer, sending requests to sonarr/radarr.
That said, Overseerr will work with pretty much whatever your specific method is. Just hook it in and the services handle the rest.
Thank you for taking the time to chat with me!
I am going to need to do some looking into those things because I understood little of that, but I appreciate being pointed in the right direction (or at least a direction 😜), with the right words to look into.
I do want a ronco experience eventually - set-and-forget (pipe dream, I know, that’s not how things work). So I just need to learn about the feed options (already on my to-do list for stuff I want for myself once my spare/work pc isn’t being used for anything) and then this for my users and everyone is good to go! Maybe! 😁
How are you currently searching & downloading content?
Currently I am not, because I am intentionally overhauling my way of doing things entirely. Pia sold out from what I hear so I’m doing a ton of looking into better options for vpn, sites, trackers, etc. and looking to automate some of it since I’ll have time and energy to learn how to do that.
Prior: manually. Sources: varied and questionable.
One of the benefits of downloading from usenet is that no VPN is required: all of your content to/from your usenet provider can be encrypted and you’re never uploading content, like a torrent.
Look online and find yourself:
a usenet NZB indexer (pay for this service. Not free)
a usenet provider. Get a monthly subscription. They’re reasonably-priced. Tons of reviews out there, just search.
After you have both of those, you install sonarr (for TV shows), radarr (for movies), and sabnzbd+ (for doing the download). You connect your indexer account to sonarr/radarr and your usenet account to sabnzbd. Then, for example, you search for a movie on your radarr installation: radarr sends a query to your NZB indexer, which finds a result and returns it to radarr; that result is then forwarded to sabnzbd from radarr; sabnzbd connects to your usenet account and downloads the requested content. Presto!