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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • 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!



  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.