I have bought my first proper home server and am setting up a full stack of media services on truenas scale after years of doing everything manually. In that regard I have set up jellyfin, sabnzbd and radarr, and the next step is to add jellyserr it seems. But then I stumble across prowlarr and cannot figure out if it is a contender to or a supplement to jellyserr. Can somebody tell me what the difference is, if I should use both if they are complementing each other or which you are using if they are competing?
Jellyseerr is the front end to download movies, the thing that get shown to you or your users, then it uses radarr and sonnarr to get movies and, radarr and sonnar then get the movie using torrent providers in prowlarr, then they send the torrent to qbittorrent or another bittorrent client.
Also, Jellyseerr is awesome when all of this is working perfectly!
theyre not contenders, they all work in unisson! even tho you can skip using Jellyseerr and get your movies on sonarr or radarr, but their UI is crap and confusing tbh…
I have radarr working fine in combination with sabnzb (i am on usenet instead of torrenting). What does prowlarr do in between them?
The other person is wrong. Your Usenet indexers will work on prowlarr. The most important feature that Prowlarr has that gets overlooked is that it will sync your indexers into the other arr programs like radarr sonarr, lidarr, etc… automatically. You make a change on prowlarr it syncs to them all. It’s the ideal solution for managing indexers all in one place.
Thanks! So prowlarr is the only place my indexers should be configured. And sonarr and radarr should only be configured with downloaders?
Yeah. Once you add indexer to prowlar it will be visible in radarr as well (also sonarr, lidarr, etc).
Jelyseerr is amazing GUI that you can use to grab media instead of logging in to radarr or sonarr.
I recommend both!
If you’re only intend to use Radarr you can set your NZB indexer there and your downloader.
If you plan to add more arr later like Sonarr you can use Prowlarr and just link it, and not have to configure your indexers again in Sonarr.
Honestly if you’re using nzb you’ll only really need the nzb indexer so it shouldn’t be all that hard to set up in other programmes
I will be using sonarr and maybe others as well. I have set it up now. I liked prowlarr a lot. I have a language specific torrent site I have added to it and it seems like prowlarr is the only place I can select exactly which language to download.
I thought you could set that up in the “Profiles” option.
If you are only using usenet then prowlarr will do nothing. Prowlarr aggregates torrent indexers and searches them for your request
That is not correct. Prowlarr also searches Newznab-compatible providers (i.e. most nzb-indexers).
Ah thanks! I have a specialist (Norwegian language) torrent site I couln’t get working in radarr. I have to give prowlarr a go then!