We’re excited to announce a major update: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are officially merging into a single team called Seerr. This unification marks an important step forward as we bring our efforts together under one banner.
For users, this means one shared codebase combining all existing Overseerr functionalities with the latest Jellyseerr features, along with Jellyfin and Emby support, allowing us to deliver updates more efficiently and keep the project moving forward.
Please check how to migrate to Seerr in our migration guide and stay tuned for more updates on the project!
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Moved from overseerr to jellyseerr. Now from jellyseerr to seerr.
Good news!!
I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.
Yea they announced it months ago, but the first release of seerr just dropped today.
Ah right, that makes sense!
I was checking just a few hours ago. Just in time, cool!
I’ve missed both projects. What were they? Are they like Jackett or Prowlarr?
The fact it recommends popular stuff is a useful addon feature, its a good way to look at what others are watching.
Media requester for Plex and Jellyfin. But also tells you where things are streaming. A mix between IMDB and JustWatch.
Overseer was for Plex
Jellyseer was for JellyfinNow we have Seer one platform to do both.
If you just host for yourself, you don’t gain that much by using Seerr, besides having a nicer UI and you have more search filters compared to Sonarr and Radarr.
However, if you have multiple users, you benefit a lot of it. Users, which have individual user accounts, can request media. Depending on the configuration, those requests have to be accepted manually, which gives you a way to still be in control of what ends up on your server. The user then gets notified about what has happened and if the media was downloaded.
Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.
Possibly the best foss UX I’ve ever used.
+ on this. Seer has better search than many popular movies/tv sites out there.
I still prefer it as the only user so I don’t have to switch between Radarr and Sonarr. I also find the search to be much better than either of those
Doesn’t seem like OIDC made it into the new release, weird. Unless I missed something in the documentation. It’s been working fine on the preview branch for ages.
I was surprised to see emby mentioned. I thought they shot themselves so hard in their feet with the licensing changes back then that there was a reason that we only hear from jrllyfin these days.
Afaik Jellyfin and Emby use the same authentication so by adding Jellyfin support Emby automatically works too.
Jellyfin is a fork of emby (from when it went closed source), so that makes sense. They have diverged quite a bit but seems the Auth hasn’t changed enough.
You mean when they went closed source? I know Jellyfin is all open source but apparently rougher UX all round… and Emby is miles better than Plex, not least because Plex has a scalp-worthy cost and too many paywalled features. Jellyfin to me is a purist alternative - libre software is ideal but you start to get a much weaker product.
I wouldn’t say that Jellyfin is an inferior product nowadays, it is much better now, and has things Plex doesn’t have like easy free hardware transcoding
I main jellyfin. It lacks:
- default SSL
- Carrier grade nat relay.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
- fast search on large libraries.
I end up using it with tailscale, but that’s well out of reach for my friends and family who share my Plex stuff.
- default SSL
Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin settings
- Carrier grade nat relay.
Not the point of an open source server. That’s your issue.
- caching the TVDB and movie DB.
Why?? But anyway, Jellyfin can poll those for metadata
- Centralized login and account management with 2FA
There is a plugin to do OpenID
- fast search on large libraries.
Can’t comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)
Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin setting
I didn’t say I could recreate Plex in my homelab. I said Jellyfin has short comings.
Not the point of an open source server. That’s your issue.
Moving the goal posts, The point of this exercise is to show how Jellyfin is a direct replacement for Plex. If you say that it is not, my points stand that it is lacking.
caching the TVDB and movie DB.
Every new user that moves from Plex to JF just hammers the fuck out of the free and open services. When one of those services has any issue at all, we’re collectively in bad shape. Plex has protection against this. It would be useful if we cached their stuff and threw it into a DHT, crowd refreshing it.
There is a plugin to do OpenID
This does not work for anything by pc clients. if you feed a roku, appletv, android TV, samsung television, visio… a 2FA prompt, it’ll tell you to get bent. THEN there’s the half assed fail2ban they made instead of surfacing the logs someplace that we could use real fail2ban, but now you have ME complaining that I can’t hack features into it where there’s no reason they’re not already there.
Can’t comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)
Their search sucks balls even for small libraries. They know it and they’ve been working on it for years. There are some crazy hacky solutions screwing with ports and moving traffic through elastic-cache. it’s extremely hacky.
In the end, I’m using Jellyfin as my own personal media server and the media server for my family in my house. It’s not as safely designed as Plex, which itself has had some security issues in the past, but they have a paid team for that, You can’t even hack all the features Plex has into your home lab, I could stick it behind cloudflare and get SSL, some proper anti hammer, anti-abuse, but then I’m selling my watch habbits to cloudflare.
I’m glad we have Jellyfin, I wish I had the skill and time to contribute, if they’d even PR a big-ass change like 2FA, last I heard they were standing on the “that might lead people to port forward it openly which would be less secure”, like people aren’t already doing that.
I’d LOVE to get rid of my Plex, it’s just no where near as capable for my remote users, I can’t force grandma to run tailscale.
So you no longer need a Plex account to use overseer?
Overseerr required Plex. It was forked into Jellyseerr to allow Emby and Jellyfin accounts. Now Overseerr and Jellyseer merge into one tool called Seerr that combines the features. So no.
That was one smooth transition! 🚀
No kidding! Copy and paste the contents of the previous container to a new directory for the new container, sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /path/to/new/directory, docker pull the new image, and Bob’s your uncle. I’m so relieved I didn’t have to reconfigure all the *arr integrations and whatnot within the web GUI all over again
I just changed my compose reference to update the volume and base image. Worked a treat.
The jellyseer android app automatically renamed itself to seer the first time I launched the app after upgrading my server. That was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
yea that would have been a pain indeed! I feared that too, pleasantly surprised now 😁
That was totally unexpected /s
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAT Network Address Translation Plex Brand of media server package SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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I don’t quite get what this is supposed to do. Is it basically a software to allow jellyfin/plex users to request media without needing a radarr/sonarr account?
Yes.
Basically yes. My father can log into Overseer with his Plex account, so no new account and password, and request movies or tv shows which I can approve manually or pre-approve. I don’t have to give him admin access to my Sonarr or Radarr and the user interface is quite friendly.
It’s a beautiful UI for requesting content where you don’t go into the details of arrs. Great if you have other family members you want to allow to request things.
Also great for finding trending content, ratings, trailers, and also all the work an actor/actress has done.
I switched over last night, migration guide here, it’s really easy!
I don’t know much about the *eerr stuff… Is there a good way to connect a debris service with that? I’m using Stremio+Torrention rn, but it’s crashing regularly or isn’t able to find magnet links.
No idea what either of these were in the first place. Feels like it could have been worth a mention in the post.
I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.
But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.
That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.
That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)
Anyone know if you can integrate this with a real-debrid account or similar service? I’ve been enjoying using real-debrid since I don’t have to worry about storing the stuff I’m watching.
No debrid support, this is for connecting to the Arrs services which work for either torrents or usenet.
Right, but the debrid services handle torrenting, you send the torrent file and it downloads it for you, and shows up in your movies/shows folder when you mount them with rclone. So all I would need this to do is send the requested torrent to the debrid URL instead of to the whatever does the actual downloading in the *arrs stack
I think decypharr might do what you want, it simulats a qbittorrent client to connect to debrid.
What you want to it withvis called sonarr/radarr
Explain how you think that would help.
Sent to the wrong comment lol. Disregard the previous one. Anyway: Sonarr/Radarr doesnt do any downloading. They just manage the sending of the task to the downloader and the import.
