Hey, I just published a self-hosted streaming service, it’s called Odin.
Odin comes in two parts, a server and an Android app. Both can be found on GitHub, with their install instructions.
I’ve used many of the readily available apps in the past, and they all came with their pros and cons. I was mostly annoyed by the fact, that most of them use their own server-backend, somewhere. So each time, the app stops working, I didn’t know whether their server just crashed, or the developer abandoned the app and I had to look for something else. I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to “the highest bidder”. Oh, and I also disliked the UI of these apps.
That’s why I started working on Odin.
In fact, I’ve been using it for almost 4 years now, and did a LOT of iterations during these years. Now, I’m more than happy with the end result, and wanted to share it with the world.
The main features of Odin are:
Discovering movies and TV shows
A nice and beautiful UI
Customizable Trakt lists
Multi-User support
I hope you like it!
Oh, and feel free to submit any feature requests or issues on GitHub. If you want, you can star the repo, so I know there’s actual interest in the project.
Interesting. Will have to take a look at it later. I currently use Jellyfin and don’t have many issues. The only thing that might be a pain point is tuner support. I didn’t see anything mentioned. But looks nice otherwise. And intrigued to see its largely in Go.
What do you mean jellyfin uses the *are suite?
I have Jellyfin with any media in different directories as long as I try to match the format the documents mention.
So, as long as I can get the media in any way I can just put it in any directory and it’ll be added to the library.
Is it similar with Odin? Or does it directly fetch the media from where you want to download it?
It doesn’t download anything and also does not fetch any local media. It uses jackett to scrape sites like 1337x.to for magnets, sends these magnets to realdebrid/alldebrid and gets a streamable link back which you can watch instantly.
By arr-suite… I meant the automated setups that people do, to get stuff downloaded directly into the movies/shows folders, hoarding huge MKV files, etc… Sorry for the confusing wording.
And that’s fine. Totally fine. I wouldn’t use judgemental words or words with a negative connotation to describe their lack of storage because I feel that’s an absolutely fine stance to have.
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Interesting. Will have to take a look at it later. I currently use Jellyfin and don’t have many issues. The only thing that might be a pain point is tuner support. I didn’t see anything mentioned. But looks nice otherwise. And intrigued to see its largely in Go.
Jellyfin uses the *arr suite, but Odin relies on a debrid service. The benefit is that nothing is hoarded on the device itself.
What do you mean jellyfin uses the *are suite?
I have Jellyfin with any media in different directories as long as I try to match the format the documents mention.
So, as long as I can get the media in any way I can just put it in any directory and it’ll be added to the library.
Is it similar with Odin? Or does it directly fetch the media from where you want to download it?
It doesn’t download anything and also does not fetch any local media. It uses jackett to scrape sites like 1337x.to for magnets, sends these magnets to realdebrid/alldebrid and gets a streamable link back which you can watch instantly.
By arr-suite… I meant the automated setups that people do, to get stuff downloaded directly into the movies/shows folders, hoarding huge MKV files, etc… Sorry for the confusing wording.
You keep saying “hoarding” but I think you mean collecting/protecting in many cases.
Yeah, if the ones and zeros arent in your drive, it can disappear at any point from the internet.
I frequently want to watch things that aren’t the latest blockbuster with hundreds of seeders.
If there’s only one person seeding and they aren’t on 24/7 this whole flow falls apart.
Thank goodness bladders don’t require others for the flow of our own individual streams!
Some people just don’t want to store anything on their devices for whatever reason.
And that’s fine. Totally fine. I wouldn’t use judgemental words or words with a negative connotation to describe their lack of storage because I feel that’s an absolutely fine stance to have.
So it doesn’t download for later use? It just becomes a proxy system to stream from the debrid service?
Exactly. It gets the streaming links instantly from the debrid service.
What? Jellyfin doesn’t need any “suite”? You can use it with your collection obtained whatever way.