Help needed configuring prowlarr with qBittorrent

khi

Yeah after seeing this and another very detail answer it looks line my settings are too demanding and that is causing a slowdown. Since i do direct playing on everything i might just turn them down for the one friend who seems to be always on the weirdest player that needs transcoding. Thanks all!!

khi

I don’t know where you’ve bought your N100 but i think it shouldn’t be able to do that. I have one too and it cant do even one 4k 10bit HDR transcode.

As i see in the results from the benchmarks we’ve gathered (here: https://gist.github.com/ironicbadger/5da9b321acbe6b6b53070437023b844d), my experience seems to be the common one.

While de N100 is a great value and low energy processor for a jellyfin server (especially if you direct play everything as is my case), I think if the objective is 4k hdr 10bit it will fall short as in my experience it usually transcodes at 8-9fps.

khi

Yes! Usually the ones that come with the media are fine for me but i also have the open subtitles plugin to download extra ones in my language. There are no problems 98% of the time and the other 2% its just that they won’t load and I just have to select/download different ones.

khi

Oh that is an extremely different experience that what I’m having! Chromecast works fine for me and i never have to restart anything and no problems with scrubbing either, just a bit slow on shows with a lot of episodes (300+). I have given my friends access to my server and most of them are using it just fine (sure with some issue now and then, as you said its not perfect). And in iOS with the alternative Swiftfin client the experience feels phenomenal!!

khi

I was just starting to fiddle with the Starr programs so i didn’t realize that the proper way to use it is to sync the torrent clients directly to sonarr and radarr. The issue happened on those programs all the same though. (fixed it already though)

khi

I got it to run, its fairly simple but i am having issues integrating it into the docker compose as it just… stops working… i’ll be looking into it today and tomorrow and if i succeed i’ll report back to you with findings.

khi

yeah, that and other stuff its very hacky. I’ve now done a .env file to keep everything parametrized.

khi

Thats good!! i’m now looking at how to set up caddy to do exactly just just that, then i’ll look at the vpns for outside connections. Thanks gor the advice!

khi

I think you are right! Now that you’ve explained it, it makes sense in my head, as someone else recommended i added hostnames and now i can work with those which makes it nicer, i don´t want to be opening a maze of ports xd

khi

Bingo! This worked. I don’t fully understand why because i expose the ports on the docker containers, i guess i must have something miss-configured. Thanks!!

khi · Version information: `qBit: v4.5.4 prowlarr: 1.7.4.3769` link fedilink

Version information:

qBit: v4.5.4
prowlarr: 1.7.4.3769

khi

i tried with 127.0.0.1:4666 but i got the same issue

khi

A colleague at work said he was running a Raspberry Pi but in the end had to move to a more powerful system because he needed more power. AFAIK he’s use case is lighter than what i plan so i thought it wasn’t a viable solution. What you describe sounds very nice, especially because of the price of the Pi.

Would love to hear more people’s experiences with this setup.

khi

Thank you for the comprehensive answer! I can see that storage is going to be a big issue here for all the media, I’ve been recommended in this thread to go for a NAS but their low RAM/high cost plus having to use their proprietary software is holding me back. Is a mini PC attached to a HDD enclosure a good solution? Won’t the USB speed be too slow or that isn’t an issue for a media server and the other utilities (I’m more focused on the media server as I am assuming that is the more taxing use case)

khi

My worries with a NAS is their very small RAM (on NAS of reasonable price). When running several docker containers i fear that might be an issue if suddenly several *arr are downloading, pihole, tailgate… all running at the same time might mean that the NAS with 1GB (and t these are already expensive, most I’ve seen more on my budget are half of that) of memory might not be enough (i think).

khi

for me a reliable one is EZTV. Can’t give you the domain name cause it changes every now and then but i think now its .re

khi

Help needed configuring prowlarr with qBittorrent

Help needed configuring prowlarr with qBittorrent

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