It’s quite full-on for someone who’s never heard of these.
Think of these services like an ecosystem, each supporting each other.
I’ll start with Jellyfin and Jellyseerr, as this is what most people will want to interact with, and what your family would feel comfortable using.
Jellyfin is where you can watch movies and shows, on mobile, web or on the TV. This is essentially the streaming client.
Jellyseerr is where you can search through all of the movies and shows on the internet, and you can also request them with a click of a button. Once requested, they get downloaded and added to Jellyfin automatically.
Now, for the parts which are more technical, and what your family will not want to see or use.
Sonarr is linked up with Jellyseerr, torrent indexers, and the torrent client, to enable it to query for relevant show torrents. Essentially it takes away the manual work of finding a torrent, downloading it, moving it into the directory where Jellyfin can recognise it. It’s an automation tool
Radarr is the same, just for movies and not shows.
Jackett is where you add your private or public torrent indexers. It provides a standard API of which Sonarr and Radarr can use to query for torrents. You may need another service to get through CloudFlare CAPTCHAs, but I forgot its name.
Transmission is a torrent client. You don’t specifically need this one, but it’s lightweight and does the job
It’s quite full-on for someone who’s never heard of these.
Think of these services like an ecosystem, each supporting each other.
I’ll start with Jellyfin and Jellyseerr, as this is what most people will want to interact with, and what your family would feel comfortable using.
Jellyfin is where you can watch movies and shows, on mobile, web or on the TV. This is essentially the streaming client.
Jellyseerr is where you can search through all of the movies and shows on the internet, and you can also request them with a click of a button. Once requested, they get downloaded and added to Jellyfin automatically.
Now, for the parts which are more technical, and what your family will not want to see or use.
Sonarr is linked up with Jellyseerr, torrent indexers, and the torrent client, to enable it to query for relevant show torrents. Essentially it takes away the manual work of finding a torrent, downloading it, moving it into the directory where Jellyfin can recognise it. It’s an automation tool
Radarr is the same, just for movies and not shows.
Jackett is where you add your private or public torrent indexers. It provides a standard API of which Sonarr and Radarr can use to query for torrents. You may need another service to get through CloudFlare CAPTCHAs, but I forgot its name.
Transmission is a torrent client. You don’t specifically need this one, but it’s lightweight and does the job