“You use my products each and every day”

Imagine this isn’t Musk but a secret Tim Cook lol

no joke but i remember reading something about this aagggeesssss ago where a group of researchers modelled the effects of no more mozzies on the food chain and found that, because barely anything fucking eats them, their eradication would be negligible

I’ve literally just set this all up and it’s working now after some tinkering, so here’s what I found out. Assuming you have correctly configured the sonarr/qbitorrent api keys and credentials:

When you make a TV show request in Sonarr, it will automatically add the torrent to your download client (e.g qbitorrent)

qbitorrent will then download the file to wherever you specify (e.g. /torrents/completed)

periodically, Sonarr will scan that /torrents/completed folder, and if it finds the tagged TV show, it will either copy or hard link that video file to your specified media folder (e.g. /media/tv-shows)

JellyFin will do the same, periodically scanning your media folders to see if there are any updates

EDIT: also if you are using docker containers, make sure that Sonars native /downloads folder is pointed at the same external folder your qBitTorrent is downloading files in

just cloudflare tunnel it - i set one up the other day and it works super well, proving external access to a locally hosted service all without having to set up your own SsL certs and worrying about exposing private ips or ports

literally was going through the exact same thoughts as you a couple a weeks ago, tried so many different configurations but the one i found that worked was actually kinda simple

basically they way i did was to run a gluetun docker container, and then in the environment variables pass in the the fact i wanted this to use the WireGuard VPN manager, and then i passed in my Proton VPN wireguard api key (you’ll need a subscription for this)

then once that gluetun container is up and running, you literally just add “network_mode: service:gluetun” to any other containers that you want to use this VPN

can you can even test its working by sending a curl command to an ip checking site from within those containers connected to gluetun

and then also try shutting down that gluetun vpn, and see if you other services (e.g. qbitorrent, still work)

Cool.

In other news, Swiss law makers claim opening and reading all mail sent to make sure it doesn’t include the phrase “monty bojangles” is “not a privacy concern”

My point is that in order to block a specific domain, you necessarily need to check it against a list of all legitimate domains being accessed

Here’s my approach to documentation. It’s about habits as much as it’s about actually writing anything down:

1. Never setup anything important via naked terminal commands that you will forget you did

2. Always wrap important commands in some kind of “setup-xyz.sh” script and then run that script to see if your install worked.

3. If you need to make a change to your service, ensure you update your script and so it can be re-run without braking anything

Get into the habit of this and you are documenting as you go

As in why is a post about VPNs on a self-hosted forum?

real question though is do you back up your backup server?

this is basically what i ended up doing to - glad to see my approach verified somewhat ha ha!

but yeah, in general whenever i make a change / add new service, i always try and add those steps to some sort of setup.sh / docker-compose

while security might be compromised if an attacker found your documentation, it could equally be compromised by having zero documentation

the easier it is for you to get things back up and running in the event of a data loss / corrupted hard drive / new machine / etc, the less likely you are to forget any crucial steps (eg setting up iptables or ufw)

does a wild card cert essentially mean i have use one cert which will cover all my subdomains as well as the primary domain?

Why would Cloudflare warn me against a service they themselves offer? The email authentication is all managed by them

why would you realistically need HTTPS on your local network?

“retrieving” from ripping my personal DVD and BluRay collection?

while I agree you have to remember everyone one here is likely way more techie than the average person

the ONLY issue I think non-tech people have with JellyFin is that you have to enter a specific domain/ip address to connect to a server - like I know to us that’s simple but it’s also very unlike how most paid-for streamers operate

i definitely didn’t have to enter my card details, could my region though

also, what kind of forum are you running that needs web sockets?

i second this

i haven’t gotten around to looking into something like terraform/ansible yet, and currently rely on a series of setup.sh scripts and docker-compose files

i have a single master setup.sh at the root of my homelab which basically just outlines which scripts i need to run and in what order in order to get things back up and running from zero

i only user my README.md for any non scriptable stuff (such as external services i rely on such as cloudflare/vpn providers, etc)

really? like what? i’ve been using docker completely free and unrestricted - at i think so haha

i have nginx proxy manager set up all as well, but haven’t worked out the SSL part yet, so all my internal docker services are still on http

out of interest, how did you set up https with npm?