Stop swabbing the deck.
Let the fleet do the plundering.
No more hunting torrents, sorting folders, renaming files or chasing subtitles by hand. You just ask for a film — your crew of Radarr and Sonarr sail the high seas, and Jellyfin brings it home to port, subtitled, on your telly. One Docker Compose file crews the whole self-hosted fleet.
The old way was mutiny on your evening.
Every film, the same slog. Now the crew handles it while you pour the rum.
By hand ☠
- Trawl five sketchy sites for a torrent
- Download and hope it's not an exe
- Drag it into the right folder
- Rename it to satisfy your ADHD
- Go hunt subtitles
With the fleet ⚓
- Added when announced, or when you fancy
- Sails in from your own or popular lists
- Downloads start the moment it is released
- The crew moves, renames, adds matching subtitles
- Notified when it lands; just click Play
Meet the crew.
Seven little containers, one docker-compose up, running by supper.
Radarr
Quartermaster · Films
Hunts, grabs & files every movie you want.
Sonarr
Quartermaster · TV
Follows your shows, grabs each new episode.
Seerr
The Ship's Log
Crew & guests request titles with a tap.
Jellyfin
Home Port
Streams it all to every telly in the house.
Prowlarr
The Spyglass
Scans every indexer on the high seas.
Bazarr
The Translator
Finds & syncs subtitles in your tongue.
qBittorrent
The Cargo Hold
Does the actual hauling, quietly.
Why you actually want it.
The bits that turn "a media server" into "never think about it again".
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Follow the tides
Lists & watchlists
Follow IMDb / Trakt lists — new releases sail in automatically.
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Word from the crow's nest
Notifications
Pinged the moment a title lands, however you like.
Chart your course.
Three steps from empty NAS to your own bottomless cinema.
01 · Understand
Home Media Server
What each container does & why this crew.
03 · Command
Container Management
One dashboard so you never memorise a port again.
Charts from other captains.
We're not sailing these seas alone — wisdom from fellow crews worth following.
Servarr WikiThe manuals
The canonical charts for every *arr aboard your ship.
Trash GuidesQuality & naming
Dial in quality profiles and custom formats like a quartermaster.
selfh.stWeekly dispatches
The freshest self-hosting news and app finds, every week.
r/selfhostedThe tavern
Where the crews swap charts, hard-won wins, and war stories.