If you're only intend to use Radarr you can set your NZB indexer there and your downloader.
If you plan to add more arr later like Sonarr you can use Prowlarr and just link it, and not have to configure your indexers again in Sonarr.
Honestly if you're using nzb you'll only really need the nzb indexer so it shouldn't be all that hard to set up in other programmes
I'm surprised at just how capable it is for the money. All in I spent more buying a Raspberry Pi during Covid to run my Home Assistant. I mean of course that was my learning device so I had more idea what to buy this time and already had a ZigBee usb stick for example. But this didn't require me to buy an extra SSD to run off, and so far it's running my Home Assistant on a couple of cores with 6gb ram (which is doesn't use all of, it was set up with 4 but was regularly hitting that so I added a couple extra) and I have plenty of room to play with other things.
Wish I'd bought it many moons ago
I've just gone down the hardware route and bought myself a refurbished Dell Optiplex with i5 6500 and 16g ram for under £70 on eBay.
So far it's running Home Assistant, Docker (I have a bunch of stuff in Docker rn and most of it doesn't work but hey, I'm learning), OMV and an ARR stack with Plex that takes up half the 500gb drive on it. Currently awaiting a powered SATA to USB cable so I can see if I can mount some of these old HDDs I have lying around.
Anyway point being it wasn't expensive and seems to be running Plex fine.
I have my Arr stack running on a Windows VM. I'd like to run it in Docker but I'm finding the VPN to be troublesome.
I was told in here that 7th gen chips are good for hardware transcoding. This is the 2nd number of the chip set. So my Optiplex has a 6th gen i5 in it (i5-6xxx) and it's doing the job.
I picked up a 7 year old Netgear modem/router on eBay that has replaced my ISP modem/router. The WiFi is better, and I can port forward without taking all the cables out of the back (yeah that's a thing with the ISP one) and forward traffic through my Adguard DNS. Well worth the £25 I bought it for.
Also if it starts annoying me I can throw OPENWRT on it and play with that instead.
I have used DuckDNS and Nginx to get Home Assistant outside but it was horrible, just constantly breaking. Around Christmas time I bought myself a domain name for a few years and Cloudflare to access it, and it's been night and day since.
Sure it cost me money but it was far cheaper than a Nabu Casa account.
Hah if you've been on Reddit and seen some of the posts about LMS and Home Assistant you've probably seen a bunch of my posts about it.
When I installed PCP on the Pi Zero W it was hooked up to a Bluetooth soundbar. There was no need for soldering a PCB in there. The pi3b I have upstairs was running though and old pair of PC speakers I found in a drawer, and the one in my kitchen was run though and old Bose surround sound system, via an electric drum kit I got my kid for his birthday. Meant we could put songs on Spotify through it and play along on the drums
I can't answer your original question but I have had a lot of success using Logitech Media Server (LMS) or PiCorePlayer (same thing but all in one, server and end player). They are also known as Squeezebox.
I ran a server on a pi, then ran the player part on more Pis including a pi zero w which had PCP installed (but I just used the player part of it).
Squeezebox used to be a Logitech brand, you can still find them on eBay. They closed it down, but open sourced it and it was taken over by the OS community.
It looks shit. But there is a Material theme you can add that makes it look far nicer. It will run your own media from the server, but also other services like TuneIn Radio, Spotify, YouTube, BBC radio...
I ended up with it because there is a plugin that allows Google Home Minis to be used as end devices and I have 3 of them. So I had 6 end devices (3 Google, 3 Pis) and I could run them all together playing the same music throughout the house.
It's a bit buggy sometimes, and it requires a fair bit of fiddling. I found that the Google devices would always be out of sync by a half second or so. But on the whole I loved it, and when my Dell Optiplex comes I intend to revive it on that.
Yup I had a quick look after posting that reply and there is one for my Roku which is the main device I use for media. The kids watch on the PlayStation 4 though and it seems Sony are not great with OS software unfortunately.
That said I'll still probably spin up a container and have a play if my new server ever arrives
Thanks, I may very well do that. I just don't understand how to get the Jellyfin onto my telly, but don't worry I'm not asking for help with that, I like a bit of research.
I'm not quite a noob. I run an Arr stack on my PC and I'm going to be transferring it to a dedicated server along with Home Assistant and whatnot next week.
My question is, what's so good about Jellyfin? Why does it always get recommended over Plex? Plex seems to be working just fine so I just don't get why Jellyfin may be better.
Is it just that it's free and open source? Coz while I'm totally down with that, I don't pay for Plex and it seems to be working just fine.
Currently I have a pi4b running Home Assistant, Adguard, influx db, Maria db, Grafana, node red...
I have a pi3b running my main Adguard and Raspotify.
My main Pi can't handle Adguard and HA together, keeps crashing. So I just bought a Dell Optiplex 7050 mini to be an actual home server instead of having everything running as Home Assistant add-ons.
Planning on using it for Arr, Plex, HA, anything else I can think of, with my Pis being my Adguard and Raspotify instances and maybe get some Bluetooth tracking going in the house while I'm at it.
Might run a little Minecraft server for the kids too
Sometimes I smoke weed in my garden.
Gasp