Jellyfin (+ARR+RD) What’s the next step?

Hi there!

I have these running on my RPi 4 with DietPi OS: -Jellyfin -Sonarr -Radarr -Prowlarr -Bazarr -qBittorrent -Jackett -Jellyseerr

Also, I have Real Debrid.

I am struggling with the setup. What should I do next? Any advice or suggestions? Do I have redundant programs? Does anybody know how to set up them?

Thanks in advance for your help :)

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Everybody seems to favour Trash Guides. Just as a counterpoint:
He is super focused on the highest quality available. Unless you're watching on a huge 4k/UHD screen with professional a sound system, take those guides with a grain of salt. Modify the values to your own screen resolution. If your screen is an older model it may not accommodate more than 1080p or even 720p video anyway.
Bandwidth may also be an issue depending on where you live and what your ISP provides. If so, downloading larger files than your screen/projector affords is a double waste. Go for h265 instead of h264 and save yourself the wait. You can always download them in a better quality when you upgrade your home theatre.
I want to make clear, I would have been lost in the *arr settings if not for the Trash Guides, but man. They're absolutely written for somebody with ample bandwidth and a huge home cinema setup.
- Regarding the speed of my internet, that it is not a problem (I have 1000mb downloading), neither with the max resolution (my tv supports 4k). Now, regarding the sound and storage you have a point here. I need to increase my RPi storage capacity. Another issue could be the content language, I need at least 3 different ones, and not just subtitles. Thanks for it!
  
  I just doubled my storage, and honestly I'm considering gradually replacing as many videos as possible with x265 versions just to make the disk space last.
  
  Sounds like BlueRay Remux and Web Downloads are what you should be looking for. Radarr and Sonarr shine at this.
  High quality audio can consume a great deal of disk space, but it’s probably going to unavoidable if you’re looking for releases with multiple audio and subtitle tracks available. I would not exactly call this rare anymore, but it’s definitely not the default so you want to wait until after you have search and download working across the board.
  The only thing I didn’t see on your list is any type of library optimization. I kind of gave up on it myself because it’s faster for me to just redownload something than recompress it, and that’s their major use case… but you might find utility in removing additional audio or subtitle tracks, or to rearrange defaults.
  Handling additional data streams like subtitles and multiple languages is not quite as mature, hardware players often have strong preferences. Something to keep in mind as your planning out your setup.
Jackett and prowlarr are redundant, other than that you're pretty much set.
As for setting these up, in my case I winged it and went through the config pages, setting up what I thought was necessary, and it went mostly fine. If you have no idea what you're doing with these good resources are https://wiki.servarr.com/ and https://trash-guides.info/
- Trash guides seems to be exactly what I need. Thanks for your answer!
Check the memory usage of your rbpi because it should be barely scraping by if you have the max 8gigs. Too many jellyfin sessions open and you might be running into real problems.
Jacket and Prowlarr are redundant. I'd stick with Prowlarr. Also i never heard of Real Debrid before but it sounds redundant to the entire setup.
Go through your sonarr/radarr settings and configure quality profiles. https://trash-guides.info/
Unmanic to optimize your library in the background. Encoding things to x265 can buy you a huge amount of space.
Edit: Reading again i see that you're on a pi. Not at all sure what the video encoding performance is on those.
Other comments seem not to mention the Real Debrid bit, so I’ll focus on that here:
Personally, I use my preferred debrid service to reduce the amount of stuff I need to store. You can mount the files you’ve got saved in your debrid using rclone with the webDAV creds that Real Debrid gives you.
You should probably use rogerfar’s rdt-client, even if you only use real Debrid to download torrents without using your own ip. It implements the qBittorrent API so you can point *arts at it as a download client. It’s got a couple of modes, so you can either have the files downloaded or symlinked from the mount discussed above.
Zerg from DebridMediaManager is something I've heard good things about, but i haven't been able to try it as its source-available for a fee, which i disagree with.
- I am trying to set up RDT Client, but it seems almost impossible, for some reason it does not work on my RPi. Same as you here regarding the fee, I am trying to avoid them as much as possible. Thanks for your answer.
You should definitely nerd into the trash guides wiki, their way of setting up these apps are by far the best way. If you need video tutorials you should check out a YouTube channel called Ibracorp!
Why not just install stremio+torrentio? Maybe debrid provider too(if you want to spend money)?
- Because Stremio is not available on my platforms (f#<|!ng 🍎), unfortunately.
  
  You should buy a Mi TV Stick or Mi TV Box they are pretty cheap and have pretty good performance. You can find them in AliExpress. Good luck 🙏🤞

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