Tl;dr: I understand docker is supposed to help get things running on different systems easily, can someone give me a copy of their working Arr stack?
Frustrated venting I’m past being new to this server thing having run mine for over a year so I guess I can officially say I’m just bad at it. I’ve been working on getting Sonarr, Radarr, and, lidarr running since 4 in the afternoon, discounting dinner that’s 6 hours of constantly failing to get these to work. This is my 5th time trying since I learned about it in April.
I’ve given up on the automatic downloads, I’ve given up on the request system, I’m even done with the torrenting, I’ll just do that on my phone. All I want is something that format my 5TB of media to Title (date) instead of MOVIE_TITLE_ALL_UNDERSCORE, or TB_1000, or movie.videoformat.year.special.deluxe.username.host.visit.my.site.please. I was sold on this idea that self hosting was a relatively easy thing that anyone can get into and while I have a good understanding of how a config.yml is supposed to look and work, and I’ve got a decent understanding of ssh and sftp between two computers, but trying to grt any one of these things to run is soul crushing. I literally work in the foster system and my worst cases do not give me the stress this does. I just want to get it fixed so I can watch Pokemon with my family and offer it to people who will never bother to log on.
Edit: OMFG I moved them back into individual folders and they work now. 6 hours of videos and tutorials and not a single thing saying they absolutely have to be in their own folders or it won’t work. edit unclear, brain stuck in toaster
Edit 2: turns out, Radarr can’t find movies at /movies/movie.mkv and needs /movies/folder/movie.mkv. Now Radarr can import movies but all other problems persist.
Perhaps DockGE would help with your flow, it’s a docker web UI for managing services (in a basic manner, think a basic Portainer). It creates the separate folders for you, all you need to do is give the stack a name and plop the compose file in there. I use it to manage containers on all my VMs, mainly to have an easy overview in the browser but also to avoid issues like yours.
I’m actually running portainer at the moment and it’s been an absolute lifesaver in this nonsense. I’m not great in terminal and it helps me get the syntax right. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to do much to whip the arrs into working.
Haven’t tried it myself but can you run Nginx or Traefik in it, or would it give issues connecting to other containers?
As much trouble as any regular docker setup I reckon. It’s not doing anything special, just a nice front-end showing the logs, the compose and some details about the different services.
And many of my compose files in there make use of nginx, but the services nginx reference are all inside the same compose.