21 yo, cis-male, bisexual. Heavy tech nerd for servers and information security
I haven’t seen it mentioned, but a great option that I’ve used a few times before is Mirotalk. There’s two versions, Mirotalk SFU and Mirotalk P2P.
Mirotalk SFU uses a central server where your stream can be sent to, and you’ll receive others’ streams from that same server. Mirotalk P2P, as expected is P2P with WebRTC, and doesn’t require a server (other than the website your watching from). The only downside with the P2P is that it doesn’t handle a lot of users in a single call very well.
Mirotalk is open source, doesn’t require an account, and has nice features like built-in chat, whiteboard, file uploads, and the ability to play YouTube videos directly from the web client.
For Mirotalk SFU, you can either use the demo instance, or you can host your own server to use.
I use Alpine Linux for my home server. I chose it cause it runs very well on my raspberry pi 4 NAS/media server. I can leave it running for a long time, and I won’t have issues with it. Pretty easy to install applications and run docker containers. Its very lightweight and efficient. The only issues I have with it is that sometimes packages won’t be available for me due to running an ARM CPU. Usage is slightly different than something like Ubuntu, slightly different commands and such. You’ll also have to install all the applications You’ll need. I only need SSH access to it, i don’t have a GUI or desktop for it.
Prowlarr and Jellyseerr are two tools you use together.
Prowlarr is an index manager, for Radarr and Sonarr. With Radarr and Sonarr, generally you’d have to provide individual indexes (in the case of torrents, trackers) for each individual instance of Radarr and Sonarr. With Prowlarr, you basically have a central database of trackers, organized by tags (like movies or TV shows), that will then feed that information to Radarr and Sonarr.
Jellyseerr is like the requesting interface. If you want to watch a show or movie, you place a request with Jellyseerr, that gets sent over to Radarr or Sonarr, and then either instance will then search for the content using the indexes provided by Prowlarr. Radarr or Sonarr will then begin the download, and then organize it within your media files.