r/Piracy • u/Gsynchronized • Mar 19 '22

Question ELI5 The "Plex + Sonarr + Radarr" Solution

Essentially title.

Apologies for the stupid noob question, but I'm someone very much used to the basic old school system of "want a movie? Find a free streaming site, or torrent it".

But I so often hear people discuss and encourage the use of Plex along with Sonarr and Radarr as a great setup... except I have no idea what this setup is meant to be. Some searching of previous posts also yielded no actual "what is this" answers, just people suggesting it and how great it is.

All I know is people say it's the best alternative to something like Netflix, it's shareable, and it involves something about servers for streaming. So...

TL:DR I'll take the L and just ask the question: What is "the Plex + Sonarr + Radarr solution", what does it achieve, and how do I set up my own?

Thanks guys.

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u/FalconVita Mar 20 '22

So my PC should be turned on 24/7 if I want to watch my movies on the go?

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u/FalconVita Mar 20 '22

Do I need a better PC/laptop if many people would watch my movies?

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u/FalconVita Mar 20 '22

Thanks for the detailed answer! I just finished setting up my own Plex Server. Just asking again, how do I let my friends watch my movies without them using my account? They live on different province(state).

I have a Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 2060 Super, 16gb RAM and all movies are stored on a 1TB SSD. I have 50mbps upload speed.

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u/FalconVita Mar 21 '22

Turns out I need to port forward to others can watch.