Automation
The Complete Plex, Arr, and Tdarr Homelab Media Automation Series
A series wrap-up linking the complete Plex, Seerr, Tracearr, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, SABnzbd, Tdarr, storage, GPU, reverse proxy, backup, and monitoring homelab guides. Rights and lawful use: Follow this series only for media you are permitted to obtain, organize, back up, transcode, and play. Request automation and indexer integration do not create permission to acquire, […]
How Seerr and Tracearr Fit Into a Plex, Arr, and Tdarr Homelab
A detailed architecture guide showing how Seerr request intake and Tracearr playback analytics complete a Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, SABnzbd, and Tdarr homelab workflow.
Seerr Setup Guide: Media Requests for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Sonarr, and Radarr
A practical Seerr setup guide for adding a private media request layer to Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby while handing approved movies and shows to Radarr and Sonarr safely.
Monitoring and Health Checks for a Plex and Arr Homelab
Monitor the outcomes that keep a media stack useful: mounted storage, free space, successful imports, playable files, healthy queues, available transcode resources, current certificates, and restorable backups. Start with one daily report and a few actionable alerts before building a large dashboard. Rights and lawful use: Monitor only systems and media workflows you administer, and […]
Implementing AgenticOps Safely: Human Approval, Audit Trails, and Rollback
Agentic network operations need guardrails: approved action classes, human review, role limits, dry runs, rollback plans, and audit trails before any production change.
Building a Network Digital Twin Workflow
A network digital twin is useful when it models topology, intent, policy, dependencies, and change impact. Here is a practical workflow for using it safely.
Radarr Import Lists That Do Not Fill Your Library With Junk
Start every new Radarr import list with search on add disabled, a unique source tag, the intended root folder and quality profile, and a manual review. Enable automatic search only after multiple syncs add the titles you actually intend to manage. That one staged workflow prevents most noisy-list failures. Rights and lawful use: A Trakt, […]
Radarr Homelab Setup Guide: Install, Update, Optimize, Lists, and Tdarr Integration
A detailed Radarr homelab setup guide covering install choices, updates, root folders, quality profiles, custom formats, import lists, download clients, Plex visibility, and Tdarr integration.
Sonarr Homelab Setup Guide: Install, Update, Optimize, and Connect to Tdarr
A detailed Sonarr homelab setup guide covering install choices, updates, paths, permissions, quality profiles, indexers, download clients, list behavior, Plex visibility, and Tdarr integration.
Prowlarr Setup Guide: Clean Indexer Management for Sonarr and Radarr
Run Prowlarr on a private management network with persistent configuration, add Sonarr and Radarr by their internal URLs, and sync one tested indexer before enabling broad automation. Let Prowlarr own synced indexer definitions; let Sonarr and Radarr own media decisions, quality rules, download clients, and imports. Rights and lawful use: Configure Prowlarr only for indexers, […]