I torrent to my laptop to watch films and shows (VPN with a killswitch). Want a dedicated setup so bought a Raspberry Pi 4b thinking of KODI setup. Is KODI the way to go, or is there a better way to stream or download movies via the Raspbery Pi4? What can you suggest for my home-made box to replace Disney, Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.? Looking for safe pointers and hopefully can search for the “how to” parts if needed.
I can only suggest jellyfin. It is lightweight and can do in-house and outside streaming as well.
Thanks for this - have had a look at the link and it seems just right! Very grateful.
My setup here: a headless RPI4, running :
- RPI OS lite;
- a transmission server so I can add torrents from my computer, or phone using a browser;
- a VPN running all the time;
- a Jellyfin server.
On my TV and other devices, I’m running a Jellyfin client. My experience with Plex is not as good as with Jellyfin, as Plex struggles to play some MKV files.
If you just want to stream, get an Android box / Google TV with Stremio + Realdebrid. No storage needed, no *arr, no torrents, no VPN, just easy as.
Personally I use Kodi, I stream eveything and enable downloads for when I’m travelling.
My setup:
Addons = Seren / Fen
Real-Debrid account. Better high quality buffer free torrent streaming.
And Trakt to keep a track of TV shows.
I can recommend the dietpi OS; it is a minimal os that comes with a package manager for installing containers for things like radarr, sonarr, deluge, and jellyfin, which will allow you to download/watch movies(find on radarr, download with deluge, watch on jellyfin) and tv shows (find on sonarr, download with deluge, watch on jelyfin) in a fairly autonomous way. Its a bit of setup if you havent done it before it might not be for you but once its running its fairly seamless.
I have a very similar setup, but I recently switched to using CasaOS on top of the DietPi. It comes with docker compose presets for all the arr apps, and also creates a homescreen with icons for all apps. I was doing this using a bunch of different services before, but CasaOS bundles it all together.
