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kstack: book: Centerpoint Home Lab chapter: Media Management page: Chapter Introduction tags: [media-management, arr, sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget]

Overview

emptyThis chapter documents the automated media acquisition and management stack — commonly referred to as the *arr ecosystem. These services work together to monitor, search, download, rename, and organise media content automatically, then deliver it to Plex and Jellyfin.

Download Pipeline

Seerr (request) ──► Sonarr / Radarr / Whisparr / LazyLibrarian
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                    Prowlarr (indexer search)
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                    NZBGet (Usenet download)
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          /media/jeeves/1TB_Vol2/downloads  (Ceph OSD — temp)
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                    Post-processing
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            /mnt/Multimedia  (NFS → UnRAID — permanent)
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                    Plex / Jellyfin

Downloads land temporarily on the Ceph OSD volume (nvme2n1, mounted at /media/jeeves/1TB_Vol2) for high-speed write performance. After post-processing, completed media is moved/hardlinked to the UnRAID NFS share at /mnt/Multimedia for permanent storage.

Shared Networks

All services in this chapter are on two Docker networks:

Network Purpose traefik-net Web UI access via Traefik media-network Internal service-to-service communication (no Traefik hop)

media-network allows *arr services to reach each other and NZBGet directly by container hostname without going through Traefik.

Services in This Chapter

Service Container Status Purpose Sonarr sonarr Active TV show monitoring and management Radarr radarr Active Movie monitoring and management Prowlarr prowlarr Active Indexer aggregator for all *arr apps Bazarr bazarr Active Subtitle management NZBGet nzbget Active Usenet download client Whisparr whisparr Active Adult content management (Sonarr fork) LazyLibrarian lazylibrarian Active Book and magazine management Mylar3 mylar3 Active Comics management Audiobookrequest audiobookrequest Active Audiobook request portal Profilarr profilarr Active Quality profile manager for *arr apps Dispatcharr dispatcharr Active IPTV channel and stream dispatcher Pulsarr pulsarr Active Watchlist automation and notifications FlareSolverr flaresolverr Offline Cloudflare bypass proxy for Prowlarr

Last Updated: 2026-06-16

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