HolyArrs - 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server
Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server
HolyArrs replaces six separate media management apps with one lightweight self-hosted solution. At just 15 MB, it handles your shows, movies, and music: browse like a streaming app, request titles, and it searches your Sources, picks the best release, sends it to your downloader, and files it in your library. It works with qBittorrent, SABnzbd, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and more. Setup takes two minutes with Docker, and you can migrate from Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, and others without losing your setup. One login, one port, one place to look.
Six apps to watch a show. Now it's one.
- wes-k
Will check this out after it becomes more stable.
I literally, just this last weekend, finally bit the bullet and created my own media server. I had been dragging my feet, not wanting to deal with the complexity of configuring and setting things up. With codex, I had it do the leg work. Even made a snazzy website as homebase and an admin panel with links to every service, easy invite creation, and some basic usage & storage monitoring.
Been a blast using codex to configure and design my media server!
That said, the many logins do annoy me! My main friction though is around a single client my friends & family can use that brings things closer to the netflix experience. Currently evaluating moonfin, so they can request and watch within the same client. Seerr still seems to be best for requests, but moonfin will get the job done.
My list so far: Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Seerr, Wizarr, Cleanuparr, Jellyfin, Moonfin.
Also using codex to setup the same box for home automation and comfyui. Fun times!
- tjohnell
I've seen multiple "consolidate all the arr" attempts over the years. None prevail. Not saying this one won't, but something tells me it's going to peter out and be abandonware. It's incredible how sticky the OG arr apps have been to be honest. Likely because they are extremely stable and well-integrated.
- utopiah
FWIW
ls -lh /usr/sbin/minidlnad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 323K Feb 21 2025 /usr/sbin/minidlnad
and a lot of TV, video projectors, etc support DLNA out of the box, if they don't add VLC and you are good to go.
- lbrito
>"A normal media server runs six apps: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr and Seerr."
Here I was thinking people just used Plex! No idea what any of those are
- ZenoArrow
> AI or MCP features. Not in 1.0.
Why would you even want this, what desirable features could you add by adding AI?
- 0xAFFFF
People really need to stop thinking that their vibe coded app developed in a day is something the world needs to be made aware of. That's insulting really.
- FabCH
Ok, I'm a potential user, but what is your long term plan for following the scene and making sure HolyArrs supports the wild west of the grey area content acquisition?
Things like parsing the file name for format, group, language, repack etc...
- Oxodao
I'd love something like this, and i'll maybe try it, but last time we had something like this it turned pretty quickly to a shitshow.
Though I like the choice of go. The heavy c# stack other have is quite resource intensive
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rckopd/huntarr...