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Sonarr Radarr qBittorrent Jellyfin

Sonarr lets you 'subscribe' to TV shows. Radarr lets you 'subscribe' to movies. They grab the movie/TV Show as soon as they're available and match the quality profile you choose. They find the torrent (searching on sites that you've configured) and send it to qBittorrent. Once the torrent is finished it downloads metadata, formats everything and puts it into a media folder structure that Jellyfin can read. They then poke Jellyfin to tell it to update it's library with the newly downloaded content.

Jellyfin is a media player, it can be accessed by a web interface or you can install Jellyfin apps which exist on basically every platform.

You can host all of this at your house or you can host it on a seedbox (I'm currently using Ultra.cc). The Seedbox provides you with a very fast connection for accessing bittorrent (50+ Gb) and 20TB of upload bandwidth per month. The seedbox I'm using doesn't count your Jellyfin usage (or downloading via the FTP/SFTP server) towards your bandwidth so you can stream as much as you'd like or download the files to your home media storage or both. They have different levels of storage (my ~$35/mo plan has 8TB of storage)

A seedbox also lets you join private trackers easily (as you can maintain ratio thanks to your massive upload speed and excess bandwidth). Private trackers will generally have torrents on faster hosts so you can download them quickly and the quality/selection can be better.

It's a little bit to get everything setup but once it is setup it basically takes care of itself. I have Ombi installed also, it provides a simple user interface for my non-technical users so that they can add things to Sonarr/Radarr without having to much around with their interfaces.

I have an Arr setup with Plex and it's great. Basically I add a TV series or movie to Sonarr/Radarr, they will then use Prowlarr to find torrent, then it will get sent to my torrent client, and then Plex will eventually show the content. It's one of my favorite things that I have setup.

Kodi and Jellyfin are great alternatives to Plex. Look around a bit.

Real-Debrid is a paid service, but for ~ $3 a month you can get much more reliable results from Kodi and its plugins. Basically it has the torrents downloaded on its servers and sends you a streaming link so you don't need a VPN or anything. Imo its worth it no doubt. Been using it for a few months now worth every penny! Movies/Shows are easy to find in most cases.

For anime i've found it easier to add the shows manually from subsplease or nyaa using the Unchained app on android

I have VLC on my phone and my computer. If I don't need subtitles then I simply use VLC on my phone to cast the video file on my computer to the television.

All devices are on the same network. If the file has subtitles I need then I use Videostream but that requires some additional downloading to get it to work on the network so I only use that when subtitles are absolutely needed.

As a further question to OP's above- does anyone have any recommendations for sites that have movies/tv that are in decent quality (1080p) but aren't necessarily blu ray quality so that I can fit more on a HDD? For instance, I want to download certain films in 4k that I absolutely love but for stuff that I'm indifferent on or I don't need to be in 4k (sitcoms like the office) I want them to take as little space as possible

Stremio! it's like the netflix experience - but better. Pick from some of the free addons, setup a Google drive addon or link it to real debrid.

In terms of an app to stream on Android TV, I currently use OnStream: https://onstream.to I would recommend installing it on phone, then create an account, then link it to TV app if you want sync and watch list.

For sources, as others recommended, use Prowlarr. I am using all the free public indexers along with Radarr and Sonarr.