A conversation with Quartermaster developer Lewis Egley about the new Docker companion app, the security model built to survive real scrutiny, and the late nights behind the biggest update the app has ever shipped.
My Dell server is too old for a solid GPU, so a big photo import meant a stuck ML queue. Instead of buying hardware, I use a M4 MacBook Pro to burn through the backlog, plus a Home Assistant automation to flag it next time.
Streamystats is the stats tool for Jellyfin. Watch history, library analytics, AI recommendations, custom watchlists, and a Year in Review that shows you exactly what you watched.
Aggregarr did three jobs on Plex for me: collections, artwork, and home screen rows. Here's how that splits across Posterizarr, Maintainerr, and what Moonfin already does natively, plus where Seerr quietly covers more than I expected.
Plex stores audiobook progress at the track level, splits it by account in ways that don't survive a re-scan, and nobody had built a tool to move it to Audiobookshelf. So I wrote one, hit a couple of bad title-matching bugs along the way, and open sourced it.
WatchState keeps Plex and Jellyfin watch history in sync. Here's how the matching and webhooks actually work, and what skipping the docs on day one cost me.
Let’s start exploring Jellyfin apps for the Apple TV on this one. We’re going to explore Moonfin and it’s moonbase plug-in.
Jellyfin handles music. It just doesn't handle it well. Here's the argument for splitting the stack and running Navidrome as a dedicated music server so Jellyfin never has to touch your music library at all.
Getting Backblaze Personal running on Unraid is pretty straight forward, and it's the cheapest way to get "unlimited" offsite backup for a homelab NAS. Just don't be a jerk about it, backup what you cant replace and call it good.
Is enough, enough to switch to Jellyfin? Lets find out together.
I built my own launcher for docker containers because Heimdall and Homepage didn't quite fit. Here's why rolling my own dashboard was worth it.