from ad_on_is@lemm.ee to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 Jan 19:13
https://lemm.ee/post/51404736
Hey, I just published a self-hosted streaming service, it’s called Odin. Odin comes in two parts, a server and an Android app. Both can be found on GitHub, with their install instructions.
Odin Server github.com/ad-on-is/odin-server
Odin TV App github.com/ad-on-is/odin-tv
Motivation:
I’ve used many of the readily available apps in the past, and they all came with their pros and cons. I was mostly annoyed by the fact, that most of them use their own server-backend, somewhere. So each time, the app stops working, I didn’t know whether their server just crashed, or the developer abandoned the app and I had to look for something else. I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to “the highest bidder”. Oh, and I also disliked the UI of these apps.
That’s why I started working on Odin. In fact, I’ve been using it for almost 4 years now, and did a LOT of iterations during these years. Now, I’m more than happy with the end result, and wanted to share it with the world.
The main features of Odin are:
- Discovering movies and TV shows
- A nice and beautiful UI
- Customizable Trakt lists
- Multi-User support
I hope you like it!
Oh, and feel free to submit any feature requests or issues on GitHub. If you want, you can star the repo, so I know there’s actual interest in the project.
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Interesting. Will have to take a look at it later. I currently use Jellyfin and don’t have many issues. The only thing that might be a pain point is tuner support. I didn’t see anything mentioned. But looks nice otherwise. And intrigued to see its largely in Go.
Jellyfin uses the *arr suite, but Odin relies on a debrid service. The benefit is that nothing is hoarded on the device itself.
So it doesn’t download for later use? It just becomes a proxy system to stream from the debrid service?
Exactly. It gets the streaming links instantly from the debrid service.
What do you mean jellyfin uses the *are suite?
I have Jellyfin with any media in different directories as long as I try to match the format the documents mention.
So, as long as I can get the media in any way I can just put it in any directory and it’ll be added to the library.
Is it similar with Odin? Or does it directly fetch the media from where you want to download it?
It doesn’t download anything and also does not fetch any local media. It uses jackett to scrape sites like 1337x.to for magnets, sends these magnets to realdebrid/alldebrid and gets a streamable link back which you can watch instantly.
By arr-suite… I meant the automated setups that people do, to get stuff downloaded directly into the movies/shows folders, hoarding huge MKV files, etc… Sorry for the confusing wording.
You keep saying “hoarding” but I think you mean collecting/protecting in many cases.
Yeah, if the ones and zeros arent in your drive, it can disappear at any point from the internet.
I frequently want to watch things that aren’t the latest blockbuster with hundreds of seeders.
If there’s only one person seeding and they aren’t on 24/7 this whole flow falls apart.
Thank goodness bladders don’t require others for the flow of our own individual streams!
Some people just don’t want to store anything on their devices for whatever reason.
And that’s fine. Totally fine. I wouldn’t use judgemental words or words with a negative connotation to describe their lack of storage because I feel that’s an absolutely fine stance to have.
What? Jellyfin doesn’t need any “suite”? You can use it with your collection obtained whatever way.
Been thinking about swapping away from Plex when I move to New hardware later this month
If I’m reading all this right sounds like Overseerr and Plex both can be replaced with this, as well as a unified app for the two?
If so I’m def getting this installed and testing it out this weekend, my goal for a while has been to get the rest of my family into my streaming ecosystem but having to use 2 whole apps (Plex and Overseerr on a website) is enough to scare them away despite using 6 apps currently
I don’t use the arr-suite myself, but I think you’re on point. Since It doesn’t download anything, and gets the streams directly from RD or AD, there’s no need for overseer.
You .ight be careful though, because RD doesn’t allow using their service from multiple locations at the same time (whatever thsat means)
What is RD and AD?
RealDebrid and AllDebrid
I think to most people asking how this works, the answer is, you connect it to AllDebrid/RealDebrid paid accounts, and that’s the contents you stream. Hence it’s a streamer system for a paid service. I think this is the most important clarification needed here.
Can this play back my local media collection or is it just a debrid proxy frontend?
no local media collection.
Well that’s disappointing
I know, right? I too wanted to watch your local media!
how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it'd be unfair not to mention them)?
It doesn’t. It’s nothing like any of these two. They provide local media content, Odin on the other hand streams media directly provided by the debrid service.
So, no downloading and hoarding involved.
So it’s like a torrent streaming service?
I think to most people asking how this works, the answer is, you connect it to AllDebrid/RealDebrid paid accounts, and that’s the contents you stream. Hence it’s a streamer system for a paid service. I think this is the most important clarification needed here.
Whats the main difference with Jellyfin?
This only works with a paid pirate service.
Are you planning on adding support for Premiuimize and Torbox? A lot of people just left Real Debrid (and all other French hosted services) due to France kicking down on piracy. Real Debrid just recently announced they would start to block piracy related content at least.
For the folks confusing this with an alternative to Jellyfin or Plex, I believe this project is more meant to be akin to Stremio, but self-hosted.
Is it possible to self host a debrid?
Is there any way this could be modified for indie musicians to move away from bigTech? FOSS Spotify alternative with bitcoin ?
So are you leaching and not seeding?
I think to most people asking how this works, the answer is, you connect it to AllDebrid/RealDebrid paid accounts, and that’s the contents you stream. Hence it’s a streamer system for a paid service. I think this is the most important clarification needed here.
So it’s like Seren, but for Android instead of Kodi, and with a mandatory server part?
Nice!