Free Home Movie Entertainment System
Since I only occasionally watch movies on weekends, I don’t want to have fixed subscription fees across many different streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, HBO... Keywords: ai.
Since I only occasionally watch movies on weekends, I don’t want to have fixed subscription fees across many different streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, HBO... Therefore, having a solution that lets me proactively store my favorite movies and stream them to large-screen devices like TVs, computers, iPads, and phones is a necessary need. Or simply knowing when a movie is released so I can watch it on those services.
If you want to watch movies anytime, anywhere, a Home media server will require knowledge about opening ports or using tunnels. I have a guide in the article Tunnels – Access via domain without opening a public port
In this article we will focus on building this service inside the LAN.
Required services
| Serices | Description |
|---|---|
Plex | Create your own home movie server, watch on all devices |
qBittorrent | Download movies via torrent |
Radarr | Manage standalone movies |
Sonarr | Manage TV series |
Prowlarr | Will find download sources for the two above |
Bazarr | Automatically download Vietnamese and English subtitles by movie name |
How to install and configure
Automatically search for movies and subtitles available on the internet
Automatically download your favorite movies
To share with friends so you can watch movies together, you will need hardware with stronger encoding capabilities, allowing streaming at multiple resolutions at the same time. If you only use it within the LAN, that’s not necessary, so you can use hardware from small embedded computer boards like this and it will be sufficient. If you have higher demands, please choose a more powerful hardware platform.