arrstack
Single-binary TUI installer that sets up and auto-wires a 12-service media stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Bazarr+, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, Tdarr, Trailarr, FlareSolverr) on a clean Linux host in about 90 seconds.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
arrstack
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Media Server
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- adroitband reviewed arrstack
A solid alternative to DietPi in certain scenarios. DietPi has long been an excellent choice for running home media servers on single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi. However, on standard desktop or NAS hardware, arrstack may be the better option. Setting up a full *arr stack with around a dozen Docker containers on an UnRaid NAS can easily take an entire weekend for an average user like myself. By comparison, on the same hardware, it took me about 30 minutes to install a minimal Linux...
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What is arrstack?
Spinning up a self-hosted media stack is a click-fest. You write the compose file. Then you open 10 admin panels, click through auth prompts, paste API keys between tabs, add root folders in Sonarr, paste the same paths into Radarr, add Prowlarr as an indexer source, create download categories in qBittorrent, sync them back to Sonarr, add Bazarr+ as a Sonarr connection, point Jellyseerr at Jellyfin, accept the TLS cert, wait, retry, realize you forgot FlareSolverr, start again.
TRaSH-Guides has an excellent writeup of what "correct" looks like. Following it by hand takes most of a Saturday, and any mistake shows up two weeks later when a release fails to hardlink and your seed ratio falls off a cliff.
arrstack runs that Saturday for you. It ships as a single self-contained Linux binary (~100 MB, Bun runtime bundled), asks you a handful of questions in a TUI wizard, writes a TRaSH-compliant compose file, and calls every service's API at boot time to finish the wiring. Re-run the wizard later to add a drive or widen your language profile, it extends what is there instead of starting over.
Comments and Reviews
A solid alternative to DietPi in certain scenarios. DietPi has long been an excellent choice for running home media servers on single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi. However, on standard desktop or NAS hardware, arrstack may be the better option. Setting up a full *arr stack with around a dozen Docker containers on an UnRaid NAS can easily take an entire weekend for an average user like myself. By comparison, on the same hardware, it took me about 30 minutes to install a minimal Linux distribution (I went with Debian) on a virtual machine—my first one—and another 30 minutes to get arrstack up and running. I plan to keep both setups running for now, but I suspect I may eventually remove the *arr Docker containers and let the VM do the *arr stuff while the unraid OS does everything else. Disclosure: this review is original content from a real person who likes free software, but was edited by AI for clarity.