Help setting up Jellyfin and Jellyseerr

[potatoking]

Hi all,

First off sorry as I'm sure this has been asked a dozen times before and people may be sick of this being asked, but I am totally pc illiterate and am wanting to move away from streaming sites like Netflix. I've setup Jellyfin and I'm struggling to understand in laymans terms what steps I need to do to setup Jellyseerr on win11.

From what I've understood so far I now need to setup Pi Self Hosted Portainer, and use this to install and manage Dockers for Jellyseerr? Is this right, and is there an ELI5 guide or explanation on how to do these steps? Or, do I have it totally wrong and there's something else I need to do instead?

[gccalvin]

Don't worry about Portainer, that's used to "orchestrate" and manage docker containers. Not needed for Jellyfin or Jellyseerr. Look into Docker Desktop for Windows and/or Docker Compose and follow the instructions provided within Jellyseer's documentation.

[bitmap]

For the love of jebus don't use Docker Desktop. Learn a bit about docker compose and go that route. Portainer can be useful but obfuscates a lot of the mechanics and you learn less about the underpinnings of docker.

[potatoking]

For the love of jebus don't use Docker Desktop. Learn a bit about docker compose and go that route. Portainer can be useful but obfuscates a lot of the mechanics and you learn less about the underpinnings of docker.

Far out people like you give me the shits. People like you have a deep understanding of this, and so you don’t see the need to explain the fundamental basics.

• Why not use Docker Desktop?
  
• Learn a bit about Docker Compose in what regards? What is a bit, and how of a learning a bit relates to setting up Jellyfin and Jellyseerr?
  
• What does Docker Compose do that the Docker Desktop not do?
  

Like I said right off the bat, I am totally pc illiterate and as much as I’ve tried to understand the next steps no one is explaining what these are in laymans terms. It’s all people like you – who expect everyone to have a baseline understanding right off the bat and can’t break it down in plain language.

[bitmap]

Welp, good luck.

[gccalvin]

I would say for now let's not worry about Docker or what a container is. Just know that it is a common method of deploying applications (and server-based applications) because they are easier to work with.

I run my server on Linux, so I'm only familiar with docker compose, and not Docker Desktop, so that's what I will try to assist with. I am by no means an advanced Docker user, I just know enough to run services with it.

For Windows, the easiest way to install docker compose (according to the documentation) is by installing Docker Desktop, even if you don't use it.

1. Follow these instructions to download Docker Desktop / Docker Compose. Should just need to run the setup file.

2. Follow the Windows section on Jellyseerr's documentation. 
    a. On step 1, you can create a volume using the Docker Desktop application or through powershell. To open powershell, press the start button and search for "powershell". This is a command-line interface (CLI) that is needed for various tasks. If it tells you docker is not a recognized command, then Docker might not have installed properly.
    b. Make sure the "Docker Compose" tab is selected on Jellyseerr's documentation. This bit of text is in what is called YAML format, which all docker compose files are. The docker compose file, and this YAML text that makes up the file, are what is used to pull down the Jellyseerr image and configure it properly.
    c. Create a folder within your user directory, and then create a "docker-compose.yaml" file. You can just create a .txt file then rename it in Windows File Explorer.
    d. Copy and paste the text under the "Docker Compose" tab to this file. You may want to change the "TZ=" within the file.
    e. Now you need to open a Powershell window in the directory where the "docker-compose.yaml" file is. You can do this in File Explorer with Shift + Right Click -> Open Powershell window here
    f. Type "docker compose pull jellyseerr" to download the image defined in your docker-compose.yaml
    g. Type "docker compose up -d" to start Jellyseerr. "-d" is used to run Jellyseerr in the background. If you remove "-d" you can see the Jellyseerr output in the terminal.

3. Jellyseerr should now be running on 127.0.0.1:5055, which you navigate to in the web browser. You may need to open firewall ports for access outside of your local computer.

Note: You may need to run Powershell as administrator for some of these commands. I also haven't followed these steps myself, as my setup is on Linux. The main difference being I download docker compose directly, and not docker desktop.

Let me know if you have any questions.