Yea they announced it months ago, but the first release of seerr just dropped today.

I hate how fragmented they are. I've given up on various guides out there for 'setting up the arr stack' because of getting bogged down in since miniature detail that, IMHO, shouldn't even be a thing. I get that hosting seperate services has advantages. But the disadvantage of giving up on the whole thing because you have to sort out networking and file permission issues between the service that downloads video files over an hour long and the service that downloads video files under an hour outweighs those advantages.

I'll be honest, only the first setup gave me some trouble as I was tackling docker compose too. After you gain familiarity setting up a new arr is basically copying the provided yaml service then filling in the envs with yours

Maybe thats by design. Some sort of gate keeping

Given it's a suite of tools designed specifically to download copyrighted content, why are you surprised that descriptions are coy and elusive?

I agree it took many months to figure out my arr stack and the configuration with API keys and server ip addresses. I used countless resources and guides and it didn't help. Now I can do a fresh install of jellyfin and the arr stack in less than an hour after finally figuring it out but wow was it a hard learning curve. I have paper notes trying to decode which tools does what I was so confused

Media requester for Plex and Jellyfin. But also tells you where things are streaming. A mix between IMDB and JustWatch.

Overseer was for Plex
Jellyseer was for Jellyfin

Now we have Seer one platform to do both.

The fact it recommends popular stuff is a useful addon feature, its a good way to look at what others are watching.

No kidding! Copy and paste the contents of the previous container to a new directory for the new container, sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /path/to/new/directory, docker pull the new image, and Bob's your uncle. I'm so relieved I didn't have to reconfigure all the *arr integrations and whatnot within the web GUI all over again

It's a beautiful UI for requesting content where you don't go into the details of arrs. Great if you have other family members you want to allow to request things.

Also great for finding trending content, ratings, trailers, and also all the work an actor/actress has done.

Yes.

Basically yes. My father can log into Overseer with his Plex account, so no new account and password, and request movies or tv shows which I can approve manually or pre-approve. I don't have to give him admin access to my Sonarr or Radarr and the user interface is quite friendly.

sonarr and radarr only have support for a single account wich among other things exposes api keys.

Seerr lets you have users with the same login as they use for jellyfin (or plex?) To request content and the server admin can approve or deny rhe request.

I've tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they're popular, but it just never clicked for me.

But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.

That's the nice thing - there's a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what's important.

That said, I don't remember which ones these are, but I think it began with "Sonarr" to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)

This is a requesting client.

What you want is solved by torrenting (and other) clients.

Overseerr required Plex. It was forked into Jellyseerr to allow Emby and Jellyfin accounts. Now Overseerr and Jellyseer merge into one tool called Seerr that combines the features. So no.

No debrid support, this is for connecting to the Arrs services which work for either torrents or usenet.