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Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by ad_on_is@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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 https://github.com/ad-on-is/odin-server

Odin TV App https://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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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whats the main difference with Jellyfin?

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This only works with a paid pirate service.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 39 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it'd be unfair not to mention them)?

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So it’s like a torrent streaming service?

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can this play back my local media collection or is it just a debrid proxy frontend?

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no local media collection.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well that's disappointing

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I know, right? I too wanted to watch your local media!

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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)

[–] virku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is RD and AD?

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

RealDebrid and AllDebrid

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

So are you leaching and not seeding?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[+] ad_on_is@lemm.ee -11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Jellyfin uses the *arr suite, but Odin relies on a debrid service. The benefit is that nothing is hoarded on the device itself.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 31 points 2 years ago

What? Jellyfin doesn't need any "suite"? You can use it with your collection obtained whatever way.

[–] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So it doesn't download for later use? It just becomes a proxy system to stream from the debrid service?

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Exactly. It gets the streaming links instantly from the debrid service.

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

You keep saying "hoarding" but I think you mean collecting/protecting in many cases.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, if the ones and zeros arent in your drive, it can disappear at any point from the internet.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Thank goodness bladders don't require others for the flow of our own individual streams!

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people just don't want to store anything on their devices for whatever reason.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Is it possible to self host a debrid?

[–] dugmeup@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

Nice!

[–] Spyder@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Is there any way this could be modified for indie musicians to move away from bigTech? FOSS Spotify alternative with bitcoin ?