pcjones
There are indexer specialized in this for almost every language. If you are looking for German dubs by chance send me a message
What you can do is add the eMule download directory as a Usenet Blackhole. You’ll still have to start downloads manually in eMule, but radarr and sonarr will pick them up automatically.
I know this is not exactly what you are looking for, but the Usenet indexer https://scenenzbs.com/ is specialised in German (+ German/English Dual Language) releases. Registration is open. They have a lot of stuff, not everything if it’s older or rare, but enough. For new stuff it’s perfect and there is basically everything.
Let me know if you need help setting it up, this is the best way to get German content if you don’t have access to a private tracker.
PS: If you are looking for a German dual language Radarr/Sonarr setup I made a guide for that (works for public torrent trackers too, but as you said - there isn’t a lot of German content on them): https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language
It really depends on what he needs and want to achieve. I host a Jellyfin (FOSS Plex) instance for me and some friends so I pay around 10€ for a VPS + 50€ per month for 20TB storage at hetzner alone (can’t host at home because I only get 50k upload), but he most like won’t need that if he is just hosting it at home for himself.
So assuming it’s just him or people in his household using what he needs is:
- a PC/Laptop/Homeserver/Raspberry Pi/Toaster with enough storage to host everything
- Free Software: Sonarr & Radarr & SABnzbd to automatically find movies, shows and download them*
- Optional: a free media server like Jellyfin
- A Usenet provider. There is a lot of info on this if you look for it but for a beginner I’d recommend frugal Usenet for 40$ a year if he is mostly downloading new stuff:
https://billing.frugalusenet.com/signup/neQeZxl
If he is also downloading a lot of older (think 10+ years) stuff he should get ewaka for 48€/year (or keep an eye out for the 36€ year deal that pops up sometimes):
https://www.eweka.nl/en/landing/special-deal
- A Usenet indexer. scenenzbs.com costs 15-20€/year and is THE must have indexer for German content right now. Additionally, Drunkenslug(private, but lot’s of invites going around) or nzbgeek (public) are great for english content and also do have some German stuff. They also cost 15-20€/year. To start sceneNZBs should be enough though.
Let me know if you/he needs more info or guides, but like I said it really depends on what his setup is supposed to be in the end
*edit: of course you can also skip Sonarr & Radarr and just search on scenenzbs.com by hand.
Can you share your dockerfile if you have one? Don’t forget to remove personal information before
Since you are looking for German movies you might be interested in my German DL Sonarr & Radarr guide:
https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language