Selfhosted

Look out, I'm about to mention AI.

I had most arr things I wanted setup already. I have a putio stack mostly.

I decided to refactor the setup a while ago, shit was always breaking, and I just didn't want to put time into it.

So I launched Claude code, started a server-manager repo, and about 3 hours later, I had a EXCELLENT setup, all my fave release groups on priority, resolutions I want, it found ally Plex media, stuck it in sonarr, reccomended I start a trakt account, which I did, and now every upcoming scifi, fantasy, horror, action flick gets picked up automatically, it created its own putio uploader, and downloader, I bought filebot on it's reccomendation, and now all my media is renamed perfectly, I signed up for subs, I have subtitles everywhere. My audiobook library was imported, and it figured out what audiobooks I buy and what I don't, gave me a stern talking to about piracy, then I launched opencode and used grok4 to process my audible books to remove drm. (Grok really doesn't say no to many requests. However fuck Elon, so i don't use it more often.) Claude setup a docker environment with qbitorrent, with a deadmans switch, it will only connect via my VPN. So I could get rid of putio, which I won't.

I asked for monitoring and it spun up uptimekuma. In the middle of the project we decided to use coolify toanage everything. Again, it set the whole f'n thing up. This was the only thing I had to finalize, UNTIL I found out there's an API, so Claude read the API docs and now runs my coolify platform.

Honestly the afternoon was fun as hell, claude-code just set everything up, I had to guide/steer it some, but it was able to read documentation on its own and tighten up my setup. It even optimized my docker to properly use my gpus. Now I have comfyui, ollama +gptoss, also running on my network with very little effort.

I have a max subscription, and after paying a few bills without it, I won't go back. This setup burned a lot of tokens. It easily would've been a few hundred if I'd payed API rates. I think however a pro account would have enough tokens in a day to do something similar. You don't even need Opus, Sonnet did fine.

So, if your stuck, get you a Claude pro subscription, hook up Claude code, and see if it can help you.

I use Claude almost all day, so this was pretty easy, but I cannot stress enough how much I dislike administering my media setup. Now I have a Claude custodian.