I am looking for a plug-in for media requests from users.

My users suck, and won’t tell me if I’m missing stuff they want, or my copies are bad (with a few very helpful exceptions) so I’m looking for some sort of integration that like tells me what they are looking for, or makes it easy for them to ping me a suggestion to add/fix. I don’t watch most of my library, so this is a big concern.

Most of my users don’t know my number or email because they are my partner’s friends and I don’t use the email address my server is tied to, for security (nor are messages usually passed to me on the rare occasion they are sent to him). So “have them text you” isn’t really a good option, and it’s enough of a struggle to get them to use it in the first place that adding another standalone app isn’t going to do it either.

Preferably I would like something my end users don’t have to do anything to access, maybe a few button presses in their search interface? Like “search returns no results, request this content” as a button maybe?

Does anything like that exist?

    • iesouEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Second this. It requires a domain though like other request services, since it’s a website. The real nice thing is that it integrates with services like radar and sonarr so if you approve the request you don’t have to manually go find the new item.

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That is another thing I’m hoping to set up after October when my time becomes available to me alone, so good to know.

        I’m very much a self-hosting noob, despite having lifetime Plex for like 8 years (so probs 10 yrs total?)

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      So just to make sure I understand correctly, this would be something I would need to send them the credentials for, or link to, and have them do an extra login?

      If that’s correct, what happens after that?

      • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You send them your Ombi webpage link, so ombi.cheapdomain.net, then they just log in with their Plex credentials.

        Cloudflare zero trust tunnels are an easy way to connect your ombi localhost port to the domain with HTTPS/SSL.

        Porkbun are giving away .app & .dev domains for free atm.

        I also suggest trying to learn Docker.

        • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Thank you for replying! I was nervous about posting this in the first place because it’s likely I could find some answers online, but maybe not the right ones? I did a google search (even +Reddit) and the results were 4+ yrs old, which may easily have no bearing on now, with the lack of official plugin support.

          I don’t mean to sound dismissive, so I hope I don’t, but I have very little idea what you are talking about, so I’m going to need to do some looking. I’m very much a noob with this stuff, but I aim to not be! 😁 it’s so hard to figure out where to start, especially without specific use-cases, so thank you for the help! I legitimately appreciate your time.

          I think I’ll start with docker. I know nothing about it.

          I’ve seen a lot in the self-hosting communities about it, and I hope to expand my self-hosting to cover all major “cloud” services eventually (media with Plex, games, pictures, audiobook/podcast, comics/ebooks, etc) so probably a good place to start. My present setup doesn’t seem to need docker, and I’m not really sure of its value, but I see stuff about it a lot, so ima do some digging :)

          I’m not in IT or anything, I’m just some rando with a spare pc hanging around to work with. My self-hosting is a passion project for mostly myself, but also a few friends I care about who “don’t do algorithmic media” for various reasons, so I’m learning a ton to help serve them an internet they can enjoy. And that’s good, probably.

          I am not certain I’ll stay on windows (was on Ubuntu 18.xx, but my 2014 mobo bit it hard and I replaced the unit entirely with off-the-shelf windows pc to host Plex until I fix my Linux beast. Omg the folder management and rename utilities on Linux made managing Plex so smooth!)

          • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Docker took me a while to learn so it might be something to work up to, it’s just that transfering services to docker after installing can be complicated.

            I’ve been using komga for comics.

            I mentioned Cloudflare because it’s unwise to open the port for each service due to security, Cloudflare handles a lot of the security for you, which still needs you to limit stuff like country IP etc.

            Ombi is rarely easy to setup without as much knowledge, I did it before learning docker, but it also needs sonar & radarr which are more services.