You need to DITCH Overseerr and Migrate to Seerr

In this video, we're going to be talking about one of my favorite applications that I have running in my home lab. Something one of the first things I actually installed, and that is Overseer. And the reason we're talking about Overseer here is because they actually did a uh a migration, a merger, a name change to Simply Seer. You can see here on Reddit, there was a name change not too many days ago. And the main reason for this is the teams behind Overseer and Jelly Seer. Jelly Searer being the fork of Overseer that works specifically with Jellyfin and Overseer being a Plex application or third party utility. They merge together. So now you only got one thing and you can use it crossplatform with Plex and Jellyfin. We're going to be migrating my old overseer instance over to Seer and then just kind of again overviewing the application if you've never really seen it before. But before we start all that, we do need to thank the sponsor of today's video, Surf Shark. 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As easy as switching out the image adding in it true and changing the container name. Everything else will work completely fine. All the names, database stuff and everything will be done automatically. So, it's really easy. If I scroll down here, we could see Windows building it from source, which if you are doing the uh lxc, so the uh helper script for this, you might need to do this one right here. We also have kubernetes. We have nyx aur true naz. Some of the paths you're going to have to change. And we have unrade right here. I'm in unrade, so we're going to do that. Now, Unrade is basically the exact same as Docker, but you can see here we are going to have to change our directories. So, if you're on Docker, what we're going to do first is spin down our actual instance here. So, you can see I have mine right here. So, I'm going to stop this. If you're asking why I'm on Unrade at the moment, I was just kind of playing around with it, testing it out. They've done a lot of really nice updates as of recent, so I wanted to kind of give it a shot. Now, in the guide, it specifies to use the terminal instead of just renaming it. So, I'm going to do that, but I don't see why uh simply renaming the folder won't do the same thing. But let's go over here. We are going to open up the terminal here and then drop this on in. I'm pretty sure my uh app data overseer all this is correct. If you have a different name for your app data folder, do change that here. But if I hit enter, we should be good to go. So now, actually, let's just close out the terminal here and then go over to shares and then open up app data. And you can see we copied that there. So we have the seer directory. So once we get all this spun up, we could probably just delete our overseer directory. So we've done that and now the next thing is to set the permissions. So what we're going to do is go to the unrated installation guide. And it says start at step two. So it wants us to change the permissions to a,000,000. I think mine are at 1,100 which is the default user group, but it does mention that this is what they prefer. So we're going to do what they want. Let's open up that terminal again and then paste this on in. Got to fix this real quick. So now it is belonging to the thousand,000 group. So from there, we're going to open up overseer here. And I'm just going to go ahead and edit this directly. So we're going to change the name. We're going to change this to seer. Our repository right here, we're going to want to change this as well. This right here is the new repository. Drop that on in. Get rid of the space. Bridge is good. Bash is good. The web UI is going to stay the same. Under more settings, we have our config path. We have a, 100. I'm going to change this to a,000. And there are some other variables that we're going to want to add. We have this extra parameter of init restart unless stopped. Uh, to do this, I'm going to have to go to advanced view. So, there we go. We have our basically everything, extra parameters right here. So, drop that in. And let's change our icon URL as well. We got the icon URL right here. Give that a copy. Drop that on in. And let's make sure everything else looks good. So we have our host and container port. We have our path. So we have app config and mount overseer. So that is right except for I am going to want to change the name of this from overseer to simply seer. Just like that. And additionally, let's click edit on this because the container path is not config. It is in fact app config. So for slashapp config just like that. Let's save those changes. Go down. Everything else looks good. Let's hit apply. And hopefully everything just works how it's supposed to. Which it looks like the command finished successfully. So let's hit done and give this page a refresh on my local server. And look at that. It's working. Some of the images aren't there, but I'm pretty sure that's going to be fine. So, now that I know that worked, we're going to go back over to shares, go into app data, and we're going to delete that old app data folder. So, we have overseer right here, and we have seer right there. But we delete this one and hit start. Get rid of that. There we go. Sweet deal. It all works. You can see also there's a checking migration. So, they have a whole migration uh manager built in there. But basically, you can see overseer stable. We're now on 3.1. We're good to go and everything should just work in settings. We still have everything all set up. Which, by the way, if you've never set this up before, the whole kind of point of this is to work in conjunction with uh Servar and Radar, which are media organization tools. So, what you do is you go over here to services. When you first install it, it will take you through this whole setup process. But you could see I have my services right here in with the 1080p profile. So when I use this to request media for or if somebody on my server requests a movie, I know, hey, they want the 1080p movie, so I'll go and buy a DVD and rip it and put it on there. But it's really easy and you can add multiple servers. So if you have a separate radar server specifically for like 4K movies, that's something you could do. Over here, you have the option to set up Plex and Tatuli, which I never noticed this. Bet your watch history. I have a Tatuli instance spun up. So that might be something I dive into. Under general, we have the name, the application URL, and a whole bunch of different stuff. We have our users here. So I generally just set it up so the users themselves are whoever I have on my Plex server. So I'll blur out this probably, but you can see I have a couple different people that come in here and uh request media. You can import Plex users. So, actually, if I do this real quick, I'm missing quite a few people since I've done this last. So, we can import just like that. And now everybody has access. And of course, you could create local users if you don't want to do it that way. We have issues here. No issues, which is always good. You can set up a block list, so you can block specific media that you don't want to show up. We have requests. So, you can see u somebody's requested the floor, which is a um I think some sort of game show. I could approve that and then that will get added automatically to sonar. So this just gives a really nice UI for those who aren't like managing your server to go in find and request media. And when I say a good UI, I definitely mean it. Because over here you go to discover, you can see the recently added stuff, watch lists, but what really makes this special like if I go to movies for example, is all the filtering stuff. So you can see this is like the most popular kind of movies at the moment. But if I go to active filters here, I can go by basically any variable or filter that you can think of. So we have the release dates, the studio that made it, genres, keywords. My personal favorite is down here for the streaming services. So some streaming services make better content than others. For example, I tend to like a lot of the HBO content. So, I could select HBO and then go to a certain rating. So, anything with a seven or higher. And then make sure it has a good amount of votes. And then I'd go and then I would see only banger movies. I've seen most of these and most of these are absolute bangers. So, that's just a really good way to actually find and discover content. And kind of the same thing with shows. If I do the same thing like um HBO has to be a seven or higher with fair chunk of ratings. You could see we got some good shows here. Particularly some of my favorites if you're curious. We got the Sopranos right there. Succession is good. Gossip Girl is one of my wife's favorites. I'm not seeing it on here, but like uh Deadwood, Peaky Blinders, we got Silicon Valley right there. Some good stuff. And then of course if we go to discover, it's just kind of a more generic. You can see trending, your watch list, movies that are popular. So, just a little bit of everything with a nice kind of pretty interface that people who aren't familiar with managing sonar radar servers in general are probably going to have a really good time using. So, that is about it. I'll finish off this video by heading on over to the GitHub, going under my home lab, and then going under media, and we are going to update our compose yaml. I'm going to put the um actual CR service directly in here. You can see right here I have jelly sear commented out because I don't know if people want to use plex or jellyfin whatever. So I am going to make this just part of this stack. So do note that if you're somebody who uses my docker compost stacks here which by the way if you want to check out this uh compose yaml and this whole kind of media setup here I'll go through update it before we re release this video for seer but this is some good stuff here best practices for general media organization setting up network shares onto uh VMs or however you want to set it up user permissions so using thousand how to do all that setting up the docker compose with environmental al variables, the actual uh VPN setup, which this video is sponsored by Surf Shark. So, if you use Surf Shark, the uh Gluten Docs has a uh if you go to the provider page here, you can see all kinds of VPNs, but go to Surf Shark here and you can set it up with that if you would like to. I do hope you have an absolutely beautiful day and goodbye.

Go to https://surfshark.com/techhut or use code TECHHUT at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Overseerr and Jellyseerr have merged into a single app called Seer, and in this video we're migrating my existing Overseerr instance over and taking a look at what makes this tool so great for managing your media server requests. Full Writeup: https://techhut.tv/seerr-overseerr-migration Compose files: https://github.com/TechHutTV/homelab/tree/main/media Whether you're running Plex or Jellyfin, Seer gives your users a clean and beautiful way to discover and request content that ties right into your Sonarr and Radarr setup. We also go over the Docker Compose stack so you can get this spun up nice and easy. 0:00 - Overseerr is Now Seer 0:53 - Sponsor: Surfshark 2:19 - How to Migrate from Overseerr to Seer 3:12 - Migration on Unraid 4:50 - Updating the Container Settings 6:23 - Verifying the Migration Worked 6:56 - Seer Overview & Sonarr/Radarr Setup 8:09 - Managing Users & Requests 8:52 - Discover & Content Filtering 10:47 - Updating the Docker Compose Stack 12:03 - Outro