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down below in the description for today's video we're going to be covering overseer which is a
request management application it's free and open source it's still pretty new and at the
moment it's considered in beta but by now you've probably heard of it or you've seen
it around here and there and it's meant to be similar in the sense of application like ombi
it's pretty clean i think a lot of people will appreciate the style that it's been designed
with as well as the integrations with plex making a very very smooth experience for those wanting
to try something a little bit different for their quest management software so if you're interested
you want to give it a try or you just want to know more stay tuned and we'll get stuck into it
alright guys so welcome back we haven't really covered requesting software too much here on the
channel yet so overseer is an application that's currently in beta i've used it as a secondary
request system for my members and the feedback has been good there are some features that i wish it
did have but i'll cover those as we go so here we are on the main website which is overseer.dev
that's double e double r and as you can see we've got a nice screenshot here of what it basically
looks like it allows you to request tv shows and movies one of the things i really like about the
application is the built-in recommendation and suggestions system so you know if you don't know
what to pick you don't know what you want to watch it's got those recommendations built in there with
integrations with rotten tomatoes so that you can see all sorts of reviews and things like that
so it kind of moves us towards a more in-depth request system rather than someone just going in
there typing in something and clicking request it can actually be a more of a user experience where
they come in they might browse a little bit stay around see what they find if they like something
then they can request it so it allows them to have a little bit more of a experience if you will when
using the application which i really like it's very easy to request stuff we will get into
this of course here's a quick snapshot of what that looks like so you can put a request through
individual seasons individual episodes using a server you want to run it on you've got the
option there and here's some of their highlights so easy request management okay we've got that
beautiful granular permissions also very important when you have a large user base or member base
and you want to restrict certain things to different people now that's pretty standard but
as long as it's providing us that here that's a very important feature dvr integration so it's
fully integrated with applications like radar and sonar and it supports activity monitoring within
overseer itself now that's pretty cool because rather than just sending the job off to sonar
and radar you can actually track it as well it has 4k support it can scan your plex library so this
is a big tick here for overseer notifications uh the agents included are email discord push bullet
push over slack and telegram so very very useful you can have it hooked up to your discord server
the mobile friendly experience looks great on mobile no argument there and you can apply limits
to requests so in case you're wondering here's a couple of faqs before we get started it's got
multiple languages you can create local users so if you don't want to have to rely on plex you can
just create local users that can log in directly to the app it supports all the new and old plex tv
agents and movie agents it has full support for anime agents as well as we already know it will
allow to use your radar and sonar and you can import your plex users and of course you've got
the installation and documentation here as always i would like to highly recommend that if you enjoy
something that we show here on the channel and you want to help support the developers
please always go to the links that i put up in the description or in the video and show your support
for the developer this is free and open source so someone or some people are taking time to make
this and if you like it help support the project they're offering something really really cool for
no money so that's pretty much the overview guys pretty straightforward let's just get into the
install and we'll start it up and we'll run a end-to-end request and we'll see how that looks
so we've logged into our server we're here on our main server zeus today and the reason why is
because i've already got all the media automation stuff set up i've covered a little bit of that in
one of our previous videos was the utorrent as well as the atomic moves and hard linking video
which we showed you a little bit more in depth with sonar and radar settings so the first thing
we're going to do is head over to our app store if you don't have the app store i have a video
showing how to do that so now that we're in the app store just go ahead and search for overseer
you'll see it pop up here in the autocomplete and we have multiple different options to pick from
pretty straightforward now there's a couple of options i'm going to go for the hot io option
or hoshio is all i call him i think we've become friends now so i'm just going to keep calling him
hoshio until he corrects me otherwise go ahead and click install and click on default now i've got
option here that always turns on advanced view you may not need that so we'll just flick that back to
basic view we've got our networks we want to pick our custom network here so we can
have them all talk to each other and we can have them using their host names you'll see that we
have the pre-configured section here for your app data config goes to config now the sections that
we don't see however are our media library and we need to map that ourselves so let's go ahead and
click add another path port variable we'll call it a path and we'll just call this media in the
container path we're just going to call this slash media i was going to go ahead and call that media
and then we'll map that here in our server to where we have all of our stuff so our media folder
and then we can pretty much have that map there now if you haven't watched my last video which was
about using hard links and atomic moves i suggest you do watch that video is very important to the
reason why we have these paths okay we've moved away from the whole separate shares from movie
tv etc we want things to load instantly so it's really beneficial for you to watch that video
before you continue once we've mapped that we can go ahead and click add and that's pretty
much ready that's really all we need to set up of course make sure your port is free 5055.
if i was to go show all docker allocation and we go control f we type in 5055 i can see that it's
not being used anywhere else in here so we've got all the information go ahead and click apply and
click done now if we head back to our docker tab and we'll scroll right down you can see i've got
overseer here now so we'll left click and click open in web ui so now we're in the main web ui
so we basically have to get set up so the first thing you'll do is sign into your plex account
okay i'll just click sign in with plex i already had my plex signed in so now it allows me to just
continue basically so we'll click refresh here so they can try and retrieve our server by itself
drop down the list if you see your server in there i'm going to pick the local address so that it can
talk locally to our plex server what we don't really want is for this application to reach out
to the internet to get to plex and then back down again so i'm going to pick the local address i've
just picked it from the list shows up as local it's got the default host address that i've set
up with and the port that i've set it up with as well do we want to enable ssl i'm not going to
because i don't actually have ssl on local um if i was coming in through the net and it was through
the reverse proxy then i would enable it okay and click save gives us a nice tick up here that tells
us that the connection is successful scroll down a little further and it basically wants
to know your library so if we just click sync libraries there's our two libraries go ahead and
tick yes and yes how easy is that so far pretty straightforward and now it basically wants to
have our scan done now we can do it in about 24 hours or we can just start it ourselves so we'll
just go ahead and click start scan and it's going to go ahead and start scanning our library now we
don't have to wait for that we can just continue with the setup so go ahead and click continue
now we want to basically set up our radar and our sonar so let's go ahead and start with radar we'll
say it's the default server for movies uh we don't have 4k we'll go ahead and click 4k as well and
we'll start the server name so we'll just call it radar now this the benefit of this we'll just call
that radar now the benefit of this is if you have multiple radar applications or instances running
you might want to give them different names i've only got the one so i'm just going to call it
radar put in the ip address so this is the ip address of the server which radar is running on
so i can see the port here is already there we'll put 7878 we don't need to put ssl but
it does want us to give the api key so let's go to radar go ahead to settings go to general and
then you can see your api key so we'll copy that and paste the api key in here for the base url
we don't have one configured once we've got all that information in there we should be able to
connect to it so let's go ahead and click test and now let's grab some more information from us in
the quality profile select the profile that you've got configured the root folder which is pulling
from radar settings that's correct and the minimum availability so you can have people request stuff
that has been announced and maybe it's three years away or only in cinemas only released etc
etc so i'm going to go ahead and say announced i don't mind stuff being in there for a while
with our tags we don't have any tags set up so we don't have to worry about that
if we want a external url we have an external url but do we want to put it in here
not really because i just want people to use the request service and not go directly to radar
but if you did you could just set that yourself so then we'll click enable scan and that way it can
communicate with radar and scan what radar has in this library as well and uh that's about it so if
we just click test everything seems right go ahead and click add server now you can see i've just got
a warning here that's saying if you only have one server and you've ticked it for both 4k and non 4k
they should not be designated as the same thing so i'm actually going to go ahead and edit that and
i'm going to untick 4k click save but if you did want 4k it's asking you to basically set up as a
separate server and then we're going to repeat the whole step over again for the sonar so there's our
sonar radar set up pretty straightforward that was really easy and we'll go ahead and click finish
setup now it's going to start loading up and you know we're away and going so that's working which
is awesome so in order for us to test this now we really need to request something uh before
we do that though i'll just take you through the interface and we'll have a look through all the
settings so let's say over here we've got recently added so it's already picked up stuff that's been
recently added to my server looks really good you've got recent requests obviously there's
none we've just set this up now but here's the great thing if we come down you can have
a look at what's trending so what are other people watching at the moment you know have a look maybe
something interests you you might want to check it out you know it looks really good no worries
let's go down a little further you've got genres you can go through as well which is really cool
you've got the ability to search by studio you've got popular series so stuff that's ranking high in
the ratings and then you've got networks as well now i should note as well that this is in beta
so guys anything you see here that may not look correct may not look right it's probably still
being worked on and if you would like to help contribute to feedback make sure you go check
out the github page by clicking this link so if we come down to requests now this is the request
interface we can see that this is where request would be we don't have any then we've got users
and here's me here's my little self and then we've got settings so in the settings you've got your
api keys and your application url now if we're going to reverse proxy this now's the time to do
it so we'll go ahead and type our address now i've already covered this in the nginx proxy manager
videos so if you're interested in finding out how to reverse proxy something please watch that
one this is assuming you already have so that's our external url so we can go ahead and click
save changes there so some other settings that we've got as well we've got our enable proxy
support so if you have a proxy that you need to get through you configure that here you can set
external api access to read only so if you want it to be a little bit more secure in that sense hide
available media you can tick that allow partial series requests so if somebody wants to request
a series do you want them to grab just one part of it or do they have to grab the entire series
so that's a nice function as well in our users settings we've got enable local sign in so that
if you want to set up users you can do that the default permissions they have when they do join
whether they have auto approval anything like that you can also set the limits as well then you've
got your plex settings so we've gone through this when we actually set it up so nothing too
crazy there head over to services that's where you configure your radar and sonar which we've already
done you can then configure your notification settings so if you wanted to set up emails
this is where you'll put your host name i've made a video with gmail on how to use that if you want
to use it for free there's other options out there as well if you wanted to use discord this is where
you would set up your discord so you can have an avatar url the username of the bot the webhook
so in discord go to server settings integrations web hooks then you create one and you just put the
url in here and you can put what messages you want the bot to send out it's pretty similar for the
rest of them so you've got all these other ones here as well including webhook itself then you've
got the logs so you can monitor what's happening so you can see it's really nice and clean
really easy to read any jobs that are currently running or have run or scheduled to run are in
here as well and if you go to about you've got your time zone your version any other information
that you might need so let's test an end to end here so let's go ahead and request something
so i'm going to request the movie that isn't currently available so you can see with the tikia
we've got it available already so let's go ahead with something that isn't currently available
let's say this one here the marksman that looks interesting we'll click on it you see as it loads
up it's giving us a nice overview it's giving us the blurb we've got reviews you know even how much
it costs to make the movie i mean i don't know how much information you need but it's got it there
easily watch a trailer if you like you've also got an options here on the side so you can see
whether someone's already requested it or not and we'll scroll down you can see you know the similar
titles maybe you saw something that you liked so look i'm happy with that let's say i want to
request it we'll go ahead and click request it's going to give you some options here and for me
because on the admin it's approved automatically so we don't have to worry too much about that we
don't have any tags the user that i'm signing in as the destination server the quality profile and
the root folder so i don't really have to change any of that because we've all set it up when we
added our radar server so we can pretty much just go ahead and click request that says it's
requested successfully we'll go back to radar now so in radar we can see that it did put the request
through and the search began and i basically added it to our queue so from here we can see that the
request does work and it looks quite clean when you're looking at the requests like this as well
at any point under requests we can go ahead and delete it or we can just go through and see what
it is that um the person has requested as you can see we've refreshed the page now and it's
sewing as processing so it is actually currently processing and we'll be able to see how it's going
you can see here recent requests looks really good as well comes up there for you so it's on
the main page for everyone to see if someone wants to sign in you they can see that it's already been
requested as well so that should help cut down on the double ups that you see a lot of the time
it doesn't have to be over complicated you know it's meant to be nice and easy to use very
friendly to use and on mobile it's very mobile friendly when you go to open this up on your phone
if you're reverse proxying as well it should look really really good so i hope you enjoyed that guys
it's really neat little application i think it's really worth checking out if you're interested
if you have a request system that you are currently using you want to try a new one if you
have a preference for a different one or you have the suggestion for try a different one drop it in
the comments down below and i will get around to checking it out we've also got a video request
channel in our discord so you can put anything that in there that you might think you'd like
to see a video about i hope that helps feel free to check it out please don't forget to like and
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