> in stead of relaying requests through me.

Overseerr is a thing.

1) You're missing the point. Overseer can do this, yes. AI model can work with ANY REST API.

2) How does Overseerr help? I've never really understood it if I could give my family access to Overseerr over a VPN I could just give them sonarr / radarr directly.

Expose Overseerr over HTTPS either from your home network or on a free VPS which has the tunnel into the home network where Radarr and Sonarr live. This is simpler for users to go to a website instead of having to also use a VPN.

This of course assumes you already have Plex or Jellyfin exposed to the public internet without a VPN.

If you're already forcing users to use a VPN for Plex/Jellyfin then hosting Overseerr locally and making it accessible over the VPN should be trivial.

Overseer runs on plex's media port? Plex has the media port 32400 NAT hole-punched, but none of my other webservices are exposed outside my VPN.

Do what I do and use the tautulli sqlite3 database to get the IP addresses of Plex users and then add them to an ipset filter in nftables/ip tables that whitelists them to access an nginx proxy serving Overseeerr on port 443. It's glorious. I'm sure any LLM can cook this up for you.

> How does Overseerr help

It's nicer to use than Sonarr / Radarr, and a single interface for people to learn. It has suggestions for people that need that. There's also MCP for it, so instead of setting up N MCPs for Sonarr / Radarr / The Next Arr, you set one up for Seerr.

You can also link people's Plex Watchlist. So the whole request / add to Sonarr/Radarr can be done from anywhere they use Plex.

Overseerr is a write-only access to your Radarr/Sonarr library, so e.g. the user cannot accidentally delete a movie or choose to download a lower quality version.

Sounds great, but if my family wanted to access a web-ui in stead of shooting me a message in natural language I could also give them the Radarr / Sonarr UI.

Currently the profile is fixed. I guess they can delete movies but I can re-downlaod in 5 min so not a massive problem. I'm on a rolling-delete schedule anyway as my hard drives fill up quickly.

People just text me their request, you want me to setup yet another *arr service to have people setup accounts or me sending passwords around that's not behind my safe VPN and is the only thing connected to my home network that i would expose and it's setup different so my maintenance is different and more work and people wont remember the password or account and blah blah blah.

Yeah I'll just have them text me and I'll paste that into my AI chat and it'll be done.

> you want me to setup yet another arr service to have people setup accounts*

Authentication to Overseerr is done with a Plex account. No new accounts.

How are you handling secrets? I want hermes to do stuff on the internet but I am not enthused about dumping the requried keys in .env.local or using process wrapper services like infisical yet. Encapsulating hermes in a docker sandbox feels slippery and I'm always left thinking if i've hardened my server enough.

Openclaw uses the API key for Sonarr / Radarr, no secrets management (yet).

Though egress is heavily restricted for OpenClaw and everything is behind a FW.

Your setup sounds awesome can I ask - would a high powered mac studio help yoru setup alot or not really? Im just wondering whether i truly need to upgrade from a 32gb macbook air to a studio with 256gb ram or , if thats just overkill for the models we have ( also the studio would be a m2 which is years old now).

Well i run the new qwen3.6 or gemma4 now. I have a 48gb ram Macbook but its from work, so not really meant to be serving models 24/7.

And then for ‘big’ work I tend to switch to a cloud offering. With a 128gb mac I would be 100% offline probably.

There is no GUI in anything you're saying. How is this 'the new GUI'?

I have a similar set up. I communicate/chat with the Hermes agent via Matrix chat client.

So rather than having to go to a bunch of different websites or apps to get things done, I've linked them all to Hermes (via skills) and chat with the Hermes agent on my phone.

I want a movie? I just say download XYZ. Shows up in Plex 5 min later.

I want to research something with multiple different perspectives? Rather than going to OpenWebUI and using that, I just asked a Hermes agent to examine an issue from multiple different viewpoints and get back to me with a conclusion.

It's the next paradigm in how people interact with computers.

100%. It's so natural, even to complete noobs that's it's hard to go back.

Except it's not. Even though us commandlinebros made fun of GUIs back when they came out, GUIs still have the property of being precise and unambiguous (to the machine, to the human requires design finesse and clear guidelines). There's no "Oopsie-boopsie! I made a little fucky-wucky and accidentally your entire production database, even though you told me not to do that!" with a CLI or GUI. With CLI and GUI, screwups of that sort are entirely PEBKACs. The fucky-wucky factor needs to be controlled in LLMs so that it's possible to communicate your exact intent to the machine and get the expected result every time. Of course if that's ever achieved we will have reinvented command processors "with extra steps".

Is a webapp with a frontend not a GUI? Thats what I meant.

Why not just use https://seerr.dev/

Using an ai for that is pretty wasteful.

What if I tell you u can use the agent directly with seerr. That way you don't have to make or maintain skills/mcps for each of the services.

OP said he does local inference, and you are complaining about 'wastefulness'. OP brought the request service to where his friends already were. For them, this is probably the better solution. Seerr cannot expose itself to discord/telegram and requires users to have another account. I mean, sure you can have the AI code those too.

There are plenty of ways to solve problems, and some people do it differently. Sometimes, just to see if it works. This is a good thing. Not everyone has the time nor inclination to maximize efficiency.

> Seerr cannot expose itself to discord/telegram and requires users to have another account

Seerr can use Plex accounts, assuming people are using OPs Plex library, there's no new accounts needed to be made.

> OP brought the request service to where his friends already were ...

Another thing Seerr can do is scan the watch lists of any connected Plex accounts, so assuming the friends are already using Plex, they'd already have access to it.

> Not everyone has the time nor inclination to maximize efficiency.

Wasn't that a thing LLMs were supposed to help with?

Oh man what a great idea! Stealing that. Don't even have to ask you to share I'm sure I can nearly one-shot the same service for myself. :)