u/NoWerewolf7191

Just thought I'd cross-post my comment for better visibility, in case anyone finds it useful.

Just a note: The creator of Houndarr did say that they used AI in development, but that they have something like 5 years of coding experience and are confident in Houndarr's architecture:

"About me: I have a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from a top-65 nationally ranked university (U.S. News 2026), and I've been writing code for four or five years. I've always been into building things, and this project came out of wanting something that actually fit how I run my stack. I vibe coded it heavily, but I understand what I ship. This is my first real public project, so bug reports, feedback, and criticism are all welcome. GitHub issues and/or GitHub discussions are the best place."

- Reddit post with the creator's 'disclaimerr'

- https://github.com/av1155/houndarr

Hello!

Was just curious if anyone has experience hosting with ~100 Mbps upload when your users are in a distant country (but they have ~1 GB/s upload)?

Is there direct playback smooth? Wifi vs ethernet?

If i have 2 users direct playing (no transcoding) from distant countries, they usually experience terrible buffering despite it only taking up ~21 Mbps each (I understand this is VBR, but it probably would never even reach 80 Mbps total if there are just 2 users)...
When i limited my remote bitrate to 8 Mbps (on the fly transcoding), there are no problems.

They and I are both using Wifi for our devices, but I'm going to test ethernet later today. But, since I have great Wifi connection, I doubt things to change very much.

Sorry, I am a little confused on how to set Bazarr to only operate within a daily time window.

I want it to work between 08:00 and 14:00. I can't seem to restrict its operations to this window in its settings, though?

Could someone help point me toward something i might be missing?

Or perhaps there is a crude way to do this if there are no native knobs? E.g., setting a chron job for Bazarr to launch via docker at 08:00 and stop its container at 14:00?

Thanks!

So, for context: Plex on Mac mini (16 GB), media on a single Seagate Expansion USB HDD, Plex metadata + incomplete downloads + Tdarr temp on a separate SSD.

My issue is that when I have 2+ remote viewers, they get buffering, even with plenty of bandwidth and little or no transcoding. My theory is the single spinning drive (one head) can’t serve Plex reads + SAB/qBit imports + Tdarr probes + thumbnail work in parallel without seek-thrashing.

For anyone who made the jump:

1. Did moving from a single USB HDD → multi-bay DAS (or NAS) actually eliminate multi-stream buffering for you?
2. Considering OWC ThunderBay 4 + 4× Seagate IronWolf Pro 16 TB in RAID 5. Overkill for a home Plex box, or just the normal “lesson learned” upgrade?
3. Anything cheaper that worked? e.g. two drives split by library, JBOD, or just adding a second USB HDD?

Trying to confirm the diagnosis before spending the money. Thanks.