After almost 3 years of work, I’ve finally managed to get this project stable enough to release an alpha version!
I’m proud to present Managarr - A TUI and CLI for managing your Servarr instances! At the moment, the alpha version only supports Radarr.
Not all features are implemented for the alpha version, like managing quality profiles or quality definitions, etc.
Here’s some screenshots of the TUI:
Additionally, you can use it as a CLI for Radarr; For example, to search for a new film:
managarr radarr search-new-movie --query "star wars"
Or you can add a new movie by its TMDB ID:
managarr radarr add movie --tmdb-id 1895 --root-folder-path /nfs/movies --quality-profile-id 1
All features available in the TUI are also available via the CLI.
I’ll admit, as neat as this is, I’m a little unclear on the use case? Are there really situations where it’s easier to get a command prompt than it is to open a webpage?
The CLI side I can see more use for since that does expose a lot of actions to bash scripting, which could be neat. But on the whole I can’t say I’ve ever really found myself thinking “Man, I really wish I had a UI for managing Radarr, a program that already includes a really good UI.”
I know it’s shitty to hate on something just because you’re not the target for it. That’s not my intent, it’s more that I’m just fascinated by the question of how anyone has a burning need for this? It feels like there must be something I’m missing here.
No hate perceived on my end! To answer your question, I built it for a few reasons:
- I wanted to learn Rust, so I used this project to do that
- I really love TUI’s and I pretty much live in my command line at work, and since I already automate everything I can to make my work life easier, I wanted to be able to do the same with my homelab
- I think it looks cool
- For fun. If no one else ever gets use out of it, that’s okay! I just really enjoyed building it and I’m excited to build out more of it.
But also: Why not?
Well, can’t say fairer than that.
Could be really useful to have a UI over SSH without opening your web interface to the world. I will try because it seems great for my use case !
But that implies you do have your SSH open to the world, right?
The way I access my private web interfaces remotely is through something like Netmaker, Tailscale or Zerotier. Same thing for SSH. No way in hell am I opening 22 on my router.
You can use any port for ssh. When I switched from 22 to 1337, brute force attempts at logging in stopped
Netmaker, Tailscale or Zerotier
No way in hell i am giving a company complete remote access to my servers and clients.
All these companies do is make it easier to use wireguard, if you’re so afraid of them just use wireguard yourself, you’ll get the same effect
This is not really correct. Those companies take complete control of the secret keys. And no, it is not the same effect when you use tailscale compared to wireguard cause of various reasons. CGNAT, no port forwarding, funnels etc.