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From the first start to running it for the whole family.

This guide shows you how to set Nexview up and use it day to day. You start the container, connect your media server and tell Nexview who procures: nexcrate, or Radarr and Sonarr. Then you create accounts and decide who may request what. The further chapters describe child accounts, notifications and the house rules, and at the end running it with sign-in, proxy, backups, Home Assistant and moving from Seerr.

Start with chapter 1 Straight to procurement

Each chapter stands on its own. You can start at the front or jump to where you have a question. What is in quotation marks is called exactly that in the app, and a menu path such as “Settings › System › Mail” names the tabs in the order you click them. The pictures show the interface in English, and so do the labels quoted in the text.

If you are coming from Seerr, it is best to start with Moving from Seerr. There services, mail server, accounts and blocklist come along in one go. How the container runs, which folders and environment variables exist is on the Self-host page.

Getting started

1
First startThe setup wizard on first launch: account, TMDB, procurement, public address and mail server, and which steps you can skip.
2
Connect your media serverConnect Plex, Jellyfin or Emby: signing in with the server account, library sync, watchlist, watched titles and what is playing right now.
3
nexcrate or Radarr and SonarrWho fetches the titles: nexcrate with pairing, versions, “What it is waiting for” and the recycle bin, or Radarr and Sonarr with a 4K instance, and the switch between them.
4
Services and ratingsThe TMDB key, ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, streaming hints and what else the Services page shows, plus the three things to check first.
5
Accounts and rolesInvite accounts, take over Plex users, the roles Administrator, Approver and User, what an account may do in detail and how to remove one again.

Day to day

6
ApprovalsApprove requests by hand or let them through on their own, separately for movies, shows and 4K, and what an approver sees and does in the “All requests” list.
7
RulesWrite rules that decide before approval: conditions such as rating or genre, the consequence approve or decline, the order, and the three limits.
8
Quotas and storageLimits per day, week or month and by disk space in gigabytes, house stock, handing back and rebooking, the recycle bin and what happens when an account is deleted.
9
Child accountsCreate a child account, choose categories and age, approve or decline the children’s wishes, use the preview and know what the age limit does not do.
10
NotificationsBell, mail and web push per person, seven channels for the installation from ntfy to Apprise, and feedback as tickets when something is wrong with a title.
11
House rulesWrite the house’s rules as a text of your own with images, switch on the § button for everyone, make everyone read it again and see who has accepted.

Running it

12
Sign-in and OIDCSigning in with a password, with the media server account or through OpenID Connect: several providers, authentik in one step, Microsoft Entra ID, linking and what the second factor means here.
13
Behind a proxyRun Nexview behind nginx, Caddy, Traefik or Nginx Proxy Manager: own subdomain or sub-path, trusted proxy, cookie, public address and content rules.
14
Backups and updatesCreate, download and restore backups, also on a fresh installation, plus what Nexview takes along, how updates run and how to go back to an older version.
15
Home AssistantInstall the integration through HACS, connect it with a key of your own, what it shows, deciding a request from your phone and removing the integration again.
16
Moving from SeerrFrom a running Seerr installation to Nexview in one pass: take over services, mail server, accounts and blocklist, write it in one transaction, and what does not come along.

Good to knowA question not answered here may be under FAQ. What Nexview is deliberately not is stated honestly on the home page under “What Nexview is not”. The release notes of every version are on GitHub.