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Connecting services

What Nexview talks to, and how

Nexview downloads nothing and stores no films. It talks to programs that do — and to services that pass word along. Here is what each of them needs, and what tends to go wrong.

Required

Radarr and Sonarr

An address and an API key, nothing more. You find the key in Radarr and Sonarr under Settings → General → API Key.

Nexview reads the root folders and quality profiles from there and offers exactly those. Add a new profile in Radarr and it shows up here on the next visit.

The most common stumbling block is the address. If Nexview runs in a container, localhost is the container itself, not your computer. Use the address on your network — or the service name if both sit in the same Docker network.

Optionally a second instance for 4K can be entered for each. Only then does a 4K switch appear anywhere at all.

Optional

Plex

Plex brings three things: signing in with a Plex account, the in library marker for titles that never came through Radarr, and the watched state.

You connect through your Plex account: sign in, pick your own server from the list. Nexview stores the first address the server actually answers on — the local one comes first but is not always reachable from inside a container.

If none answers it is stored anyway and a notice appears: signing in keeps working, because it runs through Plex; only the library sync needs a reachable address.

The full story is on the Plex page.

Optional

Notifications

After the wizard, under settings → notifications: ntfy, Gotify, Telegram or e-mail.

While setting up, Nexview sends a test message carrying a four-digit code you have to type back. That is not red tape: an “HTTP 200” from a push service only means accepted, never arrived — a wrong topic or an app with no subscription is answered just as politely.

How to build several inboxes with different events out of that is on the notifications page.

When it jams

Three things to check first

Connection fails. Almost always the address as seen from the container. A quick test from inside the container settles it faster than any guess.

No profiles in the list. Then Radarr is answering but the key is wrong — with a wrong key Radarr returns no error, just an empty list.

Invitations never arrive. Usually the public address or the mail server is missing. Both live under settings → address and → SMTP settings; the log shows what it failed on.

Nexview uses TMDB as its data source but is not from TMDB and is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. The screenshots come from a test installation; the accounts and requests shown in them are made up.

Nexview is published under the MIT licence. Radarr, Sonarr, Plex, Docker, Synology, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and JustWatch are trademarks of their respective owners and are named here for descriptive purposes only. Some of the icons on this page are based on Lucide (ISC licence) — copyright held in part by Cole Bemis 2013–2022 as part of Feather (MIT licence), otherwise by the Lucide contributors from 2022.