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FAQ

Short answers to common questions. For anything not here, see Troubleshooting.

What is CHUB?

A self-hosted web app that keeps a Plex library tidy. Point it at Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, and Plex and it handles the chores — renaming posters, finding duplicates, applying borders, searching upgrades, cleaning orphaned files, and more. See Home.

How is it different from DAPS?

Same module set, different direction. CHUB is a fork of DAPS with a refreshed UI, live status updates, inline metadata editing with an audit trail, duplicate resolution, and tightened security. See Credits.

Can I migrate my DAPS install to CHUB?

Your config.yml carries over — CHUB auto-migrates a DAPS config to its own schema on first load (it backs up the original as config.yml.legacy-<timestamp>.yml; see Configuration → auto-migration). There's no data/database migration, though — match state, applied-poster history, and hashes start fresh. So point CHUB at your DAPS config.yml (verify the paths still resolve inside the new container), but expect modules to rebuild their state on first run. Your DAPS install keeps running on its own image if you want both side-by-side during cut-over.

Is CHUB safe to expose on the public internet?

Not directly. It's built for a private network (LAN or VPN). It has login and rate limiting but isn't hardened against a determined attacker. For remote access, put it behind a reverse proxy with TLS plus a second auth layer (Authelia, Authentik, Cloudflare Access).

How do I reset the admin password?

See Troubleshooting → Reset the admin password for the full procedure.

How do I connect my Radarr / Sonarr / Lidarr / Plex instances?

See the First-Run walkthrough.

Does CHUB work with a 4K-split Plex library?

Yes. Use nestarr to move items between split libraries by ARR path mapping, and configure each Plex library separately under instances.plex. poster_renamerr also takes a library_names list to scope each Plex instance.

Does CHUB support Lidarr?

Yes, via upgradinatorr — full album search, artist grouping, and all three modes (upgrade, missing, cutoff). There's no dedicated Lidarr UI since Lidarr covers music browsing itself. Open an issue if you want a Lidarr-specific workflow.

How do I run a module now instead of waiting for the schedule?

Dashboard → New run, pick the module, Run. See UI Guide.

How do I stop a running module?

Settings → Jobs, click the running job, Cancel. Most stop within seconds; border_replacerr and parts of plex_maintenance run to completion — see Troubleshooting → Cancel doesn't stop a module.

Where does CHUB keep its data?

Everything lives under the folder you mount to /config:

  • config.yml — settings
  • chub.db — database (users, jobs, media, poster index, edit history)
  • logs/ — per-module log files
  • backups/ — backup zips

Your poster and media trees live on the volumes you mount separately.

How do I back it up?

  1. UI: Settings → Backup → Create backup — downloads a zip and keeps a copy under backups/.
  2. Filesystem: stop the container, copy the whole config folder, start it again.

How do I update?

docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

Schema changes apply automatically on startup — no manual migrations.

Can I use CHUB with just one ARR instance?

Yes. Multi-instance support is optional — configure only what you run.

Does CHUB have an API key for integrations?

No separate key. For inbound webhooks from Sonarr/Radarr/Tautulli, set general.webhook_secret (see Webhooks). To script against CHUB itself, see the Developer Guide.

Do I need both Kometa and CHUB?

No — they solve different problems. Kometa manages Plex metadata and collections; CHUB manages poster file trees and media-asset chores. poster_renamerr is designed to consume Kometa's asset output. See Kometa Integration.

Does my media folder/file naming affect poster matching?

No. poster_renamerr matches against the metadata your *arr holds (title, year, TVDb/TMDb/IMDb id, season), pulled from the API — not parsed from disk. To improve matching, fix the poster set's filenames, not your media folders. See Modules → poster_renamerr.

Can I disable modules I don't use?

Yes. Just don't configure or schedule them — an unconfigured module does nothing when triggered. See Modules.

What's the container user / permissions model?

The image runs as dockeruser with UID/GID from PUID/PGID (default 100/99, matching Unraid; most Linux hosts want 1000/1000). Mount paths must be writable by that UID/GID. See Installation.

How do I contribute?

See the Developer Guide for the contributing checklist and local dev setup.


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