Marquee

🚧 Beta. Actively developed and tested daily against a real Plex/Sonarr/Radarr setup, but still early — expect rough edges, schema changes between updates, and the occasional bug. Back up your database before updating. Found something broken? Open an issue.

A self-hosted dashboard that ties your media metadata together with what you actually own. Look up any actor, studio, or franchise, see instantly whether it's already in your Plex or Jellyfin library or being downloaded, and send anything missing straight to Sonarr or Radarr — all from one page, without digging through three different apps.

Runs on your home network (Unraid, Synology, a spare box, whatever) next to the Plex/Jellyfin/Sonarr/Radarr you already have. Not a hosted service — your data, your server.

Features

Home & Discover

• Trending-this-week and coming-soon rails on the homepage (public, no account needed to browse).
• Discover page: filter by Movies / TV / Both, sort by Popular / Top rated / Newest, filter by year and by any of the 16+ TMDb genres.
• Hide titles you already track toggle, so Discover only shows what you don't have yet.
• Quick-add button right on the poster — add to Sonarr/Radarr without opening the title page.
• Surprise me button — picks a random title matching your current filters, for when you just want something to watch tonight.

Search

• Title, person, and studio search with live autocomplete suggestions.
• Genre search — type "action", "horror", "comedy" (or a TV genre like "Sci-Fi & Fantasy") and get every matching movie/TV show.
• Theme/keyword search — for queries that aren't a genre (e.g. "natural disaster"), falls back to TMDb's keyword tagging to find matches.

Title pages

• Full details: overview, runtime, rating, genres, year(s), status (Continuing/Ended/etc.), network, trailer, and links to IMDb/TheTVDB/ Instagram/X (Twitter)/Facebook.
• Live ownership status: Owned / Downloading / Monitored / Coming soon / Not owned, checked directly against Plex, Jellyfin, and Sonarr/Radarr — an unreleased title that's already being tracked shows as "Coming soon" instead of looking like something's actually missing.
• One-click Add to Radarr/Sonarr (admin) using your saved quality profile/root folder — re-enables monitoring automatically if the title was already added and then unmonitored. Household members see a Request button instead — see Household accounts & requests below.
• Full cast list with character names, linking to each person's page.
• Studio/production company section, with conglomerates (Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, etc.) merged into one entry instead of listed separately.
• Franchise & crossover section: movie collections (Harry Potter, James Bond, etc.) pulled directly from TMDb; a curated list for TV crossovers (Arrowverse, 9-1-1 Universe, One Chicago, NCIS Franchise).
• "More like this" recommendations.
• TV shows: season selector with per-season completeness, full episode list with per-episode have-it/missing status.
• File details section: location (with copy-to-clipboard), size, runtime, and — for Radarr-owned movies — resolution, video codec, HDR, audio, quality profile, edition, and release group.
• "Wrong match? Fix ID" (admin-only) — a title occasionally gets synced under the wrong TMDb/TVDB match (e.g. a mislabeled Plex library folder). Enter the correct TMDb, IMDb, or TVDB id and Marquee repoints every synced row currently linked to the wrong one over to the right title, no need to fix the match in Plex/Jellyfin/Sonarr first.

People & studios

• Full filmography for any actor/person — every movie and TV credit with character name, cross-referenced against your library.
• Full catalog for any studio, with the same conglomerate-merging as title pages.
• Favorite button on people and studios to build a personal watchlist.

My Library

• One aggregated view of everything already in Plex, Jellyfin, Sonarr, and Radarr — shared with every household member, not just the admin who connected the integrations.
• Header stats: movie count, TV show count, total size on disk, plus a count of anything monitored/downloading but not yet owned.
• Filter by type (Movie/TV) and status (Owned/Downloading/Monitored/Coming soon), sort by Newest/Oldest/A–Z/Recently added, search within your library, and switch between grid and table views.
• Stop monitoring a title directly from the library (admin-only).
• Missing from collections tab — franchises you own at least one part of but not all of (e.g. Iron Man 1 without 2 or 3), so you can spot and fill the gaps in a series without hunting for it one title at a time.
• Resolution badges (4K/1080p/720p) on owned Radarr movies, in both the grid and table views and on title pages.
• Storage forecast — once there's a few days of history, a "free space runs out in ~N days" estimate based on how fast your root folders are actually filling up.

Calendar

• Month grid of upcoming releases and air dates, pulled straight from Radarr's/Sonarr's own calendar data — accurate release/digital/physical dates for movies, per-episode air dates for TV.
• Shared with every household member, same as My Library.

Notifications

• Bell icon in the nav polls for new activity: a title started downloading, finished downloading, or (for household members) one of your requests was approved or declined.
• Powered by Radarr/Sonarr webhooks — the URL and a per-account secret are generated for you under Settings → Integrations.

Favorites

• One page listing every person and studio you've starred.

Trakt import

• Paste a public Trakt list or watchlist URL and every matching title not already owned or requested gets added to the Requests queue — Trakt connects with a free API app's client id, no OAuth/sign-in required (the list just needs to be public on Trakt's side).

Household accounts & requests

• One-time first-run setup creates the admin account — no public signup page after that.
• The admin adds accounts for other household members from Settings → Account, and can remove them later. Members only ever see their own account there, not the rest of the household.
• Members get the full app — Discover, Search, My Library, Favorites, Calendar — but instead of adding titles directly to Sonarr/Radarr, they hit Request. The admin reviews everything waiting for approval on the Requests page and approves or declines with one click, or hits Approve all to clear the whole queue at once when there's more than one pending. The requester gets notified either way. Members have their own Requests tab too, showing the status of everything they've asked for — pending, declined, or (once approved) downloading/already in the library.
• Manually approve — for a TV request Sonarr can't resolve on its own (no TVDB id on TMDb's record), the admin gets an "Add manually in Sonarr" link straight to Sonarr's own search, and can mark the request approved by hand once it's added outside the app. The requester sees "Manually approved" so they know it was handled, not stuck.
• Only the admin can connect or reconfigure Plex/Jellyfin/Sonarr/Radarr (Settings → Integrations) — members can browse and request, not wire up new download sources.
• Settings → Integrations (admin-only):
  • TMDb — one shared API key/access token for the whole instance, editable in-app (test-and-save) or via environment variable.
  • TheTVDB — optional; fills in a TV show's poster and overview when TMDb doesn't have them yet (common for very new or niche releases), the same way Sonarr's own metadata does. Free API key from thetvdb.com/dashboard/account/apikey.
  • Plex — OAuth connect, shows your library's movie/TV counts, syncs automatically in the background.
  • Jellyfin — server URL + API key (test-and-save; generate the key from Jellyfin's own dashboard under Administration → API Keys). Can be connected alongside Plex, instead of it, or not at all.
  • Sonarr / Radarr — server URL + API key (test-and-save), with default quality profile and root folder for new adds.
  • Disconnect any of the above with one click — removes the saved credential and whatever that integration had synced, so nothing stale lingers behind.
• Settings → Activity (admin-only): a reverse-chronological feed of who requested what and who reviewed it — separate from the per-recipient notification bell.
• "Keep me signed in for 30 days" login option, rate-limited sign-in attempts, and all saved integration credentials encrypted at rest.

Error reference

• A plain-language error reference page (/help/errors, linked from the footer of every page) explaining every user-facing error message in the app — what it means and what to do about it — so a stuck admin or household member isn't left guessing.

Version & changelog

• A version number in the footer of every page links to /changelog, a running list of what changed, was fixed, or was added in each release.

Self-hosting

• Single self-contained Docker image — Postgres runs inside the same container as the app, so there's nothing else to install or wire up. Database migrations apply automatically on every start.
• Works out of the box on Unraid, either via Docker Compose or a native Community Applications template.
• Mobile-friendly — a hamburger nav and touch-scrollable rows/tables mean it's fully usable from a phone, not just desktop.
• Want to reach it from outside your home network? A free Cloudflare Tunnel works well and needs no port forwarding — point it at http://<your-server-ip>:3000.

Quick start (Docker)

Requirements: Docker + Docker Compose, and free API keys from TMDb and TheTVDB (both free, a couple minutes to sign up).

git clone https://github.com/TimmyAmant/marquee.git
cd marquee
cp .env.local.example .env

Edit .env and fill in:

Then:

docker compose up -d

This pulls the prebuilt image from Docker Hub (amd64 and arm64) instead of building locally, so it's up in seconds. If you've changed the source and want to run your own build instead, use docker compose up -d --build.

Visit http://<your-server-ip>:3000. First visit creates the admin account (one-time setup, no public signup after); connect Plex/Jellyfin/Sonarr/Radarr from Settings → Integrations once you're in.

Unraid

Two ways to run it on Unraid, pick one:

Option A — Compose Manager Install the Compose Manager plugin from Community Applications, point it at this repo's docker-compose.yml. Change APP_PORT in .env first if it collides with something else you're running.

Option B — native Community Applications template (recommended) Marquee is listed directly in Community Applications — open the Apps tab, search "marquee", and install it. It's a single container — just fill in POSTGRES_PASSWORD and the other fields the template asks for (same variables as the .env table above); everything else, including where the database is stored, is pre-filled with sane defaults.

The template lives at unraid-templates/marquee.xml in this repo.

Local development

The app container bundles Postgres for production/self-hosting, but for local development it's easiest to run a plain throwaway Postgres alongside npm run dev:

npm install
docker run -d --name marquee-dev-db -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=devpass -e POSTGRES_DB=marquee postgres:16-alpine
cp .env.local.example .env.local   # set DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:devpass@localhost:5432/marquee
npm run dev

Schema changes: npx drizzle-kit generate then npx drizzle-kit migrate.

Locked out? Reset the admin password

Since there's no public signup page and no email server, the only way back in if the admin forgets their password is directly through the container — if the site is running, you already have everything you need.

Find your container's name (docker ps if you're not sure — marquee-app-1 for Docker Compose, Marquee on Unraid by default), then run:

docker exec -it <container-name> npm run reset-admin-password -- <new-password>

Password must be at least 8 characters. This updates the admin account's password directly in the database — no login required.

Support

Found a bug or have a question? Open an issue.