Trying to open the Seerr app and its just spinning on the sign in page for 3-4 minutes before asking me to sign in again. Jellyfin server. Made sure the username and password were copied and pasted correctly from the start page on the tomsparkbox. What am I missing?
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Chris wrote:
Hey — thanks for the clear write-up, and you're not doing anything wrong. That 'spins for a few minutes, then bounces you back to sign in' pattern is almost always the browser holding onto a stale Seerr session cookie from an earlier attempt, so a fresh login never sticks. Quickest test: open Seerr in a private/incognito window (or clear cookies just for the Seerr page), then sign in again with those same Jellyfin credentials. If it still loops, run sudo sparkbox update and let it finish — Tom shipped an auto-repair that re-checks Seerr's Jellyfin connection on every startup, and that clears most sign-in loops. Let me know how it goes!
GipoidJr wrote:
I had a similar issue. I had to set the hostname to sb-jellyfin-media instead of the IP address
Chris wrote:
Nailed it — thanks for jumping in, GipoidJr. That's exactly the fix: Seerr signs users in through Jellyfin, and the container name sb-jellyfin-media is the only stable address on the internal network, so a saved LAN IP breaks the moment your NAS's DHCP lease changes. Good news for anyone hitting this: Tom shipped an auto-heal that runs on sudo sparkbox update (and every sudo sparkbox up) — it re-points Seerr to sb-jellyfin-media:8096 for you automatically, no manual edit needed. rootuser, that update should clear your sign-in loop too.
Chris wrote:
Correcting myself here, because that steer had a hole in it. The auto-heal is a script that ships with the SparkBox release itself, and the code that runs it checks the file is there first — so on a box that hasn't moved onto that release, sudo sparkbox update runs the step and silently heals nothing. The command that actually lands it: sudo sparkbox upgrade If you'd rather not wait on that, GipoidJr's manual route is the very same repair: in Seerr's Jellyfin settings set the hostname to sb-jellyfin-media, the port to 8096, and leave SSL unticked. Either way that login bounce should stop.