Tutorials & Knowledge Base
Everything you need to use Karafa.net, written in plain language. No IT background required —
if a guide ever uses a word you don't know, it is explained in the glossary.
Beginner friendly
English & Slovak
Updated August 2026
First time here?
Read these three in order and you will be watching within about fifteen minutes: Getting Started → the app for your device → Requesting titles.
Start hereGetting Started
What Karafa.net actually is, how to get an account, and how to play your first film in a
web browser. The guide every other guide builds on.
Beginner
8 min
Watch on your phone
Install Streamyfin on Android or iPhone, connect it to the server, and download episodes
to watch offline on a plane or a train.
Beginner
6 min
Watch on your TV
Android TV, Fire TV Stick, Chromecast, Samsung and LG smart TVs, or an old TV plus an HDMI
cable. Pick whatever you already own — one of these will work.
Beginner
7 min
Request a film or show
The library does not have everything — but you can ask for anything. Send a request and the
server finds it, downloads it and adds it for you, usually within a few hours.
Beginner
5 min
Swiparr — pick together
Stop spending forty minutes deciding what to watch. Everyone swipes through the library and
the app tells you the moment you all like the same thing.
Beginner
4 min
Live TV & motorsport
47 Slovak channels are a free bonus on every account. Formula 1, MotoGP and extra
simultaneous streams are supporter perks — this explains exactly which is which.
Beginner
6 min
Ghostline Chat
A private, end-to-end encrypted messenger on our own server. No phone number, no adverts,
and registration is open to anyone — no invitation needed.
Beginner
5 min
Achievements & stats
See how many hours you have watched, which genres you actually prefer, and unlock badges for
milestones like finishing your first hundred episodes.
Beginner
3 min
Block ads everywhere
A free DNS resolver that removes most adverts, trackers and known malicious sites — on every
device in your home, including ones that cannot run an ad blocker.
Easy, slightly technical
10 min
Shorten a link
Turn a monstrous 300-character link into something you can read out loud over the phone,
with a custom name of your choosing. No account required.
Beginner
3 min
Your account & settings
Change your password, set your subtitle and audio language once so it applies everywhere,
sign a lost phone out remotely, and see exactly what the server knows about you.
Beginner
5 min
Something is broken
Buffering, a black screen, subtitles that will not show, "cannot connect to server", a login
that keeps failing. The fifteen most common problems and how to fix each one yourself.
Beginner
9 min
IT words, explained
Server, DNS, IP address, transcoding, buffering, bandwidth, VPN. Thirty terms you will meet
in these guides, each in one or two ordinary sentences.
Beginner
6 min
No guide matches that. Try a shorter word, or write to [email protected] and we will add one.
What runs behind these guides
Everything here is self-hosted on our own hardware — no third-party cloud is involved. Each service below is a separate container behind an nginx reverse proxy with TLS.
| Service | Address | What it does for you |
|---|---|---|
| Jellyfin | jellyfin.karafa.net |
The media library itself — this is where you press play. |
| Jellyseerr | req.karafa.net |
Where you ask for titles the library does not have yet. |
| Wizarr | wizarr.karafa.net |
Redeems your invitation once, when the account is created. Never a login page. |
| Ghostline | element.karafa.net |
Private encrypted chat, built on Matrix and Element. |
| Swiparr | swipe.karafa.net |
Group film picker — swipe until everyone matches. |
| StreamyStats | stats.karafa.net |
Your personal watch history and genre breakdown. |
| Uptime Kuma | status.karafa.net |
Live check of whether a service is actually down, or just you. |
| DNS resolver | dns.karafa.net |
Filters adverts, trackers and malware for your whole network. |
| URL shortener | url.karafa.net |
Makes long links short and generates QR codes. |