Jellyfin

[Maxiboy44]

I currently have issues with jellyfin

I have my movies in Media




And I want it to add to my jellyfin but the path avalible are




Where is the Media folder????


Thats the storage config in the truenas overlay

[Maxiboy44]

Does anyone know how it works?

[flat4vw]

I presume that Hex is also using dockers, so in the setup you have to tell the docker container where the media is located usually /media (docker):/mnt/blah/blah/Media (truenas)

 

I m sure there's a YT setting up Jellyfin on truenas that can help

[Maxiboy44]

@flat4vwthe usually mount /mnt and done



But I get a error and for me /mnt is also empty

which shouldnt be cause in /media is a also a folder

[flat4vw]

You are right, very limited knowledge on truenas but the official truenas docs has it setup like you do

[Maxiboy44]

Ok thanks @flat4vw, at least I feel a bit less dumb now XD 

Since using HexOs im fulltime fighting with very weird bugs like that (also have a directory which is undeletable etc)....

[Maxiboy44]

I also tought of tring out plex, but the payments everywhere is what I hate with plex...

[flat4vw]

3 minutes ago, Maxiboy44 said:

I also tought of tring out plex, but the payments everywhere is what I hate with plex...

I got a lifetime license years ago so im sticking with it but I do run jelly as an alternative in case plex has issues.
I have not set up my Hex server and currently run on unraid and have tried proxmox

[Maxiboy44]

@flat4vwI recommend you waiting until you setup your hex server, at least dont put any important data on it. Luckily I backed up everything I put on there also somewhere else but if I hadnt I would have lost a huge amount of data due to diffrent bugs where you cant do anything against it.

[Maxiboy44]

@flat4vw the worst thing is that im a software developer in germany, I should be able to frickin setup jellyfin. I use docker daily... I hoped to have finally a easy solution for all the home stuff so I dont have to make everything from scratch in my freetime cause of weird bugs, I guess it could be that there is a OS for that but HexOs isnt currently

[flat4vw]

10 minutes ago, Maxiboy44 said:

@flat4vw the worst thing is that im a software developer in germany, I should be able to frickin setup jellyfin. I use docker daily... I hoped to have finally a easy solution for all the home stuff so I dont have to make everything from scratch in my freetime cause of weird bugs, I guess it could be that there is a OS for that but HexOs isnt currently

I can see where that makes it very hard to rely on it. I hope that with the large influx of $$$ they got from the LTT review and others, they can hire more development to move this out of beta.
They way the did it was good marketing and we all jump in but they are hiding behind the moniker this is Beta. No issues there with me I knew what I signed up for but I would think they would update more since they are collection all this data from people like yourself that have a running server.

[Maxiboy44]

Hey @flat4vw

I got it to work. I ignored HexOs and TrueNas, made a Portainer Service and then added the jellyfin as stack like:

 

version: '3.8'
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    volumes:
      - /mnt/HDDs/media/config:/config  # Configuration and metadata storage
      - /mnt/HDDs/media/movies:/media  # Media directory
    ports:
      - 8096:8096                   # HTTP
      - 8920:8920                   # HTTPS (optional)
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin            # Set timezone
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - jellyfin_network            # Custom network

networks:
  jellyfin_network:
    driver: bridge

IMPORTANT: You have to create a public share called "media" with the individual folders ("config" and "movies") inside of it.

Change the timezone if needed.


Maybe this will help you if you encounter similar issues with it.

[Maxiboy44]

If GPU support is needed, try
 

version: '3.8'
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    runtime: nvidia                 # Enables NVIDIA runtime for hardware acceleration
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - capabilities: [gpu]  # Access to the GPU for transcoding
    volumes:
      - /mnt/HDDs/media/config:/config  # Configuration and metadata storage
      - /mnt/HDDs/media/movies:/media  # Media directory
    ports:
      - 8096:8096                   # HTTP
      - 8920:8920                   # HTTPS (optional)
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin            # Set timezone
      - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all  # Expose all GPUs to the container
      - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,video,utility
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - jellyfin_network            # Custom network

networks:
  jellyfin_network:
    driver: bridge

 

[Thedoh]

On 12/12/2024 at 10:59 AM, Maxiboy44 said:

@flat4vw the worst thing is that im a software developer in germany, I should be able to frickin setup jellyfin. I use docker daily... I hoped to have finally a easy solution for all the home stuff so I dont have to make everything from scratch in my freetime cause of weird bugs, I guess it could be that there is a OS for that but HexOs isnt currently

You do understand that this is just beta still right? They know alot of things aren't fully working and that there are bugs ect. Give it time, most bought in now because they know what this can become and it will just take a little time to get there. And now we at least got it cheaper haha.

[Maxiboy44]

8 hours ago, Thedoh said:

You do understand that this is just beta still right? They know alot of things aren't fully working and that there are bugs ect. Give it time, most bought in now because they know what this can become and it will just take a little time to get there. And now we at least got it cheaper haha.

Yes I know that but its still frustrating that base features like custom Raids arent in there and that features like jellyfin from truenas, smth that worked in standalone, doesnt work properly....I dont expect a beta software to have perfect fuctioning plus featues or even perfect functioning base features, but I do expect that most of the base features work mostly and features which existed beforehand are working, specially if there a features app. 

And all in all im not mad about the people who develop it, they have a cool Idea and working hard, but im frustrated that they achived to made base features worse than truenas was (example: I get regular mails that my pool is broken, which isnt the case, and after checking the only thing which is broken is the NFS config...it works but it seems to doesnt know that)

[HappyDace]

I posted this on another thread, and for the record, I am 100% newb to all things NAS. I have now also set up the Jellyfin app on my roku box and can stream media perfectly across my home network:

I managed to install Jellyfin today, it was pretty easy (on the third attempt!!)

Before install I created a media folder as a public folder in HexOS, then created subfolders therein for movies, music, etc. Then installed in TrueNAS, left everything as default except for additional storage which was setup as:

• Type: Host path (Path that already exists on the system)
• Mount path: /media/movies (or other type)
• Host path: navigate to, or type path to folders you created before install (for me was: /mnt/HDDs/Media/Movies etc)
• Complete install, then in Jellyfin UI go through the wizard, and when you get to media libraries, select type, and display name, click +Folder, and browse from the drop down to the corresponding Host Path.

I can access it fine from a browser on my phone, haven't got to the point of using the Jellyfin client on other devices yet.

 

The reason I hadn't set myself up a NAS before now was that I was genuinely intimidated at the process, but the LTT video and HexOS showed me just how easy it can be. Not saying the above will work for everyone, but I tried a few times before getting Jellyfin to work.

 

[MaLiXs]

I was able to start it with what HappyDace say but jellyfin can't find any of the media I put in the folder..,.. oh well I'm about to give up and just wait for the  HexOs "official" install

[Maxiboy44]

@MaLiXs I recommend you using my mentioned instruction guide. It works well and If you want you can later replace it with the offical App.

[MaLiXs]

17 hours ago, Maxiboy44 said:

@MaLiXs I recommend you using my mentioned instruction guide. It works well and If you want you can later replace it with the offical App.

yeah I could take a look to it... but I don't even know what is a Portainer Serviceor even where to start with it... do you have any link to share about it ?

[Dylan]

@MaLiXs - Unless you are familiar with Docker and Linux administration, I agree that it's probably best to wait for official support. Do keep learning and exploring just be mindful, especially if this is relatively new to you and even more so if you have data you value and is not backed up, that what @Maxiboy44 is not officially supported. Remember, we're still in beta and that should give pause unless you're willing to loose data.

[MaLiXs]

1 minute ago, Dylan said:

@MaLiXs - Unless you are familiar with Docker and Linux administration, I agree that it's probably best to wait for official support. Do keep learning and exploring just be mindful, especially if this is relatively new to you and even more so if you have data you value and is not backed up, that what 

I don't really care to loose any data ... I even "destroy" about 300gb by mistake wile moving my stuff from my windows "nas"... but I'm not in a mood to learn to many thing... I just want something simple.. plex is working (with few issue, so when I got problem I use VLC on my chromecast) 

I don't have the time neither the patience to learn something big... so yes I think I'm gonna wat 🙂

[Dylan]

[MaLiXs]

IMO this is a really good project I can wait a little for it...

[HappyDace]

On 12/16/2024 at 11:54 PM, MaLiXs said:

I was able to start it with what HappyDace say but jellyfin can't find any of the media I put in the folder..,.. oh well I'm about to give up and just wait for the  HexOs "official" install

for some reason, one set of media doesn't seem to appear in the correct folder, just shows up in the recently added section below the folders. But generally when you copy the media into your jellyfin folders (using file manager in my case), it will find them after a scan. The folder I am having issues with is one that I set up after install, all the ones I set up pre-install work perfectly, so if I was going to do it again, I would make a folder for each media type first, then just set them all up at install.

One thing I did learn while doing this was not to set the cache, config and transcodes folders on the storage drives as this can apparently cause all sorts of problems. Let jellyfin manage them on the boot SSD.

[TheBoredDude]

On 12/16/2024 at 3:54 PM, MaLiXs said:

I was able to start it with what HappyDace say but jellyfin can't find any of the media I put in the folder..,.. oh well I'm about to give up and just wait for the  HexOs "official" install

Hey, I had the same problem where I was able to get Jellfyfin to find the folders but none of the media in the folders. My best guess after doing a bit of poking around is that its a permissions issue. For some reason I was able to fix it by installing Plex. I set Jellyfin up with the same folders that Plex created and it magically worked.

Edited December 22, 2024 by TheBoredDude
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