{"id":36,"date":"2017-10-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2017\/10\/21\/media-server-part-3-software-installations\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:52:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:52:38","slug":"media-server-part-3-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2017\/10\/media-server-part-3-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Media Server Part 3 – Software Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"


Having installed all of my hard drives and upgraded CPU in the HP Microserver, I needed to install an OS.<\/p>\n

I initially installed Debian<\/a> Jessie, but after noting that this was not supported by Docker<\/a> as a base build, I re-installed with Ubuntu<\/a> Server 16.04.02 LTS.<\/p>\n

Whilst I currently have a screen and keyboard attached to the server, which were useful for the initial operating system install, I did not install any graphical user interface and I make all of my updates to the server via SSH connections on terminal sessions from my MAC Mini.<\/p>\n

The intention is that the HP Microserver will run completely headless as a stand-alone box.<\/p>\n

I also located an ILO 4.0 license to install to give me remote console access to my server via a dedicated network port should I need to access the console at any time. This also makes it possible for me to remote mount ISO images as required without needing to burn them to a USB stick.<\/p>\n

Once I had a running OS on the server, it was then time to start installing Docker<\/a> and some containers.<\/p>\n

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I also decided to install ZFS for managing all of the non OS related file systems, this way I can quickly create separate ZFS file systems for each Docker<\/a> container, as well as dedicated file systems for each media type. These file systems can also be pulled into the various containers as required.<\/p>\n

I chose to create configuration files for each of my Docker<\/a> containers, so that I can modify and rebuild them as I decide on better configurations without having to remember how each one was created.<\/p>\n

I currently have running containers for Plex<\/a>, PlexConnect<\/a>, Plexpy<\/a>, Portainer<\/a>, Muximux<\/a> and Minecraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have a lifetime premium Plex<\/a> pass, so I have access to my media on any device supported by Plex<\/a>, including my tablets, Macs, phones, Smart TVs, and Apple TV devices.<\/p>\n

The PlexConnect<\/a> container allows the Apple TV version 3 unit in my daughter’s room to use the Trailers app to trick it into talking to the Plex<\/a> container on my media server.<\/p>\n

The Plexpy<\/a> container allows me to see who has watched what on the Plex<\/a> server.<\/p>\n

Muximux<\/a> acts as a single front end to all of the various web interfaces.<\/p>\n

Portainer<\/a> allows me to remotely manage the Docker<\/a> engine from a web interface.<\/p>\n

Minecraft<\/a> is a local server for my children and their friends to connect to.<\/p>\n

I also have containers for CouchPotato<\/a>, Sickrage<\/a>, Headphones<\/a>, Filebot<\/a>, Deluge<\/a>, Rutorrent<\/a> and Nginx<\/a>, but I first want to perfect talking through my OpenVPN<\/a> container before I start using these in anger.<\/p>\n

In the mean time I continue to use Sickrage<\/a> on my Mac with utorrent<\/a> behind a VPN and then transfer the files over to the media server via sftp.<\/p>\n

Here is an example of the configuration file for my Plex<\/a> container:<\/p>\n

sudo docker create 
--name=plex 
--net=host 
--restart=always 
-e VERSION=latest 
-e PUID=1001 -e PGID=1001 
-e TZ=Europe\/London 
-v \/Media\/Docker\/plex\/config:\/config 
-v \"\/Media\/TV Shows\":\/data\/tvshows 
-v \/Media\/Movies:\/data\/movies 
-v \/Media\/Music:\/data\/music 
-v \/Media\/Docker\/plex\/transcode:\/transcode 
linuxserver\/plex
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This shows all of the file systems that are imported, the userid, timezone, etc that are setup when the container is first created.<\/p>\n
After changing the permissions on the configuration file, I can then run this configuration file to create the container, and then type ‘docker start plex’ to start the container.<\/p>\n
The ‘–restart=always’ setting ensures that the container is restarted automatically if the server reboots for whatever reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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