lightsail-htpc

Home theater PC on Lightsail with Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Ombi, NZBGet, NZBHydra, Letsencrypt, DuckDNS

Edit config

Edit the following lines in user-data.txt

EMAIL=mail@example.com
URL=subdomain.duckdns.org
EXTRA_DOMAINS=example.com #Optional
DUCKDNS_SUBDOMAINS=subdomain.duckdns.org
DUCKDNS_TOKEN=duck-dns-token
PLEX_CLAIM=plex-claim-token
TZ=Europe/Brussels

Create instance

Create AWS Lightsail instance via AWS Lightsail CLI

aws lightsail create-instances --instance-names "htpc-vm" --availability-zone eu-west-2a --blueprint-id centos_7_1901_01 --bundle-id medium_2_0 --user-data file://user-data.txt

You can find the script in /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt on the instance

Configure instance

Open ports

aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=443,toPort=443,protocol=TCP --instance-name htpc-vm
aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=32400,toPort=32400,protocol=TCP --instance-name htpc-vm

Assign static IP (optional)

Static IP addresses are free only while attached to an instance. You can manage five at no additional cost.

aws lightsail allocate-static-ip --static-ip-name htpc-vm-static-ip
aws lightsail attach-static-ip --static-ip-name htpc-vm-static-ip --instance-name htpc-vm
aws lightsail get-static-ip --static-ip-name htpc-vm-static-ip | grep ipAddress

Create snapshot (optional)

aws lightsail create-instance-snapshot \
    --instance-name htpc-vm \
    --instance-snapshot-name htpc-vm-snapshot

Restore snapshot (optional)

aws lightsail create-instances-from-snapshot \
    --instance-snapshot-name htpc-vm-snapshot \
    --instance-names htpc-vm \
    --availability-zone eu-west-2a \
    --bundle-id medium_2_0

Application Setup

The applications are available at the following urls with the user/password configured (default: admin/password)

• Plex: https://yoursubdomain.duckdns.org/ (to be configured first, see below)
• Sonarr: https://yoursubdomain.duckdns.org/sonarr
• Radarr: https://yoursubdomain.duckdns.org/radarr
• Bazarr: https://yoursubdomain.duckdns.org/bazarr
• NZBGet: https://yoursubdomain.duckdns.org/nzbget
• NZBHydra: https://yoursubdomain.duckdns.org/nzbhydra
• Ombi: https://yoursubdomain.duckdns.org/ombi (to be configured first, see below)

Download the key file here

chmod 600 LightsailDefaultKey-eu-central-1.pem 

Obtain the public IP

aws lightsail get-instance --instance-name lightsail-htpc-eu-central-vm | grep publicIpAddress

Forward Ombi port (3579) and Plex port (32400) and start configuring the applications via http://localhost:3579 http://localhost:32400/web

ssh -i LightsailDefaultKey-eu-central-1.pem  centos@PUBLIC_IP -L 3579:localhost:3579 -L 32400:localhost:32400