Jellyfin

Easy to set up Jellyfin media server.

Running the server

docker run --detach --name jellyfin --publish 8096:8096 hetsh/jellyfin

Stopping the container

docker stop jellyfin

Configuration

Jellyfin is configured via its web interface. A configuration wizard will guide you through the initial setup if you run the server for the first time.

Creating persistent storage

DATA_STORAGE="/path/to/data"
CONFIG_STORAGE="/path/to/conf"
CACHE_STORAGE="/path/to/data"
mkdir -p "$DATA_STORAGE" "$CONFIG_STORAGE" "$CACHE_STORAGE"
chown -R 1365:1365 "$DATA_STORAGE" "$CONFIG_STORAGE" "$CACHE_STORAGE"

1365 is the numerical id of the user running the server (see Dockerfile). The user must have RW access to the storage directories. Start the server with the additional mount flags:

docker run \
--mount type=bind,source=/path/to/data,target=/var/lib/jellyfin \
--mount type=bind,source=/path/to/conf,target=/etc/jellyfin \
--mount type=bind,source=/path/to/cache,target=/var/cache/jellyfin ...

Adding media

Media can be mounted anywhere, as long as it is readable by the jellyfin user (uid: 1365):

docker run --mount type=bind,source=/path/to/media,target=/media ...

Time

Synchronizing the timezones will display the correct time in the logs. The timezone can be shared with this mount flag:

docker run --mount type=bind,source=/etc/localtime,target=/etc/localtime,readonly ...

Automate startup and shutdown via systemd

The systemd unit can be found in my GitHub repository.

systemctl enable jellyfin --now

By default, the systemd service assumes some custom paths for data, cache, config, media and /etc/localtime for timezone. Since this is a personal systemd unit file, you might need to adjust some parameters to suit your setup.

Fork Me!

This is an open project hosted on GitHub. Please feel free to ask questions, file an issue or contribute to it.