Plex + Transmission

This project aims to create a bundled project to pull up Plex server and Transmission-cli together and make them work together seamlessly.

The project can be coupled with this Loadbalancer based on nginx-proxy, dockergen and letsencrypt to automatically handle routing and https.

Requirements

You don't need Loadbalancer if you already have a similar solution set up as long as they make use of the environment variables VIRTUAL_HOST and LETSENCRYPT_HOST

You'll need Docker and Docker Compose to test this out.

Configuration

Plex

To configure Plex, you'll need to edit the file Preferences.sample.xml. You'll find the file in ./config/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/

• Rename it to Preferences.xml
• Update customConnections to your ADVERTISE_IP (See below)
• Set PlexOnlineToken, you can get this on plex.com
• Set PlexOnlineUsername with your plex.com username
• Update PlexOnlineMail with the email you use on plex.com
• Finally set a friendly name for your server by setting FriendlyName

Transmission

For Transmission, edit settings.samle.json which you'll find in ./config/ts/

• Rename the file to settings.json
• Set rpc-host-whitelist to your domain for this container (See below VIRTUAL_HOST_TS)
• Set your password by updating rpc-password. After you login the first time, Transmission will hash it automatically
• And finally set a username rpc-username

General config

Now some configuration to expose the containers and make them accessible

• Rename .env.sample to .env in the project root folder
• Set VIRTUAL_HOST_PLEX to the domain you want to use to access Plex Server and VIRTUAL_HOST_TS for the domain you want for Transmission
• To add https you must set LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL_PLEX for Plex and LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL_TS for Transmission
• You need to set PLEX_CLAIM to bind your server to your plex.com account
• Also set PLEX_HOSTNAME to the domain you want Plex to have. It should be the same as one of the values in VIRTUAL_HOST_PLEX
• To wrap it up, set PLEX_ADVERTISE_IP to the ip reaching your server or a dedicated domain.

Notice

This is just a proof of concept. I cannot be liable if you use this project for piracy or otherwise illegal activity.