Raspberry Pi Media Server

Home media server on Raspberry Pi with Plex and rTorrent.

Features

• Home media server with Plex: Stream downloaded films, series and music to your devices. Compatible with PC, Android, iOS, Chromecast, Fire TV, smart tvs...
• Torrent server with rTorrent: Download torrent files directly on the Raspberry.

Initial setup

Raspberry initial setup

1. Use Raspberry Pi installer to install raspbian (no desktop version) on an SD card.
2. Boot the Raspberry and complete the initial configuration.
3. (Optional) Use the raspi-config command to enable SSH.

From this point forward you can complete the installation from the Raspberry terminal or through SSH.

Mount external storage

1. Connect a hard-drive or SSD to the Raspberry via USB to store the media library.
2. Identify the device running lsblk:

   $ lsblk
   NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
   sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
   └─sda1        8:1    0 931.5G  0 part /mnt/usbdrive

3. Add an entry on /etc/fstab to mount the device on /mnt/media:

   /dev/sda1       /mnt/media      ntfs    defaults        0       1
   

4. Reboot the Raspberry and make sure the disk is mounted on /mnt/media/.

Install docker

1. Install dependencies:

   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y \
        apt-transport-https \
        ca-certificates \
        curl \
        gnupg2 \
        software-properties-common \
        vim \
        fail2ban \
        ntfs-3g

2. Install GPG signatures for the docker repo

   curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88

3. Add docker repo

   echo "deb [arch=armhf] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
        $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | \
   sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

4. Add your user to the group docker

   sudo usermod -a -G docker $YOUR_USERNAME

5. Logout and login.

Starting the media server

Clone this repo on the Raspberry

Clone this repo and cd into it:

sudo apt install -y git
git clone https://github.com/manumarquezg/pi-media-server.git
cd pi-media-server

Start the media server

docker-compose up -d

Check the Raspberry IP in the local network (192.168.1.*) using ifconfig and go to http://<RASPBERRY_IP>/.