Home Media Servers

What

This repository is a modification of the superb https://www.smarthomebeginner.com/docker-home-media-server-2018-basic tutorial. It is also a mean to learn more about Docker and docker-compose, while adding to it with personal experience.

The aim is to have a simple local deployment for a Home Media server around Plex Media Server for videos and Mopidy for Music

Why

Usually you have to install all these application together on the same machine, and it is often a headach.

It is also a good opportunity to play about with Docker that seems to be omni present in web developpemnt

How

• clone the present repository: git clone github.com/thoroc/home-server
• move to the new folder on your machine
• copy and edit .env.dist as .env
• run make to see a list of available tasks

Usage

help                            Generate list of targets with descriptions
list                            cmd line completion for 'make(space)(tab)'
portainer                       run portainer as stand alone container
start                           run all the containers in detached mode
start_%                         run the declared container
stop                            take all the containers down

Stack

• portainer: orchestrate the containers
• watchtower: update running containers
• plex: media center
• couchpotato: automatic movie download management
• qbittorent: bittorrent client

Plex

1. go to portainer http://localhost:9000 & launch couchpotato from there OR go directly to http://localhost:32400
2. setup Plex
3. setup new Films and TV programmes libraries using /data/movies and /data/tvshows respectively as the directories

CouchPotato

1. go to portainer http://localhost:9000 & launch couchpotato from there OR go directly to http://localhost:5050
2. disable the blackhole feature (permission error encoutered)
3. go to the settings and enable qBittorrent from the Downloaders section with the following:

    host: http://qbittorrent:8090/
    username: admin
    password: adminadmin

see TODO for future plans