Gecko 61 Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Hello the Emby Community I recently created a script to auto-update Emby-Server (on Ubuntu) today and wanted to share it with you. I know there are other versions on the forum, but none were customizable the way I wanted it to be. Here are the possibilities with this version : is able to look for stable only or any latest releases is able to fetch a specific release can ask for a user confirmation before installing anything (in case you run it manually) The script will never downgrade a version without asking you first, so there is no risk breaking Emby by downgrading from beta to stable. By default, only stable releases are installed AFTER asking your permission. Here's the help text : Auto-update Emby-Server to the very last version found on github ---------------------------------------------------------------- The user can either choose the stable or beta branch A user confirmation can be requested before installing a new version When no options are given : -> only Stable releases are looked for -> a user confirmation is mandatory Options: --stable Only look for the latest Stable release --latest Only look for the latest (Beta or Stable) release --version Specify a version to install as a 2nd argument If no argument is provided, display a list of all available versions on Github -s, --silent Do not ask for a user input when a new version is found -h, --help Print this help You can run it manually or to schedule it, you can copy the emby_updater.sh to any directory and then use the below script from the same directory. This will : copy the updater into the default directory of Emby (/opt/emby-server) activate the updater 5 minutes after every reboot (OnBootSec=5min) activate the updater every night at 6AM (OnCalendar=*-*-* 06:00:00) activate the update at any other time if the last start date was missed (Persistent=true) allow any new version, beta or stable (--latest flag) to be automatically installed (--silent flag) mkdir -p /opt/emby-server/updater cp emby_updater.sh /opt/emby-server/updater/ chmod +x /opt/emby-server/updater/emby_updater.sh echo "[Unit] Description=Auto-update Emby-Server on a schedule [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/bin/bash /opt/emby-server/updater/emby_updater.sh --latest --silent " > /etc/systemd/system/emby_updater.service echo "[Unit] Description=Auto-update Emby-Server on a schedule [Timer] OnBootSec=5min OnCalendar=*-*-* 06:00:00 Persistent=true [Install] WantedBy=timers.target " > /etc/systemd/system/emby_updater.timer systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable emby_updater.timer systemctl start emby_updater.timer Enjoy ! emby_updater.sh 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37095 Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Hi, very cool. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesite 2 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Hi, nice script thx if emby server is running i have so restart it after the update for automatic update i have enter the following lines after line 44 # stopping emby before updating echo -e " -> Stopping Emby-Server $emby_candidate_version ..." systemctl stop emby-server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko 61 Posted December 14, 2023 Author Share Posted December 14, 2023 11 hours ago, bluesite said: Hi, nice script thx if emby server is running i have so restart it after the update for automatic update i have enter the following lines after line 44 # stopping emby before updating echo -e " -> Stopping Emby-Server $emby_candidate_version ..." systemctl stop emby-server Yeah the official updater should take care of the start&stop of the running Emby-server process but in case it doesn't, what you added is exactly what was missing in the script. You shouldn't have to restart it manually after the update thought as systemctl start emby-server is already in the script on line #63. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesite 2 Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 if i run your script for the update i got the message on emby at the settings that i have to restart the service the service did not restart automaticly here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMCsw 122 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 On 10/3/2023 at 11:17 AM, Gecko said: I know there are other versions on the forum, but none were customizable the way I wanted it to be. May I suggest you add something like this: ARC=$(dpkg –print-architecture) Then change the lines like: grep_filter=".*https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/${version}/emby-server-deb_${version}_amd64.deb\"$" To: grep_filter=".*https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/${version}/emby-server-deb_${version}_${ARC}.deb\"$" This should make it work for all (or at least most?) Debian based OS’s (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Mate... Pi(&Pi like...)...) that emby can run on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raidflex 9 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 (edited) This script does not work for me on a LXC container using Ubuntu 22.04. I receive the below error. root@Emby:/opt/emby-server/updater# ./emby_updater.sh --latest --silent ./emby_updater.sh: line 135: syntax error near unexpected token `then' ./emby_updater.sh: line 135: ` if [[ $emby_installed_version == $emby_candidate_version ]] then' root@Emby:/opt/emby-server/updater# Edited January 2 by raidflex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raidflex 9 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Nvm fixed the issue, just missing the ";" at the end of line 135. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko 61 Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 (edited) On 1/6/2024 at 7:27 PM, raidflex said: Nvm fixed the issue, just missing the ";" at the end of line 135. Gosh didn't saw that one, thank you for the correction ! I cannot update my initial post so here's the script with the updates and ideas from @bluesite, @raidflexand @TMCsw. Thanks you all! emby_updater.sh Edited January 9 by Gecko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raidflex 9 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 14 minutes ago, Gecko said: Gosh didn't saw that one, thank you for the correction ! I cannot update my initial post so here's the script with the updates and ideas from @bluesite, @raidflexand @TMCsw. Thanks you all! emby_updater.sh 8.97 kB · 0 downloads Thanks for the script it's working great! Just recently setup a Proxmox server and trying to get as much automated as possible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oratorian 10 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 I am testing a selfhosted repository that I created for emby. I took @Geckoscript, and modified it for my needs, It just checks for updated binaries, downloads them and puts them into the repo. At the moment it only supports the i386/amd64 releases of emby. I will add the others by due time. I created two releases, one for stable and one for beta. echo 'deb https://repo.amhosting.de/ubuntu beta main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emby.list or echo 'deb https://repo.amhosting.de/ubuntu stable main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emby.list The Repository is signed with the following Key : 3B6E90FE3203A81F Import it : curl -fsSl https://repo.amhosting.de/repo-key.pub | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/repo.amhosting.gpg After that you should be able to install emby with sudo apt install emby-server This Repo also works for all Debian based systems. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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