nulls212 0 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) I've been frustrated with plex lately, so I've been trying to get emby up and running to see if it might be worth switching too. Unfortunately, I've spent many hours and have yet to get a single item to add to my library. I add a Movie/TV library, point it to the directory which contains movies or tv and attempt to perform a library scan. I've tried multiple docker images to no avail. I find it incredibly strange that it can't find a single file. Some details on my setup: Unraid version: 6.5.3 Docker version: 17.09.1-ce Current container: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/emby/embyserver/, emby/embyserver:latest Library: Movies Folders: /mnt/movies I've attached a console to the docker container and can confirm that I can create files on the mount, as well as read movie files. Example movie paths: /mnt/movies/All\ the\ Way\ \(2016\)/All\ the\ Way\ 2016\ HDTV-1080p.mkv /mnt/movies/Butch\ Cassidy\ and\ the\ Sundance\ Kid\ \(1969\)/Butch\ Cassidy\ and\ the\ Sundance\ Kid\ 1969\ HDTV-720p.mkv emby.txt Edited July 21, 2018 by nulls212 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Hi there, first, can you define exactly what you mean about not being able to find files? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Hi Luke, I have over a thousand movies. When I tell emby to update the library, the scan completes instantly. If you look at the movies library, not a single movie appears. So my library is always completely empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Can you show us a screenshot of how you set things up in emby library setup? thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Hi Luke, you're really onto it with these responses, cheers. See below: I also tried just adding a particular movie as a library folder to see if it'd work (it didn't make a difference): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Is it possible that there's some permissions on the video files that is preventing Emby from seeing them? The install package sets up a system user called emby so that user will need permission on your file system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 If I attach a console to the docker container, I am unable to find a user called "emby". I have root, operator and nobody. if I just execute "head /mnt/movies/Movie/movie.mkv" from attached console, it outputs some metadata, so the root user doesn't seem to have any issue within accessing files. Does the docker container work any differently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 It shouldn't be any different. are the files directly in there or are there any symlinks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 The files are all in there directly, no symlinks. Plex runs off of the same directory structure no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 As a test, can you try removing the library and re-adding using the home videos content type? I'm curious if that comes out any different. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 No luck unfortunately. Library still reports no results. I've also tried resetting all my file permissions in my movies directory, as well as changing emby to use UID 99, GUID 100. Haven't had any luck there either. I find it so strange that I seem to be the only one having this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 how did you set your docker command line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) I set it up via the Docker tab in unraid. I've tried the following to no avail: docker run -d --name='EmbyServer' --net='host' -e TZ="Pacific/Auckland" -e HOST_OS="unRAID" -e 'TCP_PORT_8096'='8096' -e 'UID'='2' -e 'GID'='2' -e 'GIDLIST'='2' -v '/mnt/user':'/mnt':'rw' -v '/mnt/user/appdata/EmbyServer8':'/config':'rw' 'emby/embyserver:latest' docker run -d --name='EmbyServer' --net='host' -e TZ="Pacific/Auckland" -e HOST_OS="unRAID" -e 'TCP_PORT_8096'='8096' -e 'UID'='1004' -e 'GID'='100' -e 'GIDLIST'='100' -v '/mnt/user':'/mnt':'rw' -v '/mnt/user/appdata/EmbyServer8':'/config':'rw' 'emby/embyserver:latest' docker run -d --name='EmbyServer' --net='host' -e TZ="Pacific/Auckland" -e HOST_OS="unRAID" -e 'TCP_PORT_8096'='8096' -e 'UID'='99' -e 'GID'='100' -e 'GIDLIST'='100' -v '/mnt/user':'/mnt':'rw' -v '/mnt/user/appdata/EmbyServer8':'/config':'rw' 'emby/embyserver:latest' Edited July 22, 2018 by nulls212 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 Still trying to escape the clutches of plex, but am still not having any luck with Emby unfortunately. Further to above, I have also tried: Deleting all existing directories from /mnt/user/appdata/Emby* Adding a fresh copy of the https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/emby/embyserver/ image Creating a new user (UID 1005) Changing permissions of all media files to 777 Changing owner of all media files to new user (UID=1005) Setting UID to 1005 for docker container Setting GID to 100 Setting GIDLIST to 100,1005 Meanwhile plex is still chugging along fine. Any more ideas Luke? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 what are the contents of the 10 cloverfield lane folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 That was a quick response! Here is the directory itself: 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 94 Mar 11 13:15 10\ Cloverfield\ Lane\ (2016)/ and the contents: 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 94 Mar 11 13:15 ./ 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 38 Jul 30 19:15 ../ 120K -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 117K Jan 1 2017 10\ Cloverfield\ Lane\ (2016).jpg* 2.8G -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 2.8G Jan 1 2017 10\ Cloverfield\ Lane\ (2016).mkv* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution nulls212 0 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Solution Share Posted July 30, 2018 I've found the problem. I have a dotfile for plex to ignore a particular directory. Upon removing this, emby starts seeing my files. The name of the file is .plexignore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 That's strange. Our ignore file is .ignore. It's not intentional that we'd be ignoring based on that. I will review that. Thanks for getting to the bottom of that ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nulls212 0 Posted July 30, 2018 Author Share Posted July 30, 2018 Thanks for your fantastic support, Luke! I'm beginning a complete transition to Emby now. So, I'll be picking up one of those premiere subscriptions soon. From what I've seen thus far, the UI seems to be super smooth. Kudos to you and your team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37093 Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 Thanks for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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