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I'm trying to build a standalone Emby server with an embedded Intel i7 board.

 

I installed FreeBSD 11.2 amd64. That seemed to have worked as advertised.

 

I came here and just followed the instructions https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html but it fails at step 2. 

pkg: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.3.0.15/emby-server-freebsd11_4.3.0.15_amd64.txz: Authentication error

I do not know FreeBSD beond just running the installer and logging in.

 

Anyone care to help me out?

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you should install it with package

-pkg install emby-server

 

 

for other method like port or using beta, you should wait to master your skills on FreeBSD

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This is the command that is given on the download page

root@:~ # pkg add -f https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.3.0.15/emby-server-freebsd11_4.3.0.15_amd64.txz

Don't really want to master BSD. This box will only ever run emby. once its running i dont want to have to think about it.

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This is the command that is given on the download page

root@:~ # pkg add -f https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/download/4.3.0.15/emby-server-freebsd11_4.3.0.15_amd64.txz

Don't really want to master BSD. This box will only ever run emby. once its running i dont want to have to think about it.

then,  in my opinion, you should you use : pkg install emby-server then pkg upgrade from time to time

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pkg install emby-server

 

This command returns:

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        emby-server: 4.2.1.0

that's a few revisions old isn't it? Is that ok?

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then,  in my opinion, you should you use : pkg install emby-server then pkg upgrade from time to time

 

Agreed. It sounds like you just want to set it and forget it, so why choose the beta install?

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I was just blindly following the install page instructions. didn't realize it was beta.

 

Ok its installing now. Once that is done do I need to set anything else for it to run on boot?

 

And I just browse to it on port :8096 and configure from there?

 

Thanks!

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I was just blindly following the install page instructions. didn't realize it was beta.

 

Ok its installing now. Once that is done do I need to set anything else for it to run on boot?

 

And I just browse to it on port :8096 and configure from there?

 

Thanks!

 

https://emby.media/freebsd-server.html

 

Let us know if this is not sufficient and we will improve the instructions. Thanks.

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I was just blindly following the install page instructions. didn't realize it was beta.

 

Ok its installing now. Once that is done do I need to set anything else for it to run on boot?

 

And I just browse to it on port :8096 and configure from there?

 

Thanks!

sysrc emby_server_enable="YES"
service emby-server start
 
to enable start and start on boot
 
then you will be able to go to your_ip:8096
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Yes. It is up and running now and it starts on reboot.

 

I think the last thing is mounting and using the hard drive. FreeDBS and Emby are installed to a small SD. I have a large HDD installed for media but I think its not mounted, can't find it.

 

I'm reading up on it now. I think it's ID is ada0.

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Well following one of the 10 different ways the internet says to mount the hdd has killed the system. It wont even boot at all now. 

 

I wish there was an easier way to do this...

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hyperlink corrected sorry

No It was much more like :  the handbook is really well done and well classified so you don't have to go on obscure website to find the response to your interrogation and you don't need to read hundreds of page

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No. I know. I was just making some light of my situation. I appreciate the link to the manual. The manual is certainly complete and I'm sure it is comprehensive to a computer scientist. But It is entirely overwhelming for me to even begin to know how to use it to solve this trivial and mundane task of mounting a HDD. 

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So for instance. I go to https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mount-unmount.html and read about fstab. because I want to mount a hdd with an existing ntfs partition that contains all of the media i wan to put on my emby server.

 

It gives explanation for each parameter but I've read it three times now and dont know what to type.

 

I know that if I add the line: but I am just guessing by looking at the other entries.

/dev/ada0p1      /media            ntfs    rw      0       0

my system no longer boots 

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also I could find where the manual explained what the correct fstype syntax should be for a ntfs file system. I just put "ntfs" it's just a guess..

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I had embarrassed myself with a rant. I thought that no one at FreeBSD had replied to my post asking for help with mounting that hard drive. turns out that I was not being notified of the post. I was not subscribed to my own post I guess. Could have sworn that I was. 

 

They helped immensely. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/help-install-a-hdd-to-existing-11-2-system.72708/

 

I redacted my rant. and replaced it with "Oops"

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Well. It's all done. (I hope) The server is running. Its a sleek little box. You could slide it between two small books on a book shelf and never notice it. I can access it through SSH to manage the server and FTP to manage the media content on the storage drive.

 

It seems to be working well with the little ROKU Express boxes I have in the house too. I even get surround sound.

 

It was a royal pain in the ass though.

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