TrueNAS Scale

[charlied573 1]

A few searches haven't turned up anything, so I figured it's best to just ask - has there been any work on a version of Emby for Truenas Scale?  

 

Thanks!

[Luke 42077]

Hi, does it have to be different from the normal TrueNAS version?

[charlied573 1]

Yup, Truenas Scale is linux based, not BSD

[Luke 42077]

Ok we'll put it on the list. Thanks.

[Luke 42077]

Actually what Distro is it based on? You could try installing one of our existing Linux packages, whichever one is most closely related. Depending on what it's built on it may just work.

[charlied573 1]

It's based on Debian 11, it appears - I'll give it a shot

[charlied573 1]

The Emby docker image looks to be the easiest bet so far, I'll report back

[Luke 42077]

What happened with our native debian package, did you try that?

[charlied573 1]

Playing around in the Application area, I finally noticed the giant blue button in the upper right:

 

The Docker installed just like an application, so I ran with that first.  If it works easily, then that'll be that; if it causes problems, I'll tackle a different install with the Debian package instead.  Just waiting for the data replication to finish right now.

Edited August 19, 2021 by charlied573

[Luke 42077]

Got it, that's great news at least. Thanks for trying this.

[makarai 109]

thats the debian based truenas OS, right. I have been quite away from my computers/internets for a while (new father over here)

[Luke 42077]

22 hours ago, makarai said:

thats the debian based truenas OS, right. I have been quite away from my computers/internets for a while (new father over here)

Yes it is.

[charlied573 1]

Just as a follow up - the docker worked mostly fine, but I had issues with GPU passthrough.  The 'Truecharts' repository has Emby within, and that worked with a single button press - it also allowed GPU Passthrough to work without a hitch, meaning my NASbox (finally) hardware transcodes anything my users throw at it

This follow up is mostly to help anyone who follows - I know my particular setup isn't exactly common.

Edited September 18, 2021 by charlied573

[Luke 42077]

7 hours ago, charlied573 said:

Just as a follow up - the docker worked mostly fine, but I had issues with GPU passthrough.  The 'Truecharts' repository has Emby within, and that worked with a single button press - it also allowed GPU Passthrough to work without a hitch, meaning my NASbox (finally) hardware transcodes anything my users throw at it

This follow up is mostly to help anyone who follows - I know my particular setup isn't exactly common.

Thanks for the feedback !

[Bingie 99]

On 9/18/2021 at 11:44 AM, charlied573 said:

Just as a follow up - the docker worked mostly fine, but I had issues with GPU passthrough.  The 'Truecharts' repository has Emby within, and that worked with a single button press - it also allowed GPU Passthrough to work without a hitch, meaning my NASbox (finally) hardware transcodes anything my users throw at it

This follow up is mostly to help anyone who follows - I know my particular setup isn't exactly common.

@charlied573 I just installed TrueNAS Scale today, and installed emby using their docker button.  I have it running, can connect to it from a roku box, but can't seem to get the file permissions right.  Editing the emby app, there are 3 different places to set volume access, I'm experimenting with them, but no luck so far.  I have a pool, and samba all setup fine, moved some movies over for testing, but can't figure out how to tell the emby docker how to get to the samba shares.  Still tinkering.  I also saw the gpu passthru setting, but haven't messed with that yet.

I'd appreciate any pointers you can give me to get the emby docker working right thanks

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, Bingie said:

@charlied573 I just installed TrueNAS Scale today, and installed emby using their docker button.  I have it running, can connect to it from a roku box, but can't seem to get the file permissions right.  Editing the emby app, there are 3 different places to set volume access, I'm experimenting with them, but no luck so far.  I have a pool, and samba all setup fine, moved some movies over for testing, but can't figure out how to tell the emby docker how to get to the samba shares.  Still tinkering.  I also saw the gpu passthru setting, but haven't messed with that yet.

I'd appreciate any pointers you can give me to get the emby docker working right thanks

 

[Bingie 99]

Ah, yes, that would explain it.  The logs said permission denied, so I knew it was permissions.  Thanks, that gives me something to go on.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Just now, Bingie said:

Ah, yes, that would explain it.  The logs said permission denied, so I knew it was permissions.  Thanks, that gives me something to go on.

This topic will probably help also.

File Permissions Guide for New Linux Users

[Bingie 99]

admin@truenas:~$ ps -aux | grep Emby
bin        11032  0.9  0.7 3730800 121064 ?      Sl   13:38   0:05 /system/EmbyServer -programdata /config -ffdetect /bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3