native Emby Server Ugreen NASync

[Blueskies278 40]

@Davey'sHave you decided on the OS?

[Davey's 37]

Yeah for now ill give Ugos a try, i hope for a native Emby package in the near future. Thanks @Blueskies278

[Luke 42101]

The latest information I have is that they're hoping to launch support for installable apps in March and that we'll be one of the first.

Until then it will require rolling up your sleeves a little to get the debian package installed.

[Newman909 2]

On 08/12/2025 at 21:02, Luke said:

The latest information I have is that they're hoping to launch support for installable apps in March and that we'll be one of the first.

Until then it will require rolling up your sleeves a little to get the debian package installed.

That's great to hear! I will be on the lookout for this and if it works well i'll be getting lifetime Premiere for sure.

Edited December 14, 2025 by Newman909

[Tech127 20]

Getting mine setup and going today.  I'm old to emby but relatively new to linux so be gentle lol.

CLI Deb install went perfectly.  I can't add my media libraries though.  I assume it's a permissions issue (this is where I struggle the most with nix) since "access is denied".  I can see the /volume1/media directory in the Emby GUI, but nothing inside that directory.  Are y'all accessing the libraries through SMB or directly?  I'd prefer directly, but don't know how to do this.  Pls help!

PS: +1 on the native, @Luke.  I think that will be awesome!!

Edited January 22 by Tech127

[Tech127 20]

Update:

chmod -R 755 /media

and it was now accessible

Relocated all the emby working folders to the m.2 I added to the unas for apps, created a /apps/emby directory and subs for transcode, cache, metadata, etc then

chown -R emby:emby emby

 and

chmod 755 -R /apps/emby 

and everything seems happy now

If this is incorrect, PLEASE advise.  Thanks!!

[Davey's 37]

Off topic;)

 

I'm wondering if this is useful for Navidrome (see Mariushosting). I can't get it to work under Ugos; it doesn't read the contents of the specified folder. Thanks! @Tech127I'll try to implement this later.

[Newman909 2]

On 08/12/2025 at 21:02, Luke said:

The latest information I have is that they're hoping to launch support for installable apps in March and that we'll be one of the first.

Until then it will require rolling up your sleeves a little to get the debian package installed.

Anyone update yet?

[Luke 42101]

33 minutes ago, Newman909 said:

Anyone update yet?

Hi, we haven’t gotten any new info from them yet but it’s also not yet March either. But as we get closer we can ask them for an update.

[Tech127 20]

As a quick update, things are going VERY well.  Fortunately I bought the dxp4800 plus late enough that it's still under the return window so I'm switching to a dxp4800 pro as we speak.  That being said, before I install emby over there and move stuff, I have a m.2 in there for all the docker stuff, etc.  When I install emby, can I point it to that drive so it isn't on the os drive or is that a bad idea?  I like the idea of keeping stuff separate from the os drive, but I don't want to be too narcissistic lol

(And yes, I  know I can run it in docker, but I don't want unneeded layers in the middle)

Edited February 14 by Tech127

[somy 25]

Hi, I’m considering to switch from Qnap to UGREEN 4800Pro, are you guys running UGOS Pro and happy with it? 

[Jutsch80 13]

4 hours ago, Tech127 said:

As a quick update, things are going VERY well.  Fortunately I bought the dxp4800 plus late enough that it's still under the return window so I'm switching to a dxp4800 pro as we speak.  That being said, before I install emby over there and move stuff, I have a m.2 in there for all the docker stuff, etc.  When I install emby, can I point it to that drive so it isn't on the os drive or is that a bad idea?  I like the idea of keeping stuff separate from the os drive, but I don't want to be too narcissistic lol

(And yes, I  know I can run it in docker, but I don't want unneeded layers in the middle)

The OS on the Ugreen lives on the internal storage so you can't install anything there anyway. I do install any app on the SSD for speed and power savings, I also have my user folders there. Quick access, low power consumption. The HDD on the other hand I only use for large media files I won't access all the time, that combined with active sleep mode option for the HDD makes it possible that the HDD in my Ugreen NAS are asleep 70-80% of the times, on some days even more. 

26 minutes ago, somy said:

Hi, I’m considering to switch from Qnap to UGREEN 4800Pro, are you guys running UGOS Pro and happy with it? 

I'm running UGOS Pro and so far I have not seen a reason to switch to a third party OS. If anyone knows any benefit to that, I'd love to read it

[Davey's 37]

I'm considering running Proxmox on the dxp6800 to get started with Tdarr and Frigate, and possibly adding a low-profile graphics card in the near future. I'm also curious how Emby will perform in a Docker environment. I also want to see if I can swap the SSD on which UGOS is installed, so I can always boot into UGOS if I install the correct SSD.

[somy 25]

6 hours ago, Davey's said:

I'm considering running Proxmox on the dxp6800 to get started with Tdarr and Frigate, and possibly adding a low-profile graphics card in the near future. I'm also curious how Emby will perform in a Docker environment. I also want to see if I can swap the SSD on which UGOS is installed, so I can always boot into UGOS if I install the correct SSD.

Can you not run tdarr and frigate on UGOS? 

[somy 25]

6 hours ago, Jutsch80 said:

The OS on the Ugreen lives on the internal storage so you can't install anything there anyway. I do install any app on the SSD for speed and power savings, I also have my user folders there. Quick access, low power consumption. The HDD on the other hand I only use for large media files I won't access all the time, that combined with active sleep mode option for the HDD makes it possible that the HDD in my Ugreen NAS are asleep 70-80% of the times, on some days even more. 

I'm running UGOS Pro and so far I have not seen a reason to switch to a third party OS. If anyone knows any benefit to that, I'd love to read it

Thanks, so far what I learned missing features that I'm using with my QNAP

1) Volume encyrption - probably the only showstopper I can think of

2) Backup to cloud - there is sync but no backup, but there is Duplicacy so not showstopper

3) There is VM and docker, I need Home Assistant, Emby, Frigate, Immich and a few other containers, they should run fine on UGOS

Hope they add volume encryption and SED soon.

 

[TDriver 53]

This should help some of you with the Emby installation

https://github.com/Railsimulatornet/Emby-Telerising-EasyEPG-DockerPack-UGREEN-NAS

[Jutsch80 13]

1 hour ago, TDriver said:

This should help some of you with the Emby installation

https://github.com/Railsimulatornet/Emby-Telerising-EasyEPG-DockerPack-UGREEN-NAS

Did you get telerising to work?

[TDriver 53]

@Jutsch80Yes, by the way, all of that is also covered in the 30-page installation and setup manual. Feel free to take a look, it answers a lot of questions.

Edited February 14 by TDriver

[Jutsch80 13]

9 minutes ago, TDriver said:

@Jutsch80Yes, by the way, all of that is also covered in the 30-page installation and setup manual. Feel free to take a look, it answers a lot of questions.

I did read the manual, telerising installs nicely, I can enter all my data from Zattoo, it says everything is fine but I can't reach any of the streams

[TDriver 53]

Sorry, but without a detailed description of what you’re doing (and what exactly happens), it’s impossible to help you.

Did you run a direct test from Telerising itself? If not, please do that first under WATCH TV.

What exactly is failing? What settings did you configure? Are no streams working in Emby? Which device/NAS model are you using?

Also, did you enable “Enable ‘.m3u8’/‘.mpd’ link Extension” in Telerising as described in the guide, and only then generate the M3U?

Without clear screenshots and more details, there’s unfortunately no way to diagnose this properly.

[Jutsch80 13]

23 minutes ago, TDriver said:

Sorry, but without a detailed description of what you’re doing (and what exactly happens), it’s impossible to help you.

Did you run a direct test from Telerising itself? If not, please do that first under WATCH TV.

What exactly is failing? What settings did you configure? Are no streams working in Emby? Which device/NAS model are you using?

Also, did you enable “Enable ‘.m3u8’/‘.mpd’ link Extension” in Telerising as described in the guide, and only then generate the M3U?

Without clear screenshots and more details, there’s unfortunately no way to diagnose this properly.

Thank you so much, the issue has been solved already. 100% my fault because I overlooked that I had to set a custom IP path. 

[TDriver 53]

Great, I'm glad to hear that! Then I hope you enjoy the new Emby Telerising / EasyEPG package

[Cougar55 0]

Having a heck of a time getting Emby running on a DXP2800.  I installed Emby (the Linux edition) without using Docker.  I have been able to create libraries under a main "Media" shared folder.  Emby seems unable to get file permission to access any of these files. It makes no difference whether I have transcoding on or not. I get the "No compatible streams available" error code. For instance, when trying to play the 2 Guns.mkv file the log says "/volume2/Media/Movies/2 Guns/2Guns.mkv: Permission denied".  All the users have read/write access to the Media folder and all subfolders and files from with ugos. All the existing users are in a group I created and the group has all the permissions to read/write as well. Still, no joy getting it to play or get any new metadata.  I no longer know what else to do.  The files and folders themselves when listed on Linux show the file owner to be one of my administrators and the group to be the one I created in ugos. They have 777 permissions.  What am I missing here? Is there something special I must do when creating an Emby user from within Emby?

Edited 1 hour ago by Cougar55