native Emby Server Ugreen NASync

[Shaneholmes79 1]

38 minutes ago, TDriver said:

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Please check the instructions below from me.

 

One minute of Google searching and I find this tutorial too.

https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-emby-with-hardware-transcoding-on-your-ugreen-nas/

 

Thanks,  yours appears to be in German?

[Shaneholmes79 1]

On 3/29/2025 at 2:28 PM, hdsuisse said:

Installed "emby-server-deb_4.9.0.42_amd64.deb" on my Ugreen DXP4800Plus with UgosPro1.2.0.2 and it works like charm

only need to manually adjust the folder permissions for emby !

There should be nothing standing in the way of an official version for Ugreen Nas

 

 

Hi. Any chance you could give instructions like where to get file and how to do this please ?

 

[Luke 42077]

36 minutes ago, Shaneholmes79 said:

Hi. Any chance you could give instructions like where to get file and how to do this please ?

 

I think he's probably just following our regular linux instructions:

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

@hdsuisseis that right?

[Shaneholmes79 1]

On 3/29/2025 at 2:28 PM, hdsuisse said:

Installed "emby-server-deb_4.9.0.42_amd64.deb" on my Ugreen DXP4800Plus with UgosPro1.2.0.2 and it works like charm

only need to manually adjust the folder permissions for emby !

There should be nothing standing in the way of an official version for Ugreen Nas

 

 

Hi. Any chance you could give instructions like where to get file and how to do this please ?

 

[Shaneholmes79 1]

Thanks, but it can't see my folders

[Luke 42077]

6 hours ago, Shaneholmes79 said:

Thanks, but it can't see my folders

Hi, what exactly do you mean by "can't see my folders" ?

[Shaneholmes79 1]

On 3/29/2025 at 2:28 PM, hdsuisse said:

Installed "emby-server-deb_4.9.0.42_amd64.deb" on my Ugreen DXP4800Plus with UgosPro1.2.0.2 and it works like charm

only need to manually adjust the folder permissions for emby !

There should be nothing standing in the way of an official version for Ugreen Nas

 

 

Hi. Any chance you could give instructions like where to get file and how to do this please ?

 

[Shaneholmes79 1]

On 4/11/2025 at 2:40 PM, Luke said:

Hi, what exactly do you mean by "can't see my folders" ?

Hi. Ignore above. When looking to add media the volume1 option etc isn't there

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, Shaneholmes79 said:

Hi. Ignore above. When looking to add media the volume1 option etc isn't there

Did you try typing in the path manually?

[Shaneholmes79 1]

Well, I've given up. If you need people to help with installing it as a beta package using manual install let me know. I have 3 weeks of my emby trial left then I'll just god damn Plex it or jellyfin. YouTube guide for Plex and jellyfin is in its app store which boggles my mind

[wasyl00 2]

21 minutes ago, Shaneholmes79 said:

Well, I've given up. 

What stopping you from following this step by step guide?

https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-emby-with-hardware-transcoding-on-your-ugreen-nas/

[TDriver 53]

On 4/10/2025 at 6:28 PM, Shaneholmes79 said:

Thanks,  yours appears to be in German?

That's right. I live in Germany

[Shaneholmes79 1]

On 3/29/2025 at 8:36 PM, ebr said:

Stay tuned.

Any update or ETA please?

[TDriver 53]

I don't think a native Emby server app would be released anytime soon. That would be a quick fix for the Emby team, so I've been using Docker containers for over a year.

I can only recommend this approach, it's better than waiting years for a native app.

[Luke 42077]

HI, we have been in contact with ugreen. I don't have an ETA but hopefully in the near future we'll have something. Until then, community members here have been able to figure out both the docker and debian packages, so you could take your pick between those. Any ugreen package we do would most likely just be the debian/ubuntu package rewrapped anyway.

[Shaneholmes79 1]

On 4/12/2025 at 7:33 PM, Luke said:

Did you try typing in the path manually?

If I put in SMB://192.168 etc will that slow it down rather than just pointing to the folder which isn't there?

[Luke 42077]

5 hours ago, Shaneholmes79 said:

If I put in SMB://192.168 etc will that slow it down rather than just pointing to the folder which isn't there?

Is the folder on the same NAS or on another machine?

[Shaneholmes79 1]

14 hours ago, Luke said:

Is the folder on the same NAS or on another machine?

Same nas

[Luke 42077]

On 4/20/2025 at 6:15 AM, Shaneholmes79 said:

Same nas

Then I would keep things simple and just import using a local path rather a network path. By adding the network path, you're not only adding overhead but also more possible points of failure.

[AndreiP 33]

Did anyone use Emby on an Ugreen NAS?  It really works?
I consider buy a Ugreen Nas and install Emby on it. But I prefer to be sure that it will work with no issues

 

On 4/16/2025 at 3:09 PM, Luke said:

HI, we have been in contact with ugreen. I don't have an ETA but hopefully in the near future we'll have something. Until then, community members here have been able to figure out both the docker and debian packages, so you could take your pick between those. Any ugreen package we do would most likely just be the debian/ubuntu package rewrapped anyway.

If I understand right it works with Docker or directlly by installing a Debian package. Which one is better and why? 
If anyone is using Emby with Ugreen, could you please share here which choice you made and why.

[Luke 42077]

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Which one is better and why? 

If you create a topic about this in the linux section I'm sure you'll get lots of interesting responses. It's not really a ugreen-specific question.

[brothom 177]

12 hours ago, AndreiP said:

If I understand right it works with Docker or directlly by installing a Debian package. Which one is better and why? 

Effectively anything that runs on bare metal (that means without any virtualisation like Docker, VMWare etc) should experience a significant performance boost. Running Emby or anything for that matter in a virtualised environment is basically the same as running two operation systems inside of each other.

People are fond of systems like Docker because it's "fire and forget" but get mad when they accidentally delete their Docker images and lose their data. 

Personally I prefer to run any longterm services directly from within the OS. I have a Windows 10 server (basically a repurposed laptop) which runs Emby on it just fine and would run significantly slower if I were to use Docker or any such system.

 

12 hours ago, Luke said:

If you create a topic about this in the linux section I'm sure you'll get lots of interesting responses. It's not really a ugreen-specific question.

You're right but I couldn't contain myself.

[steamhead 10]

To add some further feedback to the Debian package install method, I've just installed Emby using the deb package on a DXP8600 and it is working wonderfully.

Some points to consider though for better UGreen integration.

• As mentioned before there definitely needs to be a way to integrate the emby user into the UGOS UI.  The workaround of creating a UGreen group and then adding the emby user to the group by editing the groups file works, but could be a bit daunting to some.
• The install puts all the emby stuff on the system SSD, whereas UGreen apps let you pick a destination elsewhere which is probably a good precaution for people with large databases, to avoid swamping the system disk.  For now, to avoid this I've pointed /var/lib/emby to another storage group by a symbolic link.
• I used the "systemctl enable emby-server.service" command to try and get emby to start automatically with the server.  On startup of the NAS I get an error complaining about /var/lib/emby already existing, which seems a bit odd given it contains persitent data.  However if I issue "systemctl start emby-server" it starts fine.  I suspect it may be something to do with the redirect of /var/lib/emby but I've not figured it out yet.  Until then I just have to remember to start emby manually.

[brothom 177]

16 hours ago, steamhead said:

To add some further feedback to the Debian package install method, I've just installed Emby using the deb package on a DXP8600 and it is working wonderfully.

Some points to consider though for better UGreen integration.

• As mentioned before there definitely needs to be a way to integrate the emby user into the UGOS UI.  The workaround of creating a UGreen group and then adding the emby user to the group by editing the groups file works, but could be a bit daunting to some.
• The install puts all the emby stuff on the system SSD, whereas UGreen apps let you pick a destination elsewhere which is probably a good precaution for people with large databases, to avoid swamping the system disk.  For now, to avoid this I've pointed /var/lib/emby to another storage group by a symbolic link.
• I used the "systemctl enable emby-server.service" command to try and get emby to start automatically with the server.  On startup of the NAS I get an error complaining about /var/lib/emby already existing, which seems a bit odd given it contains persitent data.  However if I issue "systemctl start emby-server" it starts fine.  I suspect it may be something to do with the redirect of /var/lib/emby but I've not figured it out yet.  Until then I just have to remember to start emby manually.

Unfortunately these sound like typical Linux issues. 

> As mentioned before there definitely needs to be a way to integrate the emby user into the UGOS UI. 
Usually the software itself creates users for itself, Apache is a prime example of this to the frustration of many. The software can't easily "take over" an existing user.

> The install puts all the emby stuff on the system SSD
Coming from managed environments like Windows or OSX this seems logical. Linux, again, has found a way to make this a little more difficult: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/495167/installing-deb-to-a-different-directory. 
Unfortunately that's just how Linux environments work by default.

> I used the "systemctl enable emby-server.service" command to try and get emby to start automatically with the server.
These are two different methods and I would suggest ALWAYS running `systemctl start/stop service` because that it "wrapped" so that tasks can be executed around it and even listen to it. 

> Until then I just have to remember to start emby manually.
Perhaps a simple `sudo systemctl enable emby-server` would be enough to register em as a boot service.

[steamhead 10]

>Perhaps a simple `sudo systemctl enable emby-server` would be enough to register em as a boot service.

As mentioned I already tried that.  The service is registered and tries to start on boot, but throws an exception complaining about /var/lib/emby already existing.  But no such complaint if I try and start it after the boot.  Not sure what is going off there.