Cannot Manually Create A New Emby Server

[cgcmgr 28]

Took me a while to try this, but finally got around to it today.  The steps laid out by nmalinoski worked.  I now have Emby 4.9.running on a 13.5-RELEASE-p8 Jail on TrueNAs Core 13.0-U6.7

Thank you for this

 

Chris

[cgcmgr 28]

Edit - I actually used Emby 4.9.1.90 rather than 4.9.1.80 and it works.

[Luke 42128]

On 12/30/2025 at 1:35 PM, cgcmgr said:

Edit - I actually used Emby 4.9.1.90 rather than 4.9.1.80 and it works.

How did you install Emby Server?

[cgcmgr 28]

8 hours ago, Luke said:

How did you install Emby Server?

I followed the steps laid out by NYPD54 and nmalinoski on page 2 of this thread.  The only thing I did was I substituted 4.9.1.90 for 4.9.1.80.  Everything seems to be working smoothly.

[bolok 18]

FWIW, current beta version is working too on a truenas core 13.5 jail

Had to change the pkg settings in /etc/pkg to pull latest instead of quarterly to get the 1.2 version of libtheora.  But otherwise it seems to be working still.

 

Ended up making a fresh jail, as i broke something going from 4.9.27 straight to 4.9.41. Seems to be a dotnet8 issue, but i'll have to see if I can sort that out later.  I have known good snapshots I can mess with, but setting up a new jail and copying over the server dir backups works well enough.

[cgcmgr 28]

Good to know.  So my Emby 4.9.1.90, which is in a 13.5 Jail, is showing there is an update to 4.9.3.0 available.  Would you know if I can just install 4.9.3.0 and I'll be good, or would I need to edit the package settings as you did before hand.  If I don't edit the package, I'm assuming I'll get the message that libtheora 1.2 is missing?  Would I just be able to do a pkg add libtheora 1.2 and then install Emby 4.9.3.0?

[nmalinoski 3]

Perhaps it's been long enough for the package to have been updated, but I just installed 4.9.3.0 by shutting down the emby-server service, running `pkg update`, and then running `pkg add` with the URL for the new version. After starting it, it came back up fine, but requested another restart to finish updating. After that, it seems to be running fine.