Delay the Start of Emby at Boot

[EODCrafter 181]

Is this the correct way to delay the start of Emby at Boot on Ubuntu? I have a program that Emby causes DLNA conflict with that needs to run first....

[Unit]
Description=Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
After=network.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/emby-server.conf
WorkingDirectory=/opt/emby-server
ExecStartPre=-/bin/sleep 20
ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server
RestartForceExitStatus=3
User=emby

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This is what I found by googling.....

 

ExecStartPre=-/bin/sleep 20

[mastrmind11 722]

seems reasonable to me.

[Luke 42078]

Yes, please try it and report your experience. Thanks.

[redaktorn 23]

I was also interested in delaying the start of emby in my Linux system.
My reason was that emby-service started before network connection was ready.
This caused the built in search for updates (aplication and plugin) to fail at startup + DLNA does not load.
(Both can of course be fixed after starting emby - but I wanted it done at boot)

My way of doing it was:
Copy files: emby-server.service and emby-server@.service (Now correct name)
From:  /usr/lib/systemd/system/
To:  /etc/systemd/system/

In both files edit section [Service] so it looks like this:

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/emby-server.conf
WorkingDirectory=/opt/emby-server
ExecStartPre=-/bin/sleep 30
ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server
RestartForceExitStatus=3
User=emby

(Thanks to EODCrafter above for the red line. I just changed delay 20 to 30)

The reason I prefer to copy the files before editing is that /etc/systemd/system/ has priority over /usr/lib/systemd/system/.
Changes will be more permanent.

This works just fine for me running Linux Mint Mate version 19.3
I have noted no problems at all.
And I can enjoy that search for updates and DLNA works as they should already from boot.

Edit: Fix a small error on filename. The second file to copy is emby-server@.service (not embyserver@.service as it said before)

Edited May 16, 2021 by redaktorn
Fixed an error - wrong filename

[Luke 42078]

^ That's great, thanks for the info !

[Pseudomax 3]

On 28/07/2020 at 18:44, redaktorn said:

I was also interested in delaying the start of emby in my Linux system.
My reason was that emby-service started before network connection was ready.
This caused the built in search for updates (aplication and plugin) to fail at startup + DLNA does not load.
(Both can of course be fixed after starting emby - but I wanted it done at boot)

My way of doing it was:
Copy files: emby-server.service and emby-server@.service (Now correct name)
From:  /usr/lib/systemd/system/
To:  /etc/systemd/system/

In both files edit section [Service] so it looks like this:

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/emby-server.conf
WorkingDirectory=/opt/emby-server
ExecStartPre=-/bin/sleep 30
ExecStart=/opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server
RestartForceExitStatus=3
User=emby

(Thanks to EODCrafter above for the red line. I just changed delay 20 to 30)

The reason I prefer to copy the files before editing is that /etc/systemd/system/ has priority over /usr/lib/systemd/system/.
Changes will be more permanent.

This works just fine for me running Linux Mint Mate version 19.3
I have noted no problems at all.
And I can enjoy that search for updates and DLNA works as they should already from boot.

Edit: Fix a small error on filename. The second file to copy is emby-server@.service (not embyserver@.service as it said before)

Hi, thanks for this... very useful!!

 

Also just for absolute clarity: when you say 'copy files' from:  /usr/lib/systemd/system/ to:  /etc/systemd/system/ I have assumed you obviously mean 'move files' ...

[redaktorn 23]

4 minutes ago, Pseudomax said:

Hi, thanks for this... very useful!!

 

Also just for absolute clarity: when you say 'copy files' from:  /usr/lib/systemd/system/ to:  /etc/systemd/system/ I have assumed you obviously mean 'move files' ...

Copy or move, it does not matter. /etc/systemd/system takes priority.