pi4 + archlinux +emby

[archlinux 0]

Hello there!

 

Emby has a build for archlinux. 

Emby has a build for the pi4 (debian).

 

Can it run on armv7h with arch linux?

 $uname -aLinux pi4 4.19.58-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 16 01:25:23 UTC 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

 

I used debtab to convert to an armv7h arch package, then installed

sudo pacman -U emby-server-4.2.0.33-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz  (1/1) installing emby-server                                                                                         [#######################################################################] 100%
/tmp/alpm_iTdiS9/.INSTALL: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/tmp/alpm_iTdiS9/.INSTALL: line 3: `}'
/usr/bin/bash: post_upgrade: command not found
error: command failed to execute correctly
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Reloading system manager configuration...
(2/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...


[root@pi4 pi]# systemctl status emby-server
* emby-server.service - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/emby-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2019-07-21 20:34:49 UTC; 19min ago
 Main PID: 309 (code=exited, status=217/USER)


Jul 21 20:34:49 pi4 systemd[1]: Started Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device..
Jul 21 20:34:49 pi4 systemd[309]: emby-server.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
Jul 21 20:34:49 pi4 systemd[309]: emby-server.service: Failed at step USER spawning /opt/emby-server/bin/emby-server: No such process
Jul 21 20:34:49 pi4 systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Jul 21 20:34:49 pi4 systemd[1]: emby-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Would anyone have any pointers? It ran on buster with the pi4, but buster isn't as reliable (for me - I know the difference between debian and bleeding-edge arch, just let me have my arch, ok?) .

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

[Luke 42078]

Hi, I'm afraid we haven't tested what you're trying to do so we don't have answers at this time. Thanks.

[archlinux 0]

OK, there's this docker thing that might work.

Installed, ran:

docker run -d --volume /path/to/programdata:/config --volume /mnt/green64:/mnt/share1 --volume /mnt/fatboy:/mnt/share2 --volume /mnt/hawaii:/mnt/share3 --publish 8096:8096 --publish 8920:8920 --env UID=1000 --env GID=100 --env GIDLIST=100 emby/embyserver:latest

Gives:

[root@pi4 pi]# docker container ls 
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                    COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                                                NAMES
1226a9f9e5c9        emby/embyserver:latest   "/init"             7 seconds ago       Up 2 seconds        1900/udp, 0.0.0.0:8096->8096/tcp, 7359/udp, 0.0.0.0:8920->8920/tcp   dreamy_chebyshev

This container disappears (Why? I need to find logs..) quite quickly. I think 0.0.0.0 should instead be my ip. Anyone have any useful information on what I could try? Many thanks.

 

More info:

 [root@pi4 pi]# docker versionClient:
 Version:           18.09.8-ce
 API version:       1.39
 Go version:        go1.12.7
 Git commit:        0dd43dd87f
 Built:             Thu Jul 18 13:58:52 2019
 OS/Arch:           linux/arm
 Experimental:      false


Server:
 Engine:
  Version:          18.09.8-ce
  API version:      1.39 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.12.7
  Git commit:       0dd43dd87f
  Built:            Thu Jul 18 13:58:12 2019
  OS/Arch:          linux/arm
  Experimental:     false

[root@pi4 pi]# docker image ls
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
emby/embyserver     latest              8b6f0a928f65        2 months ago        261MB

 

 

 

 

 

[Luke 42078]

Have you referred to our docker install instructions?

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

[archlinux 0]

Hi Luke,

 

Yes, that's how I installed it, from the info at https://hub.docker.com/r/emby/embyserver/

[mastrmind11 722]

That's normal.  If you want the container to explicitly assume your server's IP address, then you need to run the container in host mode.

Edited July 23, 2019 by mastrmind11

[archlinux 0]

Hi,

 

I tried this on my arch laptop - all fine (with the commands I detailed before).

On the pi4:

standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused "exec format error"

 

I think the docker image needs to support arm

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52767983/docker-error-standard-init-linux-go185-exec-user-process-caused-exec-format-e

 

All the devs need to do is build it with multi-arch support.

Edited July 24, 2019 by archlinux

[Luke 42078]

We have separate containers for different architectures. It's in the instructions.

[archlinux 0]

Thank you Luke!

[archlinux 0]

Just an update. Mainly to help me as I tend to retrace my steps with this sort of thing. Some things to note:

pacman -S linux-raspberrypi4 
install / start / enable docker
docker pull emby/embyserver_arm32v7

docker run -d --restart=unless-stopped --volume /path/to/programdata:/config --volume /mnt/green64:/mnt/share1 --volume /mnt/fatboy:/mnt/share2 --volume /mnt/hawaii:/mnt/share3 --publish 8096:8096 --publish 8920:8920 --env UID=1000 --env GID=100 --env GIDLIST=100 emby/embyserver_arm32v7:latest

The /mnt/hawaii and /mnt/fatboy are the external hdds with media on. The /mnt/green64 is a flash drive useful for incomplete torrents. I also use this for the emby cache and metadata. I forgot to do this for the metadata with the docker install first time round, so I set it afterwards in the emby web gui.

This doesn't automatically move old metadata files, so the idea is to delete & refresh.

sudo docker ps

 (lists containers, here emby container is vibrant_swanson)

sudo docker exec -it vibrant_swanson rm -rf config/metadata/

(scan libraries in emby web gui)

 

To update, I stopped the container and removed it:

sudo docker stop determined_zhukovsky
docker remove determined_zhukovsky
docker pull emby/embyserver_arm32v7

Then the long docker run command above again.

 

HTH

 

(by the way, the pi4 now has hevc hardware decoding, does anyone know howto utilize it with the setup above?)

Edited August 22, 2019 by archlinux

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the info !

 

 

 

(by the way, the pi4 now has hevc hardware decoding, does anyone know howto utilize it with the setup above?)

 

Fyi, our native, non-docker package supports hardware encoding with the Pi.

[ichanmich 0]

Hi, is there any news on getting emby server to run natively on a Raspberry Pie 4 with archARM?

Could I compile it myself on the pie?

I have no experience with VS or C# projects though

[Luke 42078]

Hi, is there any news on getting emby server to run natively on a Raspberry Pie 4 with archARM?

Could I compile it myself on the pie?

I have no experience with VS or C# projects though

 

@@alucryd may have some thoughts on that.