raspbian-media-center

Media server for the rasbian OS. Tested on a Rasberry Pi 3+.

The project is mainly for learning purposes.

Features

Install and Configure Raspian Buster

Based the install guide located here

Create Rasbian Buster SD card

Download Raspian Buster here

Allow SSH into Raspberry Pi

Make an empty file called SSH in the root folder of SD card.

cd SD_ROOT
touch SSH

Setup Wifi Connection Without Screen

Seems to take a long time to connect on first boot

Put the configuration below in wpa_supplicant.conf file in the root folder of SD card.

cd SD_ROOT
vi wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=US

network={
	ssid="YOUR_NETWORK_SSID"
	psk="YOUR_WPA/WPA2_KEY"
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

SSH into server.

Username: pi
Password: raspberry

ssh pi@IP

Update and Upgrade OS Packages

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y

Run the rasbian configuration program

sudo raspi-config

Expand Filesystem
Memory Split, allocate 256 RAM to GPU
Finally, you need to enable certain video codecs that don’t run as standard. These include VP6, VP8, MJPEG, and Theora, among others. To do this, you need to enable the camera. While no camera needs to be connected, enabling this feature will ensure the codecs can be used.
Advanced Options > GL Driver and set Original non-GL desktop driver

Extend Default Pagefile Limit (optional)

sudo vi /etc/dphys-swapfile

Comment out the static swap size

sudo dphys-swapfile setup

Use Googles DNS Servers (optional)

sudo vim /etc/dhcpcd.conf

add the following to the end of the file

static domain_name_servers=8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

sudo service dhcpcd restart
cat /etc/resolv.conf

Install and Configure Docker

Install Docker Using Convenience Script

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh

Allow pi user to run Docker

sudo usermod -aG docker pi

Disable Docker service autostart on boot

See issue here (same for linux)

sudo systemctl disable docker

Set docker to launch 60 seconds after boot

This is to allow OS to automount required drives before Docker starts.

crontab -e

@reboot sleep 60 && systemctl start docker

Install Docker Compose

sudo apt install docker-compose

Install Kodi

sudo apt update
sudo apt install kodi

Auto-start Kodi on Boot With Desktop

echo "@kodi" >> ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=251645&sid=53d4d04842fd8e61f2c8cea77268b25e

Auto-start Kodi on Boot Without Desktop

Code Credit

Disable desktop.

sudo raspi-config

choose the option to boot to CLI autologin.

sudo tee -a /lib/systemd/system/kodi.service <<_EOF_
[Unit]
Description = Kodi Media Center
After = remote-fs.target network-online.target
Wants = network-online.target

[Service]
User = pi
Group = pi
Type = simple
ExecStart = /usr/bin/kodi-standalone
Restart = on-abort
RestartSec = 5

[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target
_EOF_

sudo systemctl enable kodi.service

Create Deluge Docker Container (ARM)

The admin interface is available at IP:8112 with a default user/password of admin/deluge.

--net=host - Shares host networking with container, required.
-v /config - deluge configs
-v /downloads - torrent download directory
-e PGID for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e PUID for UserID - see below for explanation
-e UMASK_SET for umask setting of deluge, optional , default if left unset is 022.
-e TZ for timezone information, eg Europe/London

Sonarr Docker Container (ARM)

The admin interface is available at IP:8989

-p 8989 - the port sonarr webinterface
-v /config - database and sonarr configs
-v /tv - location of TV library on disk
-v /etc/localtime for timesync - see Localtime for important information
-e TZ for timezone information, Europe/London - see Localtime for important - information
-e PGID for for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e PUID for for UserID - see below for explanation

Radarr Docker Container (ARM)

The admin interface is available at IP:7878

-p 7878 - the port(s)
-v /config - Radarr Application Data
-v /downloads - Downloads Folder
-v /movies - Movie Share
-v /etc/localtime for timesync - see Localtime for important information
-e TZ for timezone information, Europe/London - see Localtime for important information
-e PGID for for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e PUID for for UserID - see below for explanation

Create Jackett Docker Container (ARM)

The admin interface is available at IP:9117

-p 9117 - the port(s)
-v /config - where Jackett should store its config file.
-v /downloads - Path to torrent blackhole
-v /etc/localtime for timesync - see Localtime for important information
-e TZ for timezone information, Europe/London - see Localtime for important - information
-e RUN_OPTS - Optionally specify additional arguments to be passed. EG. - --ProxyConnection=10.0.0.100:1234
-e PGID for GroupID - see below for explanation
-e PUID for UserID - see below for explanation

Commands

Create and Start Docker Containers

docker-compose up

Start Containers

sudo docker-compose start

Stop Containers

sudo docker-compose stop

Failures (these attempts didn't seem to work for unknown reasons)

Modify Docker Service to use RequiresMountsFor

Always started Docker before the mount was up.

sudo systemctl edit docker.service

[Unit]
RequiresMountsFor=MOUNT_PATH

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Add cron to wait for Mount