Jellyfin

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In this step by step guide, i will show how to install Jellyfin using Portainer and Docker.

If you already have docker and portainer installed and you know your user id and group id, skip to Step 5

Follow this guide to install docker: How to install docker

Follow this guide to install portainer: How to install portainer

Follow this guide to connect to your NAS terminal to find your username ID and group ID: How to connect to NAS via terminal using putty

Find your current time zone on this website, as example for Brussels is:

TZ=Europe/Brussels

Open Portainer by typing in your web browser http://yournasip:19000

After you login on Portainer, go to Home, then click on your Local Environment

Go to Stacks and click on Add stack

On the name type jellyfin, select Web editor and paste the code below.

Make sure you replace the PUID and GUID with the values for your user found on Step 3.

Use bind option to mount local volumes inside the container. You can add as many sources as you want.

restart: you can choose from always, unless-stopped, or on-failure[:number of retries]

version: "3.9"
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin
    container_name: jellyfin 
    network_mode: 'host'
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=10
      - TZ=Europe/Brussels    
    volumes:
      - /volume1/DockerData/jellyfin/config:/config
      - /volume1/DockerData/jellyfin/cache:/cache
      - type: bind
        source: /volume1/Movies
        target: /Movies
        read_only: true
      - type: bind
        source: /volume1/Shows
        target: /Shows
        read_only: true
    devices:
     - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    restart: unless-stopped