grobins/ultimate-media-server

A docker collection of services needed to make the best automated media server in existence with the least amount of effort.

ultimate-media-server

A collection of services that stands up all your media automation needs with Docker containers.

What's in the box?!

• Sabnzbd (usenet download manager)
• Sickbeard (tv search & download manager)
• Sonarr (tv search & download manager)
• CouchPotato (movie search & download manager)
• Transmission (torrent download manager)
• PlexPy (Plex analytics)
• Plex Media Server (plexpass) (tv & movie organizer and sharing)

Getting Started

Prequisites

• You're on a *nix machine (preferably Ubuntu)
  • Install Docker following these steps
  • Make sure docker-compose is installed via:
    • apt-get install docker-compose
• For the purposes of this guide...
  • All of your media is located at ./media
  • Your temp directory is located at ./temp
• This guide assumes you have a hosts file mapping ultimate.media.server to 127.0.0.1.

To setup

• npm install

To start

• PIA_USER=username PIA_PASS=password npm run docker
  • Note that this will take a few minutes depending on your broadband speed on inital startup.
  • Every restart thereafter will be almost instant.
• Bonus: All containers will automatically restart after power outages

To stop

• npm run docker:stop

To restart (useful for quick auto-updating of apps)

• npm run docker:restart

Once the install finishes open your navigate to the following:

• http://ultimate.media.server:8080 // Sabnzbd
• http://ultimate.media.server:8081 // Sickbeard
• http://ultimate.media.server:8989 // Sonarr
• http://ultimate.media.server:5050 // CouchPotato
• http://ultimate.media.server:5051 // CouchPotato (for prereleases)
• http://ultimate.media.server:8091 // Transmission
• http://ultimate.media.server:8181 // PlexPy
• http://ultimate.media.server:32400/web // Plex Media Server

Want Transmission to run with authentication?

• Add the transmission username and password params and run the command below.
• PIA_USER=username PIA_PASS=password TRANSMISSION_USER=tUsername TRANSMISSION_PASS=tPassword npm run docker

The <insert service> web app won't come up or isn't running

• This guide is only supported on *nix OSes. Try running on Ubuntu.
• Try restarting the services with npm run docker:restart

Special thanks to the maintainers of the following docker containers:

• linuxserver/plex
• linuxserver/plexpy
• linuxserver/sonarr
• linuxserver/sabnzbd
• linuxserver/couchpotato
• timhaak/sickbeard
• haugene/transmission-openvpn
• nginx