Community Plugin 'Emby' servers: no acces to Admin Portal

[NumberSix]

Hi Everyone
Sadly I see that in these forums overall, no one cares much about Emby server. I guess this community aren't film lovers, but I digress!

So I have tried both the Emby servers listed in the 'Plugins' section of TrueNAS. Both Comminity offerings. There is a "Version N/A" and a "Version 4.7.14.0_5" at this time. Both appear to install just fine. However, the Admin Portals they offer do not connect. You click 'Manage' in the plugin section for Emby and the browser fails to connect - same with both plugins.

So it's maddening. Without connecting to the Admin Portal you can't populate Emby with any films, create a user account or do anything. It's just a brick.

I did have a working version of Emby that I manually installed. It took about 3 weeks to install as I find TrueNAS to be the most complex software I've ever touched. Emby finally worked for several years, but went broke yesterday. In the end I had to uninstall and re-install; except of course the re-install of a community version isn't working, as you see.
What am I doing wrong please?

Thank you!

 

[danb35]

no one cares much about Emby server. I guess this community aren't film lovers

I think it's rather that far more people use Plex than Emby, and the ones who are really concerned about F/OSS are using Jellyfin. Emby seems to me (as one who doesn't use it) as being kind of caught in the middle.

But be that as it may, plugins are a dead feature walking. Current users of plugins are advised to come up with a way to move away from them, and those who aren't currently using them shouldn't start. More information here:

iXsystems, when are you going to stop pretending that CORE has (usable) plugins?

Plugins are broken. We all know it, and you have no intention of fixing them. Most notably, @Kris Moore has said not to use them, and that they're "more or less deprecated": using plugins on CORE is a path to sadness. The plugin system is more or less deprecated and as you can tell, somewhat...

www.truenas.com

and here:

The Future of TrueNAS Plugins is Apps

TrueNAS Plugins makes it easy to customize your NAS storage. Create a secure and scalable data storage with TrueNAS.

www.truenas.com

 

[victort]

FreshPorts -- multimedia/emby-server: Media server to organize, play & stream audio/video to various devices

Emby Server is a home media server built on top of other popular open source technologies such as Service Stack, jQuery, jQuery mobile, and .NET Core. It features a REST-based API with built-in documention to facilitate client development. It also offers client libraries for its API to enable...

www.freshports.org

Or follow the instructions here with a manually created jail. Looks simple enough.

If you do, make sure to turn on the mlock setting in the jail properties. You will need to stop the jail, and edit.

 

[NumberSix]

FreshPorts -- multimedia/emby-server: Media server to organize, play & stream audio/video to various devices

Emby Server is a home media server built on top of other popular open source technologies such as Service Stack, jQuery, jQuery mobile, and .NET Core. It features a REST-based API with built-in documention to facilitate client development. It also offers client libraries for its API to enable...

www.freshports.org

Or follow the instructions here with a manually created jail. Looks simple enough.

If you do, make sure to turn on the mlock setting in the jail properties. You will need to stop the jail, and edit.

Hi Vicort
Just checking - where exactly will I find the 'mlock' settings and - if it's not complex to explain for a CLI Philistine like myself, what does it do?
Thank you!

 

[NumberSix]

But be that as it may, plugins are a dead feature walking. Current users of plugins are advised to come up with a way to move away from them, and those who aren't currently using them shouldn't start. More information here:

Wow Danb35 - I read the thread you pointed me at - epic - and bravo you for refusing to see the Emperor's New Clothes and calling it as you see it. Depressing stuff, but I'm impressed you stood up and went for it. We need more people like you.

 

[victort]

Hi Vicort
Just checking - where exactly will I find the 'mlock' settings and - if it's not complex to explain for a CLI Philistine like myself, what does it do?
Thank you!

mlock(2)

man.freebsd.org

You can also just run

iocage set “allow_mlock=1” jailname

 

[winnielinnie]

Also in the Jail's properties in the GUI.