JellyFin is Allonis's supported media management system.
It will support Movie database metadata lookup (coverart etc), Music, and Picture management.
There are JellyFin client applications that run on a Roku, Linux, Windows, MacOC etc.
JellyFin is installed in the myServer 6 Master Image. It is disabled from running by default. To enable it, go to the Linux dashboard and open a terminal window.
Type:
To startup JellyFin:
sudo systemctl start jellyfin ==== start now
To have JellyFin always start with Linux boots:
sudo systemctl start jellyfin ==== start on boot
to access Jellyfin
Basic:
Us the /home/allonis/applications/media/ folder for your local (to the Pi) media storage
You will see "images" folder there. This is used by Allonis's Digital Signage product.
Your family pictures, should go into the "pictures" folder, not in the images folder.
If you create a new folder, type in lower case the name.
Good practice for music folder management:
Artist name / Album name / Song name
By default, Allonis sets JellyFin up where the images associated to a song are maintained in the song folder.
Create a shared, mounted folder on the Pi
sudo mount 192.168.1.171:/mnt/user/media /mnt/towermedia -vvv
/etc/fstab folder on Linux
Example of connecting to a NAS (unraid example):
192.168.1.171:/mnt/user/media /mnt/towermedia nfs defaults 0 0
Video describing how to mount a USB drive in Linux
You can also add the "Disks" app which gives you an easier to use GUI to mount a drive:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility
Once Disks app is installed, run it from Pi desktop / Accessories / Disk
Example of Synology path:
synology
#192.168.1.171:/<synology username>/<synology share name> /mnt/media nfs defaults 0 0
Once that is setup, add your Library to JellyFin Setup
Folder path example:
/mnt/media/music
Device type should be "Jellyfin".