openmediavault-emby plugin (formerly mediabrowser)

When you install/remove an Emby plugin do not use the button in the restart notification that pops up in the Emby UI. Use the restart button on the Settings panel of the plugin.

If you do click on the restart button in the UI you will get a stuck pid. The internal button to the UI does not know to call the restart function of the emby init script.

To fix a stuck pid in command line:
cd /var/run/emby
rm emby.pid

Then go into process list in the web gui in Diagnostics / System Information
Look for the User Emby in the list and it's PID number then go back into command line:
kill # (whatever the PID number is)
service emby start

I put a message into Luke on this. We see what he says. But if you make sure to use the plugin Settings panel Restart button you will not have this issue.

@tekkb

Do I have to set a database volume or can I leave that empty so that it reside son system disk?

Edit:

It seems I am stuck at this screen:

http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4033/7r8vjcsm_png.htm

You do not have to set one. You can leave it in the default location at /var/lib/emby

Did you try to connect with this format?

http://ipofyouromv:8096/emby

After the setup wizard is done you can use the normal button link in the plugin.

Yeah working now, thx.

I just did not find it in all the posts...

There are little things here and there. A name change is a bitch in the coding.

@tekkb

What is the user name emby uses now? I can't see a user "emby" in OMV gui users page, just the old mediabrowser.

It uses Emby. Did you purge the old version? You downloaded the zip file and installed with dpkg -i yes?

Oh, I get it. My friend it should have never shown in the Web GUI. I set it up as a system user and that is what it should be.
It will have a user id of in the 100s now.

if ! getent passwd emby >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            adduser  --quiet \
                     --system \
                     --ingroup nogroup \
                     --no-create-home \
                     --disabled-password \
                     emby

See the --system. It is a system user now as it should have been.

purged: yes

but installed the new version via OMV plugins page..

Should I purge again? and use dpkgi -i?

OK user emby shows up when using: cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd

It is just not listed in OMV GUI for wthaever reason

You need to uninstall it. The new one is not in the repos. It is the zip file here:

You installed the old plugin but the latest mono version of emby. You need to uninstall in the plugin section and then install this zip file with:
dpkg -i

Everyone should ask Aaron to put this new one in the repo.

Yea I used the deb files from this zip and uploaded the deb into OMV plugins.

But ok I will give i a try again

No then you are OK. The plugin you installed said Emby yes???

If it said openmediavault-emby you are good. There is only one Emby plugin.

So confusing...

Yea it is the new "emby" plugin, just installed via web GUI.

Ok, I will keep it then.

However user emby is till not visible via GUI and I want to change it to users group instead of nogroup

Just a minute, on phone....

I actually think that will allow you to do everything you want, like adding images to folders where you media is.

You can do this to see info. on the emby user:
id emby

cat /etc/passwd | grep emby

Zitat von tekkb

Just a minute, on phone....

I actually think that will allow you to do everything you want, like adding images to folders where you media is.

You can do this to see info. on the emby user:
id emby

cat /etc/passwd | grep emby

Alles anzeigen

No hurry.

Sadly that did not work:

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@tekkb

Ok, even if user "emby" is using "nogroup" it still can write to the folders and save metadata - so all seems to be ok.

Sorry, I was on the line with a wealthy client.

usermod -a -G users emby

e.g

root@kralizecvm:~# id emby
uid=135(emby) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup)
root@kralizecvm:~# usermod -a -G users emby
root@kralizecvm:~# id emby
uid=135(emby) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup),100(users)

***Latest test version for 64 bit users only*** (Many performance improvements)

Remove the prior versions first:
apt-get --purge remove openmediavault-emby

Then unzip and install with:
dpkg -i packagename

PS- This version should make it into the testing repo!!!!

I think you guys have one of the best plugins for Emby out there now. It will be a couple weeks before I work on this again.. Going to work on some other things during the holidays.

******Remember do not use the restart notification button in the UI of EMBY. Use the button on the plugin panel when installing/uninstalling Emby plugins/channels******** Luke is coding a fix for the restart in the Emby UI.

If you get a stuck pid file by using this look back through the posts for how to fix.