Plex-Meta-Manager/docs/home/guides/unraid.md

unRAID Walkthrough

This article will walk you through getting Plex-Meta-Manager [PMM] set up and running via Docker. It will cover:

1. Installing Plex Meta Manager unRAID app
2. Retrieving the image
3. Setting up the initial config file
4. Setting up a metadata file and creating a couple sample collections
5. Creating a docker container that will keep running in the background

The specific steps you will be taking:

1. Verify that Plex Meta Manager unRAID app is installed and install it if not
2. Use unRAID APPS to retrieve the PMM Docker image
3. Create a directory for your config files and learn how to tell app to use it
4. Gather two things that the script requires:
   1. TMDb API Key
   2. Plex URL and Token
5. Then, iteratively:
   1. use unRAID >_Console to run the commmands
   2. use a text editor to modify a couple of text files until you have a working config file and a single working metadata file.

If the idea of editing YAML files by hand is daunting, this may not be the tool for you. All the configuration of PMM is done via YAML text files, so if you are unable or unwilling to learn how those work, you should stop here.

Finally, this walkthrough is intended to give you a basic grounding in how to get the script running. It doesn't cover how to create your own collections, or how to add overlays, or any of the myriad other things PMM is capable of. It provides a simple "Getting Started" guide for those for whom the standard install instructions make no sense; presumably because you've never run a unRAID app (Docker container) before.

Prerequisites.

Anywhere you see

something like this

That’s a command you’re going to type or paste into your unRAID Plex Meta Manager >_Console terminal (Linux).

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• If you were not aware, the unRAID app store leverages Docker containers. As such, we are tweaking the existing Docker container walkthrough to make it work on unRAID. This walkthrough is going to be pretty pedantic. I’m assuming you’re reading it because you have no idea how to get this going on unRAID, so I’m proceeding from the assumption that you want to be walked through every little detail. You’re going to deliberately cause errors and then fix them as you go through it. This is to help you understand what exactly is going on behind the scenes so that when you see these sorts of problems in the wild you will have some background to understand what’s happening. If I only give you the happy path walkthrough, then when you make a typo later on you’ll have no idea where that typo might be or why it’s breaking things.

• You may want to take an hour to get familiar with Docker fundamentals with the official tutorial.

  • DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES BELOW if you want this to just work. Don't change the docker image. linuxserver.io will not work for this, so don't change the paths, etc.

Prepare a small test library [optional]

Installing Community Applications in unRAID

Thankfully, getting Plex Meta Manager working on unRAID is a fairly simple task. unRAID works mostly with docker containers, so the pre-built container available on docker hub works perfectly with a little configuration. To install a container from docker hub, you will need community applications - a very popular plugin for unRAID servers. If you don't already have this installed, you can install it here

Installing Plex Meta Manager in unRAID

1. Head to the Apps tab of unRAID (Community Applications), and search plex meta manager in the upper right search box. There will be a couple of results shown, but you should ignore them (Why?) and use the official image.

2. Click the Install button on the Template from Sohjiro's Repository Tools.

3. Choose which branch you want to run latest, develop, or nightly.

4. Click Show more settings... to set any Environmental Variables you wish to use. For the purposes of this walkthrough, the Container Path: /config path for the unRAID app is /mnt/user/appdata/plex-meta-manager

5. Hit Apply, and allow unRAID to download the docker container.

Important note on Docker images

This tutorial uses the official image, and you should, too. Don't change meisnate12/plex-meta-manager to the linuxserver.io image or any other. Other images may have idiosyncracies that will prevent this walkthrough from working. The official image will behave exactly as documented below. Others very possibly won't.

The great thing about Docker is that all the setup you'd have to do to run PMM is already done inside the docker image.

That means we can just jump right into running it. Open a Console by left-clicking on the running Plex-Meta-Manager container and selecting >_Console. This will open up an interactive session within the container to be able to run the commands we want.

python plex_meta_manager.py --run

This is going to fail with an error. That's expected.

You should see something like this:

Config Error: config not found at //config

This is going to fail with an error, which you will then fix.

Create a directory to quiet an error later

The default config file contains a reference to a directory that will show an error in the output later. That error can safely be ignored, but it causes some confusion with new users from time to time.

We'll create it here so the error doesn't show up later.

[type this into your terminal]
```
mkdir config/assets
```

[type this into your terminal]
```
mkdir config/assets
```

[type this into your terminal]
```
mkdir config\assets
```

Setting up the initial config file

Editing the config template

First, make a copy of the template:

Get a copy of the template to edit [type this into your terminal]:
```
curl -fLvo config/config.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/master/config/config.yml.template
```

Get a copy of the template to edit [type this into your terminal]:
```
curl -fLvo config/config.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/master/config/config.yml.template
```

Go to [this URL](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/master/config/config.yml.template) using a web browser; choose the "Save" command, then save the file at:
```
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\plex-meta-manager\config\config.yml
```

Now open the copy in an editor on the machine of your choice(All 3 are fine. Just decide on one):

Testing the config file

Save the file:

Then run the script again:

Creating a few sample collections.

So let's run the script and see this happen:

Setting up a metadata file and creating a sample collection.

Save the file:

Then run the script again:

Adding Overlays to movies.

Save the file:

Then run the script again:

Other Topics

Scheduling

I want to use the develop branch

Add the develop tag to the image name in your Repository: setting for the Plex Meta Manager unRAID app: [meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:develop]

meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:develop
                             ^^^^^^^

This may not work if you are not using the official image; for example, it does not work with the lsio image.

I want to use the nightly branch

Add the nightly tag to the image name in your Repository: setting for the Plex Meta Manager unRAID app: [meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:nightly]

meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:nightly
                             ^^^^^^^

This may not work if you are not using the official image; for example, it does not work with the lsio image.

I want to ensure I am using the master branch

Add the latest tag to the image name in your Repository: setting for the Plex Meta Manager unRAID app: [meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:latest]

meisnate12/plex-meta-manager:latest
                             ^^^^^^

This is the only version tag supplied by the lsio image.