Hi all,
I’m using Plex/Emby for a long time, unhappy with the privacy issues and that every 20 minutes it’s span the HDD prevent them going into standby mode.
I recently came across an open source solution Jellyfin which unfortunately don’t offer a bin file for WD NAS at the moment, however it can run on a docker container.
for those who are interested, this is how I manage to make this work:
I’m about to follow you down this path. I’m a real docker newbie. A couple of questions:
Why didn’t you use the following option in the run command?
–user 1000:1000
Why did you change the option here from what was given in the Jellyfin documentation for installing and running jellyfin in docker:
–restart=unless-stopped \ You used restart always
Thanks in advance.
Can confirm that @dorz5 suggestion worked great for me as well. Only thing is that I had to add -e TZ="MST" to the run command to set the timezone to mountain so that the parental control schedules worked correctly.
I also tried @dorz5 suggestion on my WDEx2Ultra on OS5 and the installation seems to work (no error message and it is running in Docker) but I cannot access to the Jellyfin admin webpage (http://my_internal_ip:8096). Am I missing something ?
Thanks !
I’m having the same issues as you. I think this may have something to do with EX devices. You could maybe try to use the bionic tag like this: linuxserver/jellyfin:bionic
This is supposed to fix issues with other arm platforms, but it hasn’t helped me.
Interestingly, the plex image (from linuxserver) hasn’t worked either, the bionic one shows no logs at all (like jellyfin) and the normal version throws errors and does nothing.
I’m going to assume that everything you did prior to this was done correctly. Are you really trying to access Jellyfin at 0.0.0.0 or did you just put that in to obscure your IP address? Because you need to access it at the IP address of your WD MyCloud.
Without knowing all the steps you went through and the commands you executed, it’s hard to judge what might be wrong. I’d suggest if you haven’t checked the reddit/jellyfin forum, you might want to search there as well; I know there are some threads about getting jellyfin running on WD platforms. I have a PR4100, so I know my situation may be different from yours.
I was just looking into this, but don’t you loose hardware execration running this as a container? Seems like transcode would be impossible without that?
Contrast with your situation, I put my files in /Public/iTunes/Movies and /Public/iTunes/TV Shows. How do I install Jellyfin and map those folders for Jellyfin?
Hello ! I installed jellyfin like a charm following this first post.
But, I’d love to access from outside.
I found a tuto with caddy and reverse proxy (on the official doc also) : Caddy | Jellyfin
does it works or nop ? Have you done something succesfully to access from outside the network ?
In short, you can run Jellyfin on a WD My Cloud OS 3 device using Docker from the WD Community, and it works fine as a Plex alternative if you’re concerned about privacy or constant drive spin-ups. The hardware is limited, so don’t expect smooth transcoding or support for multiple heavy users, but for direct play and basic home streaming it does the job. Just turn off frequent library scans to help the drives go into standby, and keep in mind that OS 3 is a legacy system with no active security updates. For light use it’s a solid workaround, but for better performance long term, newer hardware would make more sense.
