SOLVED: Libraries not Populating

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Libraries not Populating - zalterego36 - 2023-11-24

Hello!

I've recently moved and I'm setting up a whole-house server closet and I decided to step away from Kodi. I had previously used OMV and just had the shared folders accessible in Kodi and everything was great, but I wanted something more robust and I didn't like how Plex seems to be a walled garden...so here I am.

However, I can't for the life of me get my videos to show up in my libraries. I've followed two tutorials and keep stalling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BG1QPalYYA
https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv6:docker_in_omv

Near as I can figure I've done everything correctly, but nothing populates. Here's the container I've got set up, as suggested by the tutorials.

Code:
---

# https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jellyfin

version: "2.1"

services:

  jellyfin:

    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest

    container_name: jellyfin

    environment:

      - PUID=${PUID}

      - PGID=${PGID}

      - TZ=${TZ}

    volumes:

      - ./config/jellyfin:/config

      - ./srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-a4d2bddd-db8a-476c-8eee-f9de1b40ea29:/data/MediaFiles

    ports:

      - 8096:8096

    restart: unless-stopped

I have the global environment file set up correctly and I have my user set up with the correct permissions, I've even tested it through the terminal and I'm 99% sure it's all correct. Root owns the folder, it's part of the user group, and the permissions are READ/WRITE in OMV's GUI. It even shows two folders within the shared folder I have mounted in my volumes.

(but not ALL the folders...which might be part of the problem? I don't know)

I'm not a total novice, but I'm definitely not an expert, so I have the feeling that I've either screwed it up entirely and need to start again, or I've made the smallest, stupidest mistake.

I'll take any suggestions and I'm happy to provide whatever additional information you'd like.

This project looks amazing and I'd love to use it for my home, thank you for all the hard work!

RE: Libraries not Populating - TheDreadPirate - 2023-11-24

Why do you have a dot at the beginning of the volumes? Putting a dot at the beginning means to use the directory called "srv" in the current folder (wherever your compose is located).

If your media directory is at the ABSOLUTE path /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-a4d2bddd-db8a-476c-8eee-f9de1b40ea29 then you need to remove the dot at the beginning.

RE: Libraries not Populating - zalterego36 - 2023-11-24

@TheDreadPirate

Yup! That was 100% the problem. Honestly, I don't know why I was putting it there. I knew what it meant. I just thought that somehow it was needed because it was there for ./config.

Thank you!