Hello from Arkansas

[Bill Shryock]

Hello Jellyfin users,

Thanks for letting me join the forum.  I'm a Windows user but I managed to cobble together an Ubuntu NAS.  I have installed Jellyfin on the NAS and it is working great.  Wish I had done it years ago.  Anyway, I wanted to introduce myself and warn you that I may have a question or three.  I'm 81 years old and I bought my first computer, an Apple ][, in 1978 and never looked back.  I bought a IBM XT in 1987 and shortly after retired the Apple ][.  I write web pages as a hobby and dabble just a very little in programming for myself.  I'm an Extra Class Ham Radio Operator, Callsign N5HQ licensed in February of 1978.  I guess my things are Computers and Communication.

I guess that's probably more than anyone really wants to know about me.  I just thought I would say hello and thanks again for letting me join the group.

Bill

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Hello Bill, nice to have you be part of the community!

[thornbill]

Always nice to meet another Bill! Welcome to the community!

[Bill Shryock]

Well, I'm crying in my beer right now. I had a lot of video stored on my NAS. I installed JellyFin and things were going great. I hadn't done any updates to the Linux system for years and I was just dumb and happy. I was getting notices that I needed to update the OS so I decided to do it. Well during the process, I lost the OS. I looked around since I'm not too well versed on Linux, I wanted to see what was out there. I decided to install OpenMediaVault but I was never able to get my RAID back. I spent three days working on it and probably because I didn't know enough to recover it correctly, I have lost all of my video collection and all of my home movies and a whole lot more. Most of the Home Videos I will be able to recover from the original tapes if the player still works. Of course all the titles, intros and editing that I have done is all lost. I have my photos stored on Amazon Photos so those are recoverable but I cannot imagine the thousands of hours of work I've lost.

Anyway, I've ordered a new SSD to install the OS onto since the old SSD seems to be what caused the failure, it had developed some bad sectors. So, I'm trying to decide between OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS as the primary OS for the server. I was running Ubuntu Server before but I like the idea of the GUI interface that both OMV & TrueNAS offer. Does anyone have any experience with either and can give me a little encouragement on which way to go?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Bill

[Efficient_Good_5784]

I haven't used OpenMediaVault, so I can't recommend it to you. But I have used Truenas Scale.

What I can say about it is that its strength is in storing media by taking advantages of what the ZFS filesystem provides.
It does have Docker support so you can run applications on it, but as a whole, you trade some freedoms as you're restricted by the GUI to what it lets you do.
Another thing about it is that permissions usually is a thing that a lot of people get stuck on. If you don't know your way around Linux permissions/ACLs, you will probably run into issues related to these on Truenas.

I have my Jellyfin server running on a TN Scale server, and it works fine for me. However, we don't recommend running Jellyfin on it due to ZFS not being ideal for a program like Jellyfin to be ran on.
You get some performance penalties by doing so. You can negate/lower some of them by running Jellyfin's config and cache directories on a dataset stored on an SSD though.

[Emailluka]

I run Jellyfin in docker on an Openmediavault-system. It works fine for me, but its not quiet intuitive as you still need to set the correct privileges and some stuff is quirky.
But its not magic and there is a guide which shows basically everything after installing omv to run a docker instance with jellyfin.
(https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=...ker_in_omv)
I m no expert but i still got it up and running.

[Bill Shryock]

Thanks everyone for the welcome and the encouragement.

I am expecting a new SSD Monday so I think I’m going to install OpenMediaVault and once I get that running smoothly, I’ll setup JellyFin.  I will start transferring what little media I have.  I’ll start ripping my DVDs later and get things setup so I can start converting all my old family videos.  I will need to let my computers do their normal daily backups once the RAID is setup.  That will take some time, but a necessary step.

I have at this point a general question about JellyFin.  Before the crash, I had uploaded images of my users into the control panel.  I expected those images to show up on the login page where they select their account to watch video.  Those images never showed up.  Aren’t they supposed to show up with their name when they sign in to JellyFin?  If there is something else I need to do, can someone enlighten me?

Bill

[Efficient_Good_5784]

I have at this point a general question about JellyFin.  Before the crash, I had uploaded images of my users into the control panel.  I expected those images to show up on the login page where they select their account to watch video.  Those images never showed up.  Aren’t they supposed to show up with their name when they sign in to JellyFin?

It probably depends on the clients. But they should appear on the webUI and Android TV interface from my experience.

[dominique cook]

welcome aboard!

[bitmap]

Man I hope to be alive at 81, much less building my own NAS machines and media servers! Welcome, you'll find great folks and lots of help here. I run Ubuntu myself, though the more I learn, the less I know. ;-)