Greetings, so I final got wife permission to buy a pi zero 2 and a beeline 12s pro (n100) arriving tomorrow. I already have a nas drive for my media.
Question is what is the average setup and guides for this?
Of course I will be scouring this and other communities for info but the immediate items I want to fix are my plex/jellyfin server, setup RetroArch or equivalent gaming, then of course arr servers. But I would like to also get into reverse proxy and searxng, next cloud and pihole.
Any tips on how to make this beautiful?
OS recommendations? I currently run manjaro on my daily, but would think a kubuntu or kde fedora/debian spin might be better for these items.
Guides you can point me to? Suggestions for more or better options? There are plenty of answers in this community and I will look at what’s posted but any assistance is appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
I’m excited to start plying with the simple things
I have no particular suggestions for the Pi, but for the x86 box I’d go headless Arch, install docker and go from there.
Also, I’d personally suggest switching to something that’s not Manjaro. Arch has an install script now which I really like, but there’s also distros like EndeavorOS that don’t have a history of letting thier SSL certs expire multiple times like Manjaro does…
I’ve recently been reading more about manjaro issues. I’ll prob use this time to choose a new daily driver as well, endeavor looks interesting thanks.
It sounds like your goal is a headless server for running various services on? If that’s the case, I’d stick with a well supported, mainstem LTS distro. Rocky Linux (RHEL9) or Ubuntu Server is where I’d start.
Typical software stack for me is Cockpit (bare metal management), Nginx Proxy Manager, and Portainer CE.
If your system has a decent amount of memory, >32GB, ZFS in a raidz2 configuration for storage. Keep in mind that if you go the ZFS route that it’s memory hungry by design.
For backup software, I ended up going with Restic but there are plenty of good solutions out there. Just make sure that you have one.
Hopefully this gives you an idea where to start looking. Ultimately it comes down to a lot of research, realizing there are a lot of valid ways to go about this, and then choosing the one that makes the most sense to you.
I’m still reading guides but my initial thoughts on OS was Debian, but am reading one using proxmox. Anything I should be aware of with proxmox?
I will read up on cockpit, nginx and the rest. Thank you for the suggestions!
I don’t have that much memory on the beelink, specs are N-100 alder lake 16gb ddr4 500gb m.2
Ive ran “the perfect media server 2017” for ages… I’m doing a version of that now because it fits my use case… I’m not using snap raid.
The Perfect Media Server 2017 | LinuxServer.io https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2017-06-24-the-perfect-media-server-2017
I’d also look at trash guides for the arr setups.
My setup is a n100 device for Plex and arrs on Debian 12 with mergerfs. The drives are in a qnap jbod box via thunderbolt / USBC.
Great share! Will be reading this momentarily, thank you.
Question is what is the average setup and guides for this?
I don’t think there is an “average” setup because everyone’s hardware and needs are different.
What are you trying to “fix” with Plex/Jellyifn?
Will you still be using it your existing hardware? If so, what are the specs?
OS all depends on what you’re doing; I would think for the beeline you’d run something without a GUI and utilize Docker or some sort of virtualization.
By average I mean, lots of folks have niche needs, while mine currently are generic, so I’m wondering what’s not necessarily the best but most common.
My plex/Emby server is currently on a qnap ts563 and does not handle transcoding well. Looking to improve that with the n100 and move away from emby to try jellyfin. I keep plex because it works and I share servers with friends, but I’m curious about jellyfin.
My daily driver is not going to be part of the new setup. It’s and older frankenbuilt pc with manjaro. If anyone has interesting ideas for the nas besides holding my media please do.
I think a docker system would be best but any suggestions that encompass all this would be great. If I’m being vague it’s because I’ve always just copy pasted and read guides. I’m not as knowledgeable as I’d like to be yet.
If you share access with your media to anyone you’d consider even remotely non-technical, do not drop Jellyfin in their laps.
The clients aren’t nearly as good as plex, they’re not as universally supported as plex, and the whole thing just has the needs-another-year-or-two-of-polish vibes.
And before the pitchfork crowd shows up, I’m using Jellyfin exclusively, but I also don’t have people using it who can’t figure out why half the episodes in a tv season pick a different language, or why the subtitles are somtimes english, and sometimes german, or why some videos occasionally don’t have proper audio (l and r are swapped) and how to take care of all of those things.
I’d also agree your thought that docker is the right approach to go: you don’t need docker swarm, or kubernetes, or whatever other nonsense for your personal plex install, unless you want to learn those technologies.
Install a base debian via netinstall, install docker, install plex, done.
They’re using Plex for friends and JF for themselves, if you read the comment you replied to.
That sounds less like a JF problem and more like a your files are janky problem.
I use Arch derivatives for all my computers but my media server runs Ubuntu Server because it’s low maintenance. For storage I use a USB 2x HDD docking station (one of those where you just stick the HDD upright in it).
