Building a Mini PC Home Server: Proxmox, Docker, Jellyfin + Hardware Acceleration

Building a Mini PC Home Server running Docker and Jellyfin with hardware acceleration in LXC Containers on Proxmox.
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⭐⭐MINI PC HOME SERVER TUTORIALS⭐⭐
1️⃣ Installing Proxmox: www.wundertech.net/how-to-ins...
2️⃣ Installing Docker on Proxmox: www.wundertech.net/how-to-set...
3️⃣ Installing Jellyfin + Hardware Acceleration on Proxmox: www.wundertech.net/installing...
4️⃣Proxmox Backups to an NFS Share: www.wundertech.net/how-to-bac...
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0:00 Mini PC/Application Requirements
0:43 OS: Why I am Using Proxmox
1:40 Docker + Jellyfin in LXC Containers
2:00 Proxmox Host Changes
2:24 Configuring Docker in an LXC Container in Proxmox
5:15 Configuring Jellyfin + Hardware Acceleration in an LXC Container
13:09 Configuring Automatic Backups
15:16 Final Thoughts

[@ericbox1504]

Super clean and easy to follow guidance/tutorial/content. Thank you for sharing your nuggets of how-to.

[@leok4007]

THIS is exactly what i was looking for! Thank you so much👍

[@TechMeOut5]

That was one of best videos i have seen on this topic by far! you explained everything so well and everything was just so fun to watch! great work Frank!

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Thanks, Avi! Appreciate your watching!

[@Zedris]

great vid. please continue this proxmox series! i got the exact same mini pc to replace all my dockers etc from rpi and offload things like plex and jelly from my synology.

[@marcoslanes]

Amazing tutorial! I put it into practice for now. In my case, I bought a Lenovo Miniplex with: 1- M.2 256 and 1- TB SATA HD The Jellyfin on the M.2 and the medias/audios on the SATA HD. I hope it works well! Again, thanks for share this material! Save lifes!

[@tahabinadil416]

Bro you made my day, I was looking for this exactly and the way you explained each step is simply amazing.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Glad it helped!

[@alias906]

Great video! Easy clean explanation !

[@Bijlsmaa]

NICE, this is exactly what I am doing/want. A GMKtec M5 with Proxmox and 'stuff'

[@Glasairmell]

High quality very useful Proxmox subject matter. I always learn from you. Thanks you sir.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Thank you very much! I appreciate you watching!

[@Glasairmell]

@@WunderTechTutorialsPutting my vote in for a shortie on what containers-vms you use.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

@@Glasairmell It's on my list!

[@tonyseeley]

Yes please HA on Proxmox - great video by the way

[@selbyca]

Great tutorial!!! Please create the HA video.

[@kalel666]

Would like to see the home assistant setup please.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Definitely! Hopefully next week! Thanks for watching!

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video!

[@nadtz]

Only nitpick, proxmox is a hypervisor that runs on debian. I did something similar recently, pi hole, jellyfin and HA on an N100 so those services don't go down if I'm mucking about with my 'main' proxmox server. Solid video.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Fair point, definitely could have been clearer on that. Thank you for watching!

[@kevinhughes9801]

Brill stuff useful

[@Thebengtify]

Great guide! I'm new to proxmox and I'm wondering about how a privilige container is not ideal to use when you have plex open to the internet? Is it safe to set up like this when it's open to the internet? Thanks in advance!

[@erbartlett]

Just got the G3 to put HA on it…. And then I was like, hmmm, I wonder if I can put proxmox on it and run some other things like Jellyfin :) Perfect timing

[@sikiriki]

Great video. How can I pass through a USB3 hard drive with videos directly to the LXC? It's an NTFS formatted drive ? Thx And thank you for posting it all on your website. SUBSCRIBEDDDD.

[@InsaiyanTech]

Plz do a video on how to setup trash guides with notifiarr/recyclar or buildarr which works with jellyfin and jellyseer atm

[@dreadstar-22]

Please make a video on all your containers you run!

[@_AnTCeR_]

we want video of containers that you use ty!

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I'll add it to my list! Thanks for watching!

[@mortenaronsen]

Instead of using NFS within the LXC you can mount the share on the host machine and set that folder as a mount point in the LXC

[@grocerylist]

How would you do that?

[@fedefede843]

Nice video! What about sharing the gpu with a plex instance? Does it need to live in that container or have one of its own?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Thanks! I haven't tried to run them in the same LXC container though I imagine it's possible. This is the tutorial on how to configure Plex + HW Transcoding in an LXC Container: www.wundertech.net/how-to-install-plex-on-proxmox/

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

It'd been years since I used Ubuntu and I discovered in researching what distros supported ZFS that it was the only Linux distro that supported it natively. I work in data professionally and decided to use it at home. I was absolutely floored when I found how much it's improved since 18. I am still surprised that the desktop version doesn't enable UFW by default but that's a one CLI line fix. It's been *_fast_* , sits at 1.8gigs @idle and the ZFS with 32gigs of ram gives mind melting performance w/all the data integrity. I'll sing their praises from the street corner if they ask me 😅 wtf is up with Debian lately...

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I wish I knew! I've had major performance issues with Debian LXC containers (haven't used it in a VM/with dedicated hardware in a while), but those problems all went away with Ubuntu...which is funny because a lot of us probably initially moved to Debian from Ubuntu!

[@JanisLacis]

There is a bit harder way to run Jellyfin with hardware acceleration as a Docker container at the same LXC with other containers and without doing that chmod 777 on the host. You will have to deal with "idmap", but it should be safer.

[@stucorbishley]

I’m really curious as to why we need to enable NFS on the lxc container, it’s connecting to host outside of Proxmox, surely Proxmox doesn’t know or care that the container is establishing a connection to another host (regardless that it’s NFS or not).

[@InSaiyan-Shinobi]

I’ve been trying to do this setup lxc containers unprivileged and how to make sure that my Arr stack run through a vpn literally can’t find any videos sadly

[@chei86]

In your example: how would you use portainer to manage the jellyfin container? does it show up, even if it’s on another proxmox container?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Since Jellyfin isn't installed on Docker in that example, you wouldn't use Portainer to manage it.

[@grocerylist]

Do you know if it's possible to share the igpu amongst multiple LXC containers?

[@ultravioletiris6241]

Yes, check out Jim’s Garage from one month ago

[@x988]

Great video, but I'm having the same issue as others have mention. I can see the mount just fine in proxmox, but in jellyfin can only see the media folder and nothing inside it. getting an unauthorized user msg in jellyfin log. I just don't have enough knowledge to troubleshoot this.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

My only guess is that I am using different NFS settings than others. What are the NFS permission settings you're using?

[@x988]

@@WunderTechTutorials same ones you have in your written guide :/

[@WunderTechTutorials]

@@x988 I wish I knew then, I apologize. Those are the exact settings I use and have no problem accessing the data. I'd try and play around with some of those NFS settings and see if turning on different options does or doesn't work - at least it'll help you isolate what it can be.

[@RogerioPereiradaSilva77]

Shouldn't you set the Media directory as read-write for the Jellyfin LXC container? While Jellyfin indeed only needs read access in order to play media, it does quite a bit of writing onto those directories when scraping metadata from the internet since, by default, Jellyfin stores this metadata as .NFO files plus cover art directly into the videos directories themselves.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Good question - I thought the media data was written to a config directory on the OS but if it's where the media is, then yes, it does need to be read/write. I'll test it out once I can and update the written instructions if it needs to be read/write. Thanks for letting me know!

[@leok4007]

when I try to mount my Synology NAS folder, i get the error "mount: bad usage". Any ideas???

[@electricketchup]

FYI, you didn't need to make the Jellyfin LXC container privileged. You can do unprivileged, and then modify that container's LXC configuration to map the uid and gid of the /dev/dri devices. That's how I run my N100 with hardware acceleration.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

That's how it's done here too, I used the privileged container for the NFS share.

[@klorin]

You say in the beginning that you find the Ubuntu template working better then the Debian one, what was the difference for you? I just put together a N100 based system and still working on how to setup different things. My main issues is mainly manage storage and how to get access to it from VMs and LXC`s. So many ways to do, cant decide:)

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I can't explain why (and I admit that I haven't looked that much into it), but my Debian LXC containers take like 3-5 minutes each to boot up and shut down, and the overall OS just seems to run slower. Compare that to the Ubuntu LXC Container which takes about 3 seconds to boot and is very snappy and you can see the massive difference. I can't say I notice any functional difference when it comes to services running on the Container, but in terms of interacting with it, I've seen a huge difference switching to Ubuntu.

[@klorin]

@@WunderTechTutorials Very strange they are so different for you. I just tested on my N100 tonight (its a Asrock motherboard with 32GB ram and 512GB Samsung NvME drive) creating two LXC containers, both clean install, update system and install just docker and portainer on them. One based on Debian and the other on Ubuntu. Both takes around 4.5 sec from I click start untill I get to login in the shell. Both containers cpu usage is 0.04% - 0.08% with just docker and portainer running on fresh install on both, however the debian memory usage is 57mb while the Ubuntu one use 137mb. Btw: Jim here explains how to map hardware acc. into unprivileged containers: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zouno2ieapeChac

[@RaduRadonys]

Nice video, but what was the point of creating the Docker container (100), if you run Jellyfin on a separate Ubuntu container (101)? Is the Docker container be used in future videos?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

Yes, the Docker setup is for the containers I normally run. I plan on making a video in the future explaining what I use in Docker and why.

[@danieldorszu1317]

Test n100 mini pc with xpenelogy and docker jellyfin is very slow when searching video plex do it instant.

[@grocerylist]

Thanks for this video. I've been wanting to do this for a while to get Jellyfin or Plex setup on a system separate from my desktop. I am having an issue though... I got all the way through to the Jellyfin install but after getting my Movie folder mounted, for some reason Jellyfin just shows a spinning blue circle when I enter the path to my Movies. When I go to shell and do 'ls' I see all of my movie folders. I'm not sure why Jellyfin can't seem to see the folder contents. It is a large folder ~16TB but I assume it'd add the folder, then scan. Is there anything you could think of why Jellyfin can't see my mounted media folder?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

If the media is showing in the terminal, I'd expect it to work in JF, though I admit I never tried with 16TB. My movie directory is incredibly tiny compared to that. Rather than selecting the folder path, can you just type the path in JF?

[@grocerylist]

@@WunderTechTutorials I tried with a smaller library and had the same problem. I did some searching and some said that Jellyfin couldn't search more than 2 sublevels of directories, so I modified my mount to /mnt/Music but that also didn't work. I also did a chown -R on a directory but that didn't resolve. Not sure what's going on

[@grocerylist]

@@WunderTechTutorials Seems to have been a permissions issue. Jellyfin creates a 'jellyfin' user that I had to give rx permissions.

[@Tumperoinen951]

@@WunderTechTutorials I might have the same problem. I was able to add library to jellyfin, but it's not showing the movies I have there. When I looked JF logs it says: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/video' is denied. /video is the folder where I have my movies on my NAS but also the directory I mounted. LCX terminal shows the mounted media.

[@luksio]

I tried sharing NFS shares for Plex according to your video but it doesn't work for me. Is it done differently for Plex?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

It shouldn't be different. Are you getting any data returned or it's just blank? Any errors?

[@JackupTraining]

I've bought the similar mini PC, with N100 CPU. I'm planning to install CasaOS on it because I have no experience with proxmox. Looks like a simple option, compared to this. What do you think?

[@WunderTechTutorials]

If you want simplicity, I don't see any issue with running CasaOS. It's definitely an OS designed with simplicity in mind.

[@goodcitizen4587]

Problem with CasaOS is you still have to install Linux, and then CasaOS on top. And OS updates and networking are not handled by casaOS.

[@JackupTraining]

@@goodcitizen4587 didn't consider that. I'll look into it, how to set up the networking. Thanks!

[@MarkConstable]

I was all into this until you got to installing Docker... nope, not going there. Maybe you explained why you wouldn't install the apps directly inside the LXC container but I didn't stick around long enough to hear it.

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I prefer the portability of Docker so that's what I use.

[@ruwn561]

Just run your docker container rootless. Then it won’t make a difference about LXC being priveled or not.

[@electricketchup]

It still matters if it is privileged.

[@CompellingBytes]

Too bad raspberry pi’s cpu don’t have on chip encoding/transcoding… It’s almost as if intel is about to eat raspberry pi’s lunch…

[@marp04]

overkill and over complicated, just install any Linux distro and docker

[@WunderTechTutorials]

I explained why I picked Proxmox and also said you can use any Linux distro you want.

[@electricketchup]

It's not complicated, and it is worth it if you have the time to learn and try it.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Proxmox is not that complicated, and def not overkill

[@marp04]

@@BoraHorzaGobuchul you definitely need more ram to be able to virtualize something that you can easily run in docker

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

@@marp04 the difference is negligible, and you can run docker in proxmox if needed