📺 Mediabox

What's in the stack?

Multimedia

• Plex
• Sonarr
• Radarr
• Bazarr
• Prowlarr
• SABnzbd
• Deluge (built-in dark mode)
• Calibre Web
• Portainer 2.0
• Watchtower
• Organizr

Security

• OpenVPN
• Traefik
• Let's Encrypt Automatic SSL certificates
• Duplicati

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Docker-Compose

Setup

1. Copy .env.template

cp .env.template .env

2. Replace variables on .env with whatever makes sense to you (follow the comments above each property).
3. It might be a good idea to clone this repo inside the external disk if you plan to use it on different machines/architectures.

Starting

# Main stack + Unprotected Torrenting
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.torrents.yml up -d

# Main stack + VPN Protected Torrenting
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.torrents-on-vpn.yml up -d

# Main stack + VPN Protected Torrenting + Plex HW Transcoding
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.torrents-on-vpn.yml -f docker-compose.plex-hw.yml up -d

# Main stack + VPN Protected Torrenting + Plex HW Transcoding + Custom domain & SSL certificates
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.torrents-on-vpn.yml -f docker-compose.plex-hw.yml -f docker-compose.traefik.yml up -d

# Main stack + VPN Protected Torrenting + Plex HW Transcoding + Custom domain & SSL certificates + Calibre Web
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.torrents-on-vpn.yml -f docker-compose.plex-hw.yml -f docker-compose.traefik.yml -f docker-compose.books.yml up -d

Stopping

Use docker-compose down adding -f flag with the same compose files you used for starting the stack.

Updating

Watchtower automatically updates all apps (if docker image update is available) at 4 AM every day.

Custom domain + Let's Encrypt free certificates

In case you own a domain like example.com and you'd like to configure subdomains pointing to your apps like sonarr.example.com or plex.example.com, do the following:

1. Modify .env:

DOMAIN=example.com
[email protected]

2. Forward ports 80 and 443 to your mediabox (you can do that changing your router settings).
3. Include docker-compose.traefik.yml when starting the stack
4. Check the logs to verify everything is up and running: docker logs -f traefik

VPN

With OpenVPN you can use any VPN provider following these steps:

1. Download your VPN OpenVPN config files (e.g: NordVPN TCP/UDP config files)
2. Download your VPN CA file (e.g: NordVPN CA & TLS key files)
3. Run the following (using NordVPN Brazil#65 as example)

# Copy required files
cp ~/Downloads/br65.nordvpn.com.udp.ovpn ${OPENVPN}/vpn.conf
cp ~/Downloads/br65_nordvpn_com_ca.crt ${OPENVPN}/vpn-ca.crt

# Write credentials
cat <<EOT >> ${OPENVPN}/vpn.auth
[email protected]
YourVPNP4ssw0rD
EOT

Claiming Plex Server

If you have a custom DNS server (like Pi-hole) you might want to add these to your /etc/hosts file:

See more @ https://forums.plex.tv/t/cannot-access-plex-tv-only-on-specific-pc/668567/25

99.81.153.144 my.plexapp.com 3 # added by VPN ByPASS
99.81.164.127 SAME AS ABOVE
108.128.10.254 SAME AS ABOVE
104.20.12.29 plexapp.com 1
104.20.13.29 plexapp.com 1
99.80.231.223 plex.tv
99.81.213.165 plex.tv
99.80.242.242 plex.tv
45.33.73.250 pubsub.plex.tv
172.104.211.98 pubsub.plex.tv

Sonarr/Radarr << Deluge/SABnzbd

This setup follows best practices mentioned on this article, therefore you'll have to map Sonarr/Radarr volumes to Deluge's/SABnzbd's to be able to use hardlinks and/or perform atomic "move" operations instead of "copy+delete" (which takes longer and requires more space).

Architecture

# My disks layout:
#
# data
# ├── 2tb
# │   └── media
# │       ├── movies
# │       └── tv
# ├── 4tb
# │   └── media
# │       ├── movies
# │       └── tv
# └── ssd
#     └── mediabox
#         ├── containers
#         ├── downloads
#         └── repo