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Raspberry PI media server with Manjaro

Instructions to set up a media server running Manjaro ARM Minimal (Yes! manjaro). I wrote this "guide", mostly to remember myself in the future but feel free to follow along.

Last edit: 23/07/2023

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Why Manjaro?

After trying DietPi and completely breaking the system after and update going wrong, I've decided to try Manjaro ARM instead, which was super easy to set up. I know that neither Manjaro nor Arch are meant to be used on a server system, but it's been working fine on my Raspberry Pi4 for almost 3 years.

While Manjaro offers access to AUR packages I've decided to use docker instead for packages that aren't available on Manjaro repos.

Configuration

  1. Connect to network using ethernet

  2. Update mirrors & installed packages

    sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu

  3. Install network manager

    sudo pacman -S networkmanager

  4. Connect to wifi using 'nmtui'

  5. Setup up SFTP Change PasswordAuthentication yes on /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.

  6. Install docker sudo pacman -S docker

Docker containers

You should probably check the commands first in Docker Hub and use docker-compose instead. Make sure to change the paths.

  • Portainer

    • sudo docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=unless-stopped -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce

  • Radarr

    • sudo docker run -d --name=radarr -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -p 7878:7878 -v /home/pablo/config/radarr:/config --mount source=jellynfs,target=/data --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr
  • Sonarr
    • sudo docker run -d --name=sonarr -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -p 8989:8989 -v /home/pablo/config/sonarr:/config --mount source=jellynfs,target=/data --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:latest
  • Transmission
    • sudo docker run -d --name=transmission -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -e USER=pablo -e PASS=password -p 9091:9091 -p 51413:51413 -p 51413:51413/udp -v /home/pablo/config/transmission:/config -v /mnt/data/Downloads:/data/Downloads --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/transmission:latest
  • Jackett
    • sudo docker run -d --name=jackett -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -e AUTO_UPDATE=true -p 9117:9117 -v /home/pablo/config/jackett:/config -v /mnt/data/Downloads:/downloads --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/jackett:latest
  • Homer
    • sudo docker run -d --name=homer -e UID=1000 -e GID=1000 -p 80:8080 -v /home/pablo/config/homer:/www/assets --restart=unless-stopped b4bz/homer:latest
  • Calibre-web
    • sudo docker run -d --name=calibre-web -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -e DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/calibre-web:calibre -p 8083:8083 -v /home/pablo/config/calibre:/config -v /mnt/data/pi-calibre-library:/books --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre-web:latest
  • Immich
  • Monerod
    • sudo docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --name="monerod" -p 18080:18080 -p 18089:18089 -v bitmonero:/home/monero sethsimmons/simple-monerod:latest --rpc-restricted-bind-ip=0.0.0.0 --rpc-restricted-bind-port=18089 --no-igd --no-zmq --enable-dns-blocklist --prune-blockchain

Other packages

Some packages I installed from Manjaro's repositories.

  1. Cockpit - an admin panel for the server, useful to see systemd services logs among other things (port 9090).
    • sudo pacman -S cockpit
    • For some reason I started having issues accessing cockpit with Firefox but it's fine on Chromium based browsers.
  2. I've also set up some telegram bots, using systemd.

Updates

I manually run sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu from time to time, and use watchtower to update docker containers.

No longer using:

Plex is nice but I no longer use it in favour of Jellyfin, mostly because Plex doesn't work without internet connection. (which I run in another machine giving access to the server through nfs).

  • Plex
    • sudo docker run -d --name=plex --net=host -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e VERSION=latest -v /home/pablo/config/plex:/config -v "/mnt/data/Videos/TV Shows":/tv -v /mnt/data/Videos/Movies:/movies --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest

Previous configurations used without nfs:

  • Radarr

    • sudo docker run -d --name=radarr -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -p 7878:7878 -v /home/pablo/config/radarr:/config -v /mnt/data:/data --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr

  • Sonarr

    • sudo docker run -d --name=sonarr -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -p 8989:8989 -v /home/pablo/config/sonarr:/config -v /mnt/data:/data --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:latest

  • Transmission

    • sudo docker run -d --name=transmission -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e TZ=Europe/Madrid -e USER=pablo -e PASS=password -p 9091:9091 -p 51413:51413 -p 51413:51413/udp -v /home/pablo/config/transmission:/config -v /mnt/data/Downloads:/data/Downloads --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/transmission:latest

  • Syncthing - to sync folders and files across different devices on my LAN (port 8384). Install and enable in each device:

    • sudo pacman -S syncthing
    • sudo systemctl enable syncthing@pablo.service
    • sudo systemctl start syncthing@pablo.service

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