Jellyfin on Raspberry Pi

🔍 Key Features

• FREE: Unlike Plex, there are no costs associated with Jellyfin, even if watching remotely.
• Open source: Licensed under GPLv2, developed by a volunteer community.
• Cross‑platform: Works across desktop, mobile, and smart devices.
• Customization: Flexible plugins and metadata providers let you tailor how your library looks and behaves.
• Scalability: Can be deployed on a Raspberry Pi for home use or scaled up on enterprise servers.
• Community‑driven: Updates, bug fixes, and new features are contributed by a global developer base.

🚀 Docker Installation Steps

1. Update your system
   sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
2. Install Docker
   

   curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
   sudo sh get-docker.sh 

3. Install Docker Compose
   sudo apt install docker-compose-plugin
4. Add your user to the Docker group
   sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
5. Enable Docker at boot
   sudo systemctl enable docker
6. Reboot
   sudo reboot
7. Test Docker
   docker run hello-world

📁 Setup Jellyfin

mkdir ~/docker
mkdir ~/docker/jellyfin 

🧾 Docker Compose File

In ~/docker/jellyfin create docker-compose.yml

  services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York   # Eastern Time
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./cache:/cache
      - /mnt/Media:/media #This is where you have your movies, TV shows, etc.
    restart: unless-stopped

NOTE: Follow this guide to setup your media folder: Jellyfin Media Structure

In a nutshell, if /mnt/Media is where you're storing everything, you should have something like /mnt/Media/Movies, /mnt/Media/TV_Shows, etc. Under each of those you'll have a directory for each movie, TV show, etc. For example: /mnt/Movies/John_Wick_(2014) and in there would be the movie file (.mkx, etc.).

▶️ Start Jellyfin

From within ~/docker/jellyfin run:

📜 View Logs

🌐 Access Web Interface

Open your browser and go to http://<your-pi>:8096