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# Emby

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Emby is a personal media server, which has clients for many platforms. It is used to organize personal home media, as well as play back on other devices. There are a large amount of channels that are supported by the community, and can even be used with PVR and Tuner cards to provide TV streaming remotely.

## Installation

Install the emby-server package.

## Usage

Enable and start `emby-server.service`.

Access Emby through the browser by navigating to http://localhost:8096/

Emby runs under the user and user group `emby` using systemd's DynamicUser feature. By default, Emby will have at most read permissions to your media files thanks to systemd's filesystem abstraction. To give it write permissions and enable media deletion or local metadata saving, you will have to extend the systemd service:

    /etc/systemd/system/emby-server.service.d/write-permissions.conf

    [Service]
    SupplementaryGroups=share
    ReadWritePaths=/mnt/share

This will add the `emby` user to the `share` group, and enable write permission to the `/mnt/share` directory through systemd. Note that you still need to make sure the `share` group has write permissions to the actual directory.

Category:

- Media servers