Jellyseerr · Whatbox

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"Jellyseer is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It is a fork of Overseerr built to bring support for Jellyfin & Emby media servers"

Installation

Connect to your slot through SSH

Install pnpm and activate it

 curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -
 source ~/.bashrc

Download the latest release of Jellyseerr

git clone --branch develop https://github.com/Fallenbagel/jellyseerr.git

Enter Jellyseerr's directory
```
cd ~/jellyseerr/
```
Change the build settings. The CPU limit will allow Jellyseerr to build correctly on our servers, especially when your slot is already running other programs.
```
sed -i 's/256000,/256000, cpus: 12/' next.config.js
```
Install and build Jellyseerr. This will take a long time; Jellyseerr has many dependencies.
```
CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=0 pnpm install --frozen-lockfile; pnpm build
```

Start Jellyseerr

cd ~/jellyseerr && PORT=21269 screen -dmS jellyseerr pnpm start

Jellyseerr will take a few seconds to start. Access http://server.whatbox.ca:21269 and finish the setup procedure.

Updating

Connect to your slot through SSH
Shut down Jellyseerr
```
pkill -f jellyseerr
```
Enter Jellyseerr's directory
```
cd ~/jellyseerr/
```
Change the Git branch to the latest release and pull latest commits
```
git reset --hard ; git fetch ; git checkout develop; git pull
```
Change the build settings. The CPU limit will allow Jellyseerr to build correctly on our servers, especially when your slot is already running other programs.
```
sed -i 's/256000,/256000, cpus: 12/' next.config.js
```
Install and build Jellyseerr. This may take a long time; Jellyseerr has many dependencies.
```
CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=0 pnpm install --frozen-lockfile; pnpm build
```

Start Jellyseerr

cd ~/jellyseerr && PORT=21269 screen -dmS jellyseerr pnpm start

Automatically Restart

Make a file to be used for the script. touch ~/jellyseerr_restart.cron
Edit the file and enter the text below. nano -w ~/jellyseerr_restart.cron

#!/bin/bash
if pgrep -fx "node dist/index.js" > /dev/null
then
    echo "Jellyseerr is running."
else 
    echo "Jellyseerr is not running, starting jellyseerr"
    cd ~/jellyseerr && PORT=21269 screen -dmS jellyseerr pnpm start
fi
exit

Save the file with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.
Make the script executable. chmod +x ~/jellyseerr_restart.cron
Open your crontab. EDITOR=nano crontab -e
Enter the following text

@reboot /home/user/jellyseerr_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * /home/user/jellyseerr_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1

Save the crontab with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.

Notes

Use 127.0.0.1 as the address for connecting other apps if the app is running on the same server.

You may need to use IPv4 addresses for Sonarr. You can find your IPv4 address on your Slot Info page.

If Jellyseerr fails to build, stop rclone processes on your slot and try again.