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Ombi is a self-hosted web application that automatically gives your shared Plex users the ability to request content. Ombi runs on its own port; 12507 has been automatically generated for you, but you may use another 5 digit port between 10000 and 32767.

Plex Login Auth 2FA Users: If you are using Plex as the login authentication and have 2FA enabled you will need to enter both your password and 2FA code as your password like “password2FACODE”

Ombi version 4

These instructions will install Ombi v4 and use the same database directory as Ombi v3. You should not run Ombi v3 after running Ombi v4.

Download Ombi v4

 wget -O OmbiV4.tar.gz $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/52522046/releases | grep linux-x64.tar.gz | grep browser_download_url | head -1 | cut -d \" -f 4)

Extract the archive

 rm -r ~/OmbiV4; mkdir ~/OmbiV4; tar xzvf OmbiV4.tar.gz -C ~/OmbiV4/

Create a directory to store the database.
```
 mkdir ~/.ombi
```

Start Ombi (may take a couple of minutes to start)

 cd ~/OmbiV4/; screen -dmS Ombi ./Ombi --host http://*:12507 --storage ~/.ombi/

You will be able to access Ombi at http://server.whatbox.ca:12507 when Ombi has started up.

Updating Ombi

Stop Ombi
```
 pkill -f Ombi
```

Download Ombi v4

 wget -O OmbiV4.tar.gz $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/52522046/releases | grep linux-x64.tar.gz | grep browser_download_url | head -1 | cut -d \" -f 4)

Extract the archive
```
 tar xzvf OmbiV4.tar.gz -C ~/OmbiV4/
```

Start Ombi (may take a couple of minutes to start)

 cd ~/OmbiV4/; screen -dmS Ombi ./Ombi --host http://*:12507 --storage ~/.ombi/

Automatically Restart (Ombi V4)

Below are steps to take to have your Ombi V4 instance automatically restart if it crashes, or if the server is rebooted.

Make a file to be used for the script. touch ~/ombi_restart.cron

Edit the file and enter the text below. nano -w ~/ombi_restart.cron

 #!/bin/bash
 if pgrep -x "Ombi" > /dev/null
 then
     echo "Ombi is running."
 else 
     echo "Ombi is not running, starting Ombi"
     cd ~/OmbiV4/; screen -dmS Ombi ./Ombi --host http://*:12507 --storage ~/.ombi/
 fi
 exit

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

Enter the following text

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

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