tubearchivist/docs/Installation.md

Detailed Installation Instructions for Various Platforms

Table of Contents

• Podman
• Unraid
• Truenas Scale
• Synology

These are beginners guides installation instructions for additional platforms generously provided by users of these platforms. When in doubt, verify the details with the Readme. If you see any issues here while using these instructions, please contribute.

Podman

Podman handles container hostname resolving slightly differently than docker, so you need to make a few changes to the docker-compose.yml to get up and running.

Step 1: Follow the installation instructions from the README, with a few additional changes to the docker-compose.yml.

Edit these additional changes to the docker-compose.yml:

• under tubearchivist->image:
  • prefix the container name with docker.io/ (or the url of your repo of choice).
• under tubearchivist->environment:
• ES_URL: change archivist-es to the internal IP of the computer that will be running the containers.
• REDIS_HOST: change archivist-redis to the internal IP of the computer that will be running the containers (should be the same as above).
• under archivist-redis->image:
  • prefix the container name with docker.io/ again.
• under archivist-redis->expose:
• change the whole entry from expose: ["<PORT>"] into `ports: [":"].
• under archivist-es->image:
  • prefix the container name with docker.io/ again.
• under archivist-es->expose:
• change the whole entry from expose: ["<PORT>"] into `ports: [":"].

Step 2: Create service files (optional)

Since podman doesn't run as a service, it can't start containers after reboots, at least not without some help.

If you want to enable this behavior, you can follow this example to have systemd start up the containers with podman-compose when the computer boots up.

Unraid

Tube Archivist, and all if it's dependencies are located in the community applications store. The three containers you will need are as follows:

• TubeArchivist-RedisJSON: This container acts as a cache and temporary link between the application and the file system. Used to store and display messages and configuration variables.
• TubeArchivist-ES: ElasticSearch stores video metadata and makes everything searchable. Also keeps track of the download queue.
• TubeArchivist: Once your YouTube video collection grows, it becomes hard to search and find a specific video. That's where Tube Archivist comes in: By indexing your video collection with metadata from YouTube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived YouTube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface.

Step 1: Install TubeArchivist-RedisJSON

This is the easiest container to setup of the thee, just make sure that you do not have any port conflicts, and that your /data is mounted to the correct path. The other containers will map to the same root directory (/mnt/user/appdata/TubeArchivist).

If you need to install TubeArchivist-RedisJSONon a different port, you'll have to follow these steps later on when installing the TubeArchivist container

Step 2: Install TubeArchivist-ES

ElasticSeach is also pretty easy to setup. Again, make sure you have no port conflicts, make sure that you mapped the ElasticSearch Data to the same root directory as RedisJSON (/mnt/user/appdata/TubeArchivist), and make sure to change the default password to something more secure.

There is four additional settings in the "show more settings" area, but don't require any changes.

Step 3: Install TubeArchivist

It's finally time to set up TubeArchivist!

• HOST:This is a list of IP addresses that you will host TA from. Example, 192.168.0.14 is the IP address of my Unraid server. If I was going to access TA from a VPN, or domain name, I'd put those next to my host IP with just a space separating the different addresses. More information here.

• Port:Again, make sure that you have no port conflicts on 8000.

• Youtube Media Path: is where you'll download all of your videos to. Make sure that this is an empty directory to not cause confusion when starting the application. If you have existing videos that you'd like to import into Tube Archivist, please checkout the settings wiki.

• Appdata: This should be the same base path as the other two containers (/mnt/user/appdata/TubeArchivist).

• TA Username:This will be your username for TubeArchivist.

• TA Password:This will be your password for TubeArchivist.

• Redis This will be JUST the ip address of your redis container.

• ElasticSearch Password:This is the password you defined in the TubeArchivist-ES container.

• ElasticSearch: This seems to cause some confusion, but it's a pretty simple step, just replace the IP and Port to match you TubeArchivist-ES container.

(example: if your IP is 192.168.0.14, the value should be http://192.168.0.14:9200)

• Time Zone: This is an important step for your scheduler, to find your timezone, use a site like TimeZoneConverter

From there, you should be able to start up your containers and you're good to go!

If you're still having trouble, join us on discord and come to the #support channel.

Truenas Scale

Truenas Scale can be a bit confusing, with its k3s kubernetes implementation.

However, there is a step by step guide available for it's users here:

https://heavysetup.info/applications/tube-archivist/dataset/

• Ensure you are navigating the columns under Tube Archivist on the left hand side of the screen

Synology

There are several different methods to install TubeArchivist on Synology platforms. This will focus on the available docker package and docker-compose implementations.

Prepare Directories/Folders

Before we setup TubeArchivist, we need to setup the directories/folders. You are assumed to be logged into the Synology NAS.

1. Docker Base Folder

1. Open the File Station utility.
2. Click on the Create🔽 button and choose Create New Shared Folder.
3. Name the folder "Docker".
4. Add a Description.
5. Select the Volume Location.

   Note: By default, this will be where all data is stored. Change the folders as best meets your requirements.

6. Select the appropriate options from the remaining checkbox configurations.
7. Click the Next button.
8. If you are going to Encrypt your folder, check the appropriate box and provide the Encryption Key and its confirmation.
9. Click the Next button.
10. On the Advanced Settings page, you can select the Enable data checksum for advanced data integrity setting. This may cause a performance impact, but will allow for potential file self-healing. This cannot be changed later.

    Note: This is not recommended, as we will be hosting databases within this folder.

11. If you are enabling a quota for how large the folder can get, you can select the Enabled shared folder quota setting and choose the maximum size this folder can grow. This can be changed later.
12. Click the Next button.
13. Confirm the settings, then click the Apply button. This will create the folder.

2. TubeArchivist Base Folder

1. Open the File Station utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Click on the Create🔽 button and choose create Folder.
4. Name the folder "TubeArchivist".

3. Redis Data

1. Open the File Station utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the Create🔽 button and choose create Folder.
5. Name the folder "redis".

4. Elastic Search Data

1. Open the File Station utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the Create🔽 button and choose create Folder.
5. Name the folder "es".

5. TubeArchivist Cache

1. Open the File Station utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the Create🔽 button and choose create Folder.
5. Name the folder "cache".

6. TubeArchivist Output

1. Open the File Station utility.
2. Select the "Docker" folder on the left-hand side.
3. Select the "TubeArchivist" folder beneath "Docker".
4. Click on the Create🔽 button and choose create Folder.
5. Name the folder "media".

7. Confirm Folder Structure

Once all of the folders have been created, it should have a folder structure within Docker\TubeArchivist that includes "cache", "es", "media", and "redis" folders.

8. Change Permissions - CLI Required

If you do not have SSH access enabled for CLI, enable it before continuing.

1. Open the SSH connection to the Synology. Login as your primary Admin user, or the user that was enabled for SSH access.
2. Elevate your access to root. Steps are provided here.
3. Change directories to the Volume where the "Docker" folder resides.
   Example: cd /volume1
4. Change directories to the "Docker" folder.
   Example: cd Docker
5. Change directories to the "TubeArchivist" folder.
   Example: cd TubeArchivist
6. Change the owner of the "redis" folder. If correct, this does not have an output.
   Example: chown 999:100 redis
7. Change the owner of the "es" folder. If correct, this does not have an output.
   Example: chown 1000:1000 es
8. Confirm that the folders have the correct permissions.
   Example: ls -hl
9. Logout from root.
   Example: logout
10. Disconnect from the SSH connection.
    Example: exit

Docker Setup

1. Install the Docker Synology Package.
2. Log in to your Synology NAS.
3. Open the Package Center utility.
4. Search for Docker.
5. Click Install.

2. After Docker is installed, open the Docker utility.
3. Go to the Registry tab.
4. Search for the following images and download them. Follow the recommended versions for each of the images.

• redislabs/rejson
• bbilly1/tubearchivist-es
• bbilly1/tubearchivist

5. Go to the Image tab. From here, create an container based on each image with the associated configurations below.

• ElasticSearch

  1. Select the associated image.
  2. Click the Launch button in the top.
  3. Edit the Container Name to be "tubearchivist-es".
  4. Click on the Advanced Settings button.
  5. In the Advanced Settings tab, check the box for Enable auto-restart.
  6. In the Volume tab, click the Add Folder button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/es" folder, then type in /usr/share/elasticsearch/data for the mount path.
  7. In the Network tab, leave the default bridge Network (unless you have a specific Network design that you know how to implement).
  8. In the Port Settings tab, replace the "Auto" entry under Local Port with the port that will be used to connect to ElasticSearch (default is 9200).
  9. In the Port Settings tab, select the entryline for port 9300 and ➖ delete the line. It is not needed for this container.
  10. The Links tab does not require configuration for this container.
  11. In the Environment tab, add in the following ElasticSearch specific environment variables that may apply.
      • "discovery.type=single-node"
      • "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
      • "UID=1000"
      • "GID=0"
      • "xpack.security.enabled=true"
      • "ELASTIC_PASSWORD=verysecret"
      • "path.repo=/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/snapshot"

        Do not use the default password as it is very insecure. Activating snapshots for backups should only be done after setting the path.repo setting.

  12. Click on the Apply button.
  13. Back on the Create Container screen, click the Next button.
  14. Review the settings to confirm, then click the Apply button.

• Redis

  1. Select the associated image.
  2. Click the Launch button in the top.
  3. Edit the Container Name to be "tubearchivist-redis".
  4. Click on the Advanced Settings button.
  5. In the Advanced Settings tab, check the box for Enable auto-restart.
  6. In the Volume tab, click the Add Folder button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/redis" folder, then type in /data for the mount path.
  7. In the Network tab, leave the default bridge Network (unless you have a specific Network design that you know how to implement).
  8. In the Port Settings tab, replace the "Auto" entry under Local Port with the port that will be used to connect to Redis (default is 6379).
  9. In the Links tab, select the "tubearchivist-es" container from the Container Name dropdown and provide it the same alias, "tubearchivist-es".
  10. In the Environment tab, add in any Redis specific environment variables that may apply (none by default).
  11. Click on the Apply button.
  12. Back on the Create Container screen, click the Next button.
  13. Review the settings to confirm, then click the Apply button.

• TubeArchivist

  1. Select the associated image.
  2. Click the Launch button in the top.
  3. Edit the Container Name to be "tubearchivist".
  4. Click on the Advanced Settings button.
  5. In the Advanced Settings tab, check the box for Enable auto-restart.
  6. In the Volume tab, click the Add Folder button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/cache" folder, then type in /cache for the mount path.
  7. In the Volume tab, click the Add Folder button and select the "Docker/TubeArchivist/media" folder, then type in /youtube for the mount path.
  8. In the Network tab, leave the default bridge Network (unless you have a specific Network design that you know how to implement).
  9. In the Port Settings tab, replace the "Auto" entry under Local Port with the port that will be used to connect to TubeArchivist (default is 8000).
  10. In the Links tab, select the "tubearchivist-es" container from the Container Name dropdown and provide it the same alias, "tubearchivist-es".
  11. In the Links tab, select the "tubearchivist-redis" container from the Container Name dropdown and provide it the same alias, "tubearchivist-redis".
  12. In the Environment tab, add in the following TubeArchivist specific environment variables that may apply. Change the variables as-is appropriate to your use case. Follow the README section for details on what to set each variable.
      • "TA_HOST=synology.local"
      • "ES_URL=http://tubearchivist-es:9200"
      • "REDIS_HOST=tubearchivist-redis"
      • "HOST_UID=1000"
      • "HOST_GID=1000"
      • "TA_USERNAME=tubearchivist"
      • "TA_PASSWORD=verysecret"
      • "ELASTIC_PASSWORD=verysecret"
      • "TZ=America/New_York"

        Do not use the default password as it is very insecure. Ensure that ELASTIC_PASSWORD matches the password used on the tubearchivist-es container.

  13. Click on the Apply button.
  14. Back on the Create Container screen, click the Next button.
  15. Review the settings to confirm, then click the Apply button.

6. After the containers have been configured and started, you can go to the Container tab and monitor the containers.
7. To review the logs to ensure that the system has started successfully, select the "tubearchivist" container and click on the Details button. In the new window, go to the Log tab. Monitor the logs until either an error occurs or the message celery@tubearchivist ready. is in the logs. This may take a few minutes, especially for a first time setup.

   Note: Synology Docker presents the logs in a pagination format. If you are not seeing the logs update, check if there are additional pages.

8. After it has started, go to the location in the TA_HOST. This should give you the standard TubeArchivist login screen.

From there, you should be able to start up your containers and you're good to go!

If you're still having trouble, join us on discord and come to the #support channel.