podman-compose VS Tautulli

Podman (via podman-compose),

Source code for the feature is here if you care to inspect it:

https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/blob/bce40c2db3...

Admittedly, I'm still on podman 4.3.1, but I dont' see any reason why this would stop working in later versions of podman.

Can someone link me to what Compose means in this context? Google takes me to https://github.com/containers/podman-compose but I just wanna make sure that's what they are talking about.

🛑 Docker Desktop is free for personal use but requires a paid subscription for enterprises. A free open source alternative is Podman and Podman Compose which uses the same core syntax as the Docker tools and can be used as a near drop-in replacement.

I’m dumb. When I wrote the article it was late. Docker-Compose really was a game changer.

Yea Podman compose exists. I’ll add a section about docker compose to it in an update.

https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

From googling this error I've come across a few different threads but I haven't gained any success. Firstly I found this github thread which doesn't reference my error but still seems related. I followed the "sudo podman-compose systemd --action create-unit" and "podman-compose systemd -a register -f myfile.yml" minus the -f flag as it wouldnt run with that. This indeed created a [email protected] file, but its created in the /etc/systemd/user directory rather than /etc/systemd/system which raises an issue as I'm having to run these two containers as root. I try registering the podman-compose@torrent but I'm told the service doesnt exist. Running it as user I'm told it failed to connect to bus: no medium found. So I basically reached a dead end there.

Have a look at Podman Compose

You can also use podman-compose for the orchestration https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

With Tautulli you have a better monitoring system than what Plex offers. Streaming history split by user, you can add notifications to a lot of services like Slack, email and so on. You can even create newsletters being sent out to users based on what was added to your server.

> How hard is this to configure?

Not at all. Just ensure that you have WoL enabled on the host machine and than proceed to send a magic packet. You could even do this with Home Assistant [1] if you are into that. I did this with a script that used tcpdump to monitor for incoming traffic [2] for Plex with an additional (dummy) Plex server on the Pi. I also remember faintly that I had to add 1 library and 1 video file to make this work though.

Powering down - or sleep - is a bit harder. I built a 'Sleep on LAN' app [3] for myself years ago that could power down (or sleep) a system on demand using a REST API. I used this and Tautulli [3] with Home Assistant that would check if there were any active streams and if there wasn't any activity for a specified amount of time I would send a SoL request to my service.

As you can see it isn't super hard or complicated, but a bit cumbersome to find all the moving bits and make it work. But when it does, it's IMHO fantastic.

1. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wake_on_lan/

2. https://gist.github.com/alex3305/8cc73ddd2c8ca6328f20235480a...

2. https://github.com/alex3305/sleep-on-lan

3. https://tautulli.com/

In that case then I don't think there will be an easy way to transfer the metadata unfortunately (outside of some user-created script). One option that would at least help with the manual re-entry would be to use Tautulli's export feature or WebTools-NG's ExportTools to create a spreadsheet that has all the information in one place, and should be easier to copy/paste.

Also, take a look at Tautulli, tautulli.com. Its dashboard has more info than Plex. It shows transcode speed (1.0 = real time) and if subtitles are burning/transcoding/etc.

Tautulli for monitoring and notifications, plus some scripts for "maintenance," such as killing 4K transcodes and stopping remote streams after they've been paused for X minutes. These are from the JBOPS repository.

Tautulli. There's a feature where you can trigger notifications from events on your server, not just when it's down. I'm not sure there's a function to get your server to auto restart though.

Looks like Tautulli's mobile companion app.

The data Tautulli exports is great if you want to throw it in Excel to analyze your library, or as a backup of all the content you have on your server, but isn't really meant to be imported at a later date (the exporter guide. You should instead follow the Move an Install to Another System guide to move your server data to a new machine.

I enjoy https://tautulli.com/ for looking at my server's stats