homebox: a custom Linux build for NAS and media at home

Features

• Plex Media Server
• Dropbox
• Transmission
• (todo) other apps and storage management

Ideas

• run dockerd with SSH auth
• use ZFS to manage disks, allow for testing in dev
• make logs and status easily accessible

Development

1. Create metadata.json:

{
  "plex": {
    "entries": {
      "timezone": {
        "perm": "0600",
        "content": "Europe/London"
      },
      "plex_claim": {
        "perm": "0600",
        "content": "<secret>"
      }
    }
  }
}

2. make image
3. ./run.sh

We have to use vmnet here to allow for access to Plex Media Server. However, that only makes it accessible on a local bridge, not on the whole network. So the easiet way to test is to connect via desktop version of the Plex Media Player, as opposed to a TV or mobile app.

LinuxKit generates new names for each of the VMs, so until we make a call on weather that needs "fixing", each VM appears like a new server in Plex console.