Raspberry Pi 2 Home Media Server Installer + Image •

Raspberry Pi 2 and related devices have become quite popular NAS home media servers. I have previously released images that are already loaded with the standard services like Plex, NZBGet, SickRage, Sonarr, CouchPotato and Transmission.

I realize some people may want to pick and choose which services are installed so I forked Igor's debian micro server script and adapted it to include many media server goodies – dubbed the HTPC Guides Media Server Installer. I have provided a free image at the bottom of this post which has a Minibian base and the media server installer pre-installed for your convenience. The image will work on Raspberry B+ and Pi 2 units although there are some limitations for the B+.

The installer will be expanded to include x86 and x64 Ubuntu and Debian systems in the future, forks will not be necessary as development will be maintained by me as a school project.

Update March 5, 2016 – Kernel 4.1 Minibian Jessie available

Update September 16, 2015 – Kernel 4.1 Jessie with eth0 bugfix (thank you RandomStranger)

Update September 14, 2015 – Kernel 4.1 and Jessie with latest updates

Update August 15, 2015 – Kernel 4.1 and Jessie Minibian image available

Update July 22, 2015 – Kernel 4.0 image available below

Get your Banana Pi and Banana Pi Pro image here.

When you have finished installing and customizing your image, shrink it and back it up.

If you are trying to figure out which hardware would work best for you, consider reading the Pi benchmarks.

Pi Unit	Processor	RAM	RAM Bus	Network	WiFi	USB	SATA	Cost
Raspberry Pi 3	1.2 GHz ARMv8 Quad Core	1 GB DDR2	450 MHz	100 Mbit	Yes	4	No	$35
Raspberry Pi 2	900 MHz ARMv7 Quad Core	1 GB DDR2	450 MHz	100 Mbit	No	4	No	$35.00
Raspberry Pi	700 MHz ARMv6 Single Core	512 MB SDRAM	400 MHz	100 Mbit	No	4	No	$25
Banana Pi	1 GHz ARMv7 Dual Core	1 GB DDR3	432 MHz	Gigabit	No	2	Yes	$36.99
Banana Pi Pro	1 GHz ARMv7 Dual Core	1 GB DDR3	432 MHz	Gigabit	Yes	2	Yes	$45.00

The list of services that the HTPC Guides Installer includes is in the table below

It works well with UsenetServer and Astraweb for usenet, read more about usenet.

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Software	Purpose	Credentials Login/Password	Port
Plex Media Server	Streaming your media collection	none	32400
NZBGet	Usenet Downloader	nzbget:tegbzn6789	6789
Sabnzbd	Usenet Downloader	none	8080
Transmission	BitTorrent Client	transmission:transmission	9091
SickRage	Periodic Show Assistant	none	8081
CouchPotato	Feature Length Video Assistant	none	5050
Mylar	Comic finder	none	8090
Headphones	Audo file finder	none	8181
Sonarr	Periodic Show Assistant	none	8989
Jackett	Add custom torrents	none	9117
HTPC Manager	Managing Services	none	8085
vsftpd	FTP Server	pi/htpcguides	21
SAMBA	Sharing files over network	pi/htpcguides	none
NFS	Sharing files	pi/htpcguides	none
Webmin	Administer server	pi/htpcguides	10000
nginx	Reverse Proxy	none	80

Install HTPC Guides Media Server Installer

There are two options, clone the simple installer yourself from github onto your existing Raspbian SD card installation. It is designed to be used on a fresh system and supports Wheezy and Jessie at the moment. The other option is to download the Minibian image at the bottom of this post which has the installer preloaded for your convenience. The login credentials are root/htpcguides and pi/htpguides, for security reasons follow the initial setup guide to reset your SSH keys and password.

Make sure you run raspi-config to expand the SD card by choosing Expand file system and then rebooting

raspi-config

Reconfigure keyboard layout

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
sudo service keyboard-setup restart

Update your repositories and upgrade

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Note: If you downloaded the image you do not need to install git or re-clone, skip down to Running the HTPC Guides Media Server Install

To install the HTPC Guides Media Server Installer yourself, you need git

sudo apt-get install git -y

Git clone the latest HTPC Guides Media Server Installer

sudo git clone https://github.com/blindpet/MediaServerInstaller /root/HTPCGuides

Running the HTPC Guides Media Server Installer

Switch to root if you are not already running as root.

sudo -i

Enter the HTPC Guides installer folder

cd /root/HTPCGuides

Make sure the HTPC Guides installer is up to date

sudo git pull

Execute the installer

sudo bash install.sh

Some required components will be installed, then you will be shown the installer menu.

Choose the item you want installed by pushing the Space bar key.

Install one program at a time.

Then click Tab to get to the Install button and press Enter.

You must be careful to enter users that exist when you are prompted and proper port numbers (i.e. not text but numbers)

For each program you will be prompted for the user to run the program as, this must be a user that exists or the installer will exit. You should make sure the user has permissions for the directory you will be storing your media files.

Make sure you exit sudo mode when you are done, this is necessary to run Ubooquity for the first time

exit

Plex will run on any ARMv7 device but will not run on the Raspberry Pi B+.

I consider the installer in beta currently because I have had issues with Ubooquity autostarting, I am trying to resolve them.

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Use PuTTY or an SSH client to log in to the Pi to avoid getting wrong password errors if you use a non-US keyboard.

There is no desktop environment provided with this image (you can install one), it is a headless server image.

The SSH login user is root/pi password: htpcguides