Please assist with clearer setup instructions

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I'm just trying to install OMV in a vm to see if I can tell what you're doing wrong.

[JonnyGators]

I'm just trying to install OMV in a vm to see if I can tell what you're doing wrong.

Thank you so much, this is above and beyond and very much appreciated.

Hopefully we can get some good documentation at the end of this to help more people going forward.  I'll be glad to write up a summary of this thread at the end of it, there's nothing I hate more than forum threads I find in google that explain exactly what I'm experiencing, and never have a resolution, or even worse, end with some generic oh it's working now.

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I installed OMV in a vm. Initially I had some problems working out how to install openmediavault_compose and docker. After that it super easy to install nextpvr.

I basically went to Service - Compose - Files, then hit the '+' button. I gave it the name 'nextpvr', then pasted in the compose text:

Code:

version: '3.5'
services:
  nextpvr:
    image: nextpvr/nextpvr_amd64:stable
    container_name: nextpvr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=100
      - TZ=Europe/london
      - HOST_IP=192.168.1.51
    ports:
      - 8866:8866
      - 16891:16891/udp
      - 8020-8030:8020-8030/udp
    volumes:
      - /tmp/:/config
      - /tmp/:/recordings
      - /tmp/:/buffer
    extra_hosts:
      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
    restart: 'unless-stopped'

I then clicked that 'up' button, and it popup a message about downloading file, then it showed as up.

After that, I could access it in the browser on port 8866.

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This was the 'up' button I clicked.

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I was getting all sorts of weird red errors popping up when I initially tried to install openmediavault_compose and docker (before I could even try installing NextPVR). Watching videos on youtube, I worked out I needed to create folders, and go in the compose settings and select the folders etc, and apply. I suspect if you've still got any issues, then your problem is probably in that stuff somewhere.

After I got openmediavault_compose and docker installed. It took maybe 30 seconds to add NextPVR, paste in the docker compose, and hit the up button, and be able to see the NextPVR web app running.

[JonnyGators]

I'm just trying to install OMV in a vm to see if I can tell what you're doing wrong.

When working on the plex install, I had to install omv-extras

https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=...omv_extras

I don't recall what I did exactly after that, but I know that was part of getting the docker-containers part to show up in the web console.  When we did docker stuff at the command line from a putty session, it ended with a situation that it would never restart on a reboot, which my understanding had to do with some bug or glitch, and is why we ended up pursuing this method of installing the omv-extras and adding things to docker-containers.


Sorry if that description is lacking in technical details.

[JonnyGators]

I was getting all sorts of weird red errors popping up when I initially tried to install openmediavault_compose and docker (before I could even try installing NextPVR). Watching videos on youtube, I worked out I needed to create folders, and go in the compose settings and select the file, and apply etc. I suspect if you've still got any issues, then your problem is probably in that stuff somewhere.

After I got openmediavault_compose and docker installed. It took maybe 30 seconds to add NextPVR, paste in the docker compose, and hit the up button, and be able to see the NextPVR web app running.

But I don't have an up button where I'm entering things.  

Did you install the omv-extras and get the dockerfiles section to paste that stuff we worked on?

[JonnyGators]

I was getting all sorts of weird red errors popping up when I initially tried to install openmediavault_compose and docker (before I could even try installing NextPVR). Watching videos on youtube, I worked out I needed to create folders, and go in the compose settings and select the folders etc, and apply. I suspect if you've still got any issues, then your problem is probably in that stuff somewhere.

After I got openmediavault_compose and docker installed. It took maybe 30 seconds to add NextPVR, paste in the docker compose, and hit the up button, and be able to see the NextPVR web app running.

going into compose settings and select the folders was a problem I also ran into setting up plex, but that has been done.

I'm still stuck.

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Are you in Services - Compose - Files? See my screenshot above.

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I'm guessing you're in Services - Compose - Dockerfiles, or somewhere else. Needs to be Services - Compose - Files