posterr v0.1.0

Media

Posterr — a digital-signage dashboard that displays now-playing, recently-added and on-demand posters from Plex, Jellyfin and the *arr apps on a screen or TV. Deployed as a single host-networked Nomad service.

nomad-pack run posterr --registry nomploy

…or one line (add registry + run)

curl -fsSL https://packs.nomploy.com/install.sh | sh -s -- posterr

Needs nomad-pack on PATH. The script only adds the nomploy registry and runs this pack.

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Variables 10

values.hcl

Save as values.hcl, edit, then run:

nomad-pack run posterr -f values.hcl --registry nomploy

# The name of the Nomad job.
job_name = "posterr"

# The Nomad namespace to deploy into.
namespace = "default"

# The datacenters to deploy to.
datacenters = ["*"]

# The Posterr container image. Pin a tag in production.
image = "petersem/posterr:latest"

# Host port for the Posterr web UI.
port = 3000

# Named volume mounted at /usr/src/app/config (settings).
data_volume = "posterr_data"

# Named volume mounted at /usr/src/app/public/custom — custom images/media to display.
custom_volume = "posterr_custom"

# Container timezone (TZ), e.g. Europe/Bratislava.
tz = "UTC"

# Placement constraints. On a nomploy cluster: attribute = "$${meta.nomploy_control_plane}", operator = "=", value = "true".
constraints = []

# The task resources.
resources = {
    cpu    = 300
    memory = 256
  }

Name	Type	Default	Description
job_name	string	"posterr"	The name of the Nomad job.
namespace	string	"default"	The Nomad namespace to deploy into.
datacenters	list	["*"]	The datacenters to deploy to.
image	string	"petersem/posterr:latest"	The Posterr container image. Pin a tag in production.
port	number	3000	Host port for the Posterr web UI.
data_volume	string	"posterr_data"	Named volume mounted at /usr/src/app/config (settings).
custom_volume	string	"posterr_custom"	Named volume mounted at /usr/src/app/public/custom — custom images/media to display.
tz	string	"UTC"	Container timezone (TZ), e.g. Europe/Bratislava.
constraints	list	[]	Placement constraints. On a nomploy cluster: attribute = "$${meta.nomploy_control_plane}", operator = "=", value = "true".
resources	object	{ cpu = 300 memory = 256 }	The task resources.

Back up this pack

This pack stores data in 2 Docker named volumes: posterr_dataposterr_custom

restic

# Run on the node hosting this pack. Point restic at your repo first:
#   export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:https://<account>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/<bucket>"
#   export RESTIC_PASSWORD="<repo-password>"
#   export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key>  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret>
restic backup \
  /var/lib/docker/volumes/posterr_data/_data \
  /var/lib/docker/volumes/posterr_custom/_data

rclone (sync to S3/R2)

rclone sync /var/lib/docker/volumes/posterr_data/_data backup:<bucket>/posterr_data
rclone sync /var/lib/docker/volumes/posterr_custom/_data backup:<bucket>/posterr_custom

Paths assume the default Docker volume location (/var/lib/docker/volumes). Restore by stopping the job, restoring files into the same volume, and re-running the pack.

Readme

posterr

Posterr — a digital-signage dashboard for your media server. Display now-playing, recently-added and on-demand posters from Plex, Jellyfin and the *arr apps on a spare screen or TV — a nice "coming soon" board for your home cinema.

Single host-networked Nomad service with config and custom-media volumes.

Deploy

nomad-pack registry add nomploy https://github.com/Nomploy/nomad-packs
nomad-pack run posterr --registry=nomploy

Configure

Variable	Default	Description
`port`	`3000`	Web UI port.
`image`	`petersem/posterr:latest`	Container image. Pin a tag in production.
`data_volume`	`posterr_data`	`/usr/src/app/config` — settings.
`custom_volume`	`posterr_custom`	`/usr/src/app/public/custom` — custom images/media.
`tz`	`UTC`	Container timezone (`TZ`).
`resources`	`{ cpu = 300, memory = 256 }`	Task resources.

Open the admin (default password raidisnotabackup — change it) and connect your Plex/Jellyfin/Sonarr/Radarr servers. A prestart init task makes the volumes writable. Point a browser or kiosk display at it. Pin the job to the node holding the volumes with constraints.