binhex-emby

binhex-emby

Docker app from Binhex's Repository

Overview

Bringing all of your home videos, music, and photos together into one place has never been easier. Your personal Emby Server automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device.

Application

Emby

Description

Emby Server is a home media server built on top of other popular open source technologies such as Service Stack, jQuery, jQuery mobile, and Mono.

Build notes

Latest stable Emby release from Arch Linux repo.

Usage

docker run -d \
    -p 8096:8096 \
    --name=<container name> \
    -v <path for media files>:/media \
    -v <path for config files>:/config \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    -e HEALTHCHECK_COMMAND=<command> \
    -e HEALTHCHECK_ACTION=<action> \
    -e HEALTHCHECK_HOSTNAME=<hostname> \
    -e UMASK=<umask for created files> \
    -e PUID=<uid for user> \
    -e PGID=<gid for user> \
    binhex/arch-emby

Please replace all user variables in the above command defined by <> with the correct values.

Access application

<host ip>:8096

Example

docker run -d \
    -p 8096:8096 \
    --name=<container name> \
    -v /media/movies:/media \
    -v /apps/docker/emby/config:/config \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    -e UMASK=000 \
    -e PUID=0 \
    -e PGID=0 \
    binhex/arch-emby

Notes

User ID (PUID) and Group ID (PGID) can be found by issuing the following command for the user you want to run the container as:-

id <username>

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Details

Repository
ghcr.io/binhex/arch-emby
Last Updated2026-05-25

Runtime arguments

Web UI
http://[IP]:[PORT:8096]
Network
bridge
Shell
bash
Privileged
false
Extra Params
--restart=unless-stopped

Template configuration

Port: Web InterfacePorttcp

This is the Web UI port for the application.

Target
8096
Default
8096
Path: /configPathrw

This is the container path to your configuration files, e.g. databases, configuration files, logs etc.

Target
/config
Default
/mnt/user/appdata/emby
Path: /mediaPathrw

This is the container path to your media files, e.g. movies, tv, music, pictures etc.

Target
/media
Default
/mnt/user
Variable: ENABLE_HEALTHCHECKVariable

Enable or disable healthchecks.

Target
ENABLE_HEALTHCHECK
Default
yes|no
Variable: HEALTHCHECK_COMMANDVariable

The command or script to execute, if not specified then the script healthcheck.sh will be used (process, dns and https checking).

Target
HEALTHCHECK_COMMAND
Variable: HEALTHCHECK_ACTIONVariable

The action to execute if the healthcheck command returns a non zero exit code, if not specified the action will be 'exit 1', if you want the container to exit on failure then set the action to 'kill 1'.

Target
HEALTHCHECK_ACTION
Variable: HEALTHCHECK_HOSTNAMEVariable

The hostname used when performing HTTPS and DNS healthchecking.

Target
HEALTHCHECK_HOSTNAME
Default
google.com
Variable: PUIDVariable

User ID for the running container

Target
PUID
Default
99
Variable: PGIDVariable

Group ID for the running container

Target
PGID
Default
100
Variable: UMASKVariable

UMASK for the running container

Target
UMASK
Default
000