Gerbera - a minidlna alternative
For some time I was using minidlna to serve some images that I have in my Raspberry PI, so I can see in my TV. Problem is that not every image loaded and I could not debug the problem. It simply didn’t load some of the images. This made me search an alternative that was easy to set up as a docker container and easy to use.
Until I found Gerbera, a “UPnP media server which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.”.
First setup
To start, create a docker-compose.yml file with the following:
version: "3.3"
services:
gerbera:
image: gerbera/gerbera
container_name: gerbera
network_mode: host
environment:
PUID: 1000
PGID: 1000
TZ: America/Campo_Grande
volumes:
- gerbera-config:/var/run/gerbera
- /mnt/dietpi_userdata/documentos/images:/content:ro
volumes:
gerbera-config:
external: false
After that just start the container and everything works!
$ docker-compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f
[+] Running 1/1
⠿ Container gerbera Started 0.4s
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Gerbera UPnP Server 1.12.1 - http://gerbera.io/
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Copyright 2016-2022 Gerbera Contributors.
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Gerbera is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License version 2
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Loading configuration from: `/var/run/gerbera/config.xml`
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Checking configuration...
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Configuration check succeeded.
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Loading 0 configuration items from database
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Initialising UPnP with interface: <unset>, port: 49494
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: IPv4: Server bound to: 192.168.1.50:49494
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: IPv6: Server bound to: :0
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: IPv6 ULA/GLA: Server bound to: :0
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: Will send UPnP Alive advertisements every 60 seconds
gerbera | 2023-07-05 07:41:51 info: The Web UI can be reached by following this link: http://192.168.1.50:49494
You can access the dashboard at http://IP:49494 (update with your IP) to check the connections, files and more:
Easy configuration
You can check out the Gerbera configuration overview here, there are a lot of options to configure. But to start you can get a template config from gerbera itself by running the --create-config command:
docker-compose exec gerbera gerbera --create-config
It’ll output to std the configuration template. Or even better, you can configure directly from the dashboard:
