Containers
Kometa

Kometa

Kometa

Kometa is a collection manager for Plex.

Configuration

Image

To use kometa, it needs to be included in your generated image. Update your build configuration to include it.

.config/my-server-build
{
  "containers": [
    "kometa"
  ]
}

Service

A systemd container unit for kometa has been included in automatos-server. This container unit file serves as a baseline and requires additional customizations from the user to run kometa successfully.

etc/containers/systemd/kometa.container
[Unit]
Description=Container service for Kometa
Requires=network-online.target nss-lookup.target zfs.target
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target zfs.target

[Container]
ContainerName=%p
Image=docker.io/kometateam/kometa:nightly
Volume=${CONTAINER_PATH}/config:/config:Z
Network=plex-network
AutoUpdate=registry

[Service]
ExecCondition=/usr/bin/test -d "${CONTAINER_PATH}/config"
Restart=on-failure

Customizations

Environment Variables

The following environment variables are used to configure the kometa container. These values provided are notional. Customize these values to suit your needs.

/etc/containers/systemd/kometa.container.d/01-variables.conf
[Container]
Environment=KOMETA_RUN=true
Environment=TZ=Etc/Utc

[Service]
Environment=CONTAINER_PATH=/path/to/kometa/volumes

Timer

The following timer is utilized to periodically invoke kometa to update Plex collections.

/etc/systemd/system/kometa.timer
[Unit]
Description=Periodically run Kometa to manage collection in Plex

[Timer]
OnBootSec=15min
OnUnitInactiveSec=2h

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Note

With these customizations, the kometa container will be started 15 minutes after boot and will restart every 2 hours after it has been inactive for that period of time.

References

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