Emby

Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.

Setting up

emby_enabled: true

By default, Emby can be accessed at http://[your_server_ip]:8097 or https://emby.[your_domain].com if you have DNS access configured.

Configuration

Emby can take advantage of hardware acceleration for transcoding:

# Device mappings for the docker container. E.g. To enable hardware transcoding:
emby_devices:
  - "/dev/dri:/dev/dri"

See the default configuration options for Emby at roles/emby/defaults/main.yml. Add any overrides to your inventories/[your_inventory]/group_vars/homelab.yml file.

Alternatives

Jellyfin
Plex

Recent Changes

Nov 4, 2025

Feat Allow mounting in custom paths for more media libraries