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tommytomato

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Post Wed Oct 29, 2025 10:23 am

Serviio Console

G'day all

First off been using Serviio for many years with sharing across my network watched many videos using Serviio from Play station 4 to Xbox 360 and a Pi unit as well

I've just got access to larger drives 5TB and Im rebuilding a PC tower up, going to clone my system to a NvME drive and run it in the new tower

I'm planning in buying serviio this time as well, but I cant seem to access serviio from my command line or via the desktop like I use too, thou many updates have been done since to Ubuntu

my file paths are
this is what I did some time ago and got my info the bash file
  Code:
sudo wget http://download.serviio.org/releases/serviio-2.1-linux.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf serviio-2.1-linux.tar.gz
sudo ln -s serviio-2.1 serviio
sudo chown -R root:root /opt
sudo /opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh
ifconfig
sudo rm serviio-2.1-linux.tar.gz
sudo vi /lib/systemd/system/serviio.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable serviio.service
sudo systemctl start serviio.service


files are sitting in

/opt/serviio/bin/
and
/opt/serviio-2.1/bin/

Serviio works but I want to be able to access the Console again from the desktop to check things out before transfering to the new tower, or is it better to reinsall it ?

my errors are
  Code:
Smegmedia:/opt/serviio/bin$ ./serviio.sh
log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/serviio/log/serviio.log (Permission denied)
   at java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
   at java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:298)
   at java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:237)
   at java.base/java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:158)
   at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294)
   at org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.setFile(RollingFileAppender.java:207)
   at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165)
   at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseAppender(DOMConfigurator.java:295)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByName(DOMConfigurator.java:176)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByReference(DOMConfigurator.java:191)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseChildrenOfLoggerElement(DOMConfigurator.java:523)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseRoot(DOMConfigurator.java:492)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parse(DOMConfigurator.java:1001)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:867)
   at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:773)
   at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:483)
   at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127)
   at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:66)
   at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:277)
   at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:288)
   at org.serviio.MediaServer.<clinit>(MediaServer.java:87)


any help would be great

OS is Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
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atc98092

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Post Wed Oct 29, 2025 10:21 pm

Re: Serviio Console

It's been years since I've played with Linux, so I tend to get lost sometimes in the details there.

As far as reaching the Serviio console, are you looking for a console app or just using a web browser? I'm not certain Linux builds have the console app, but even on Windows I just use the web interface. From any computer on your network just access http://[Serviio IP address]:23423/console. When you're on the Serviio computer itself, just use localhost instead of the IP address.
Dan

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tommytomato

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Post Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:08 pm

Re: Serviio Console

I can bring up the web browser link OK for serviio but I have forgotton my details to login, it says to edit user details to do via the Console
I cant look at this stage but I think thats what it said, I have the tower out now taking to work to image the drive and transfer to the NvME drive on the new tower
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atc98092

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Post Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:13 pm

Re: Serviio Console

The console has no login, only the MediaBrowser. The URL is slightly different for the console and MediaBrowser:

console: http://[Serviio IP address]:23423/console
MB: http://[Serviio IP address]:23424/mediabrowser

Notice the different port number (the number after the colon).
Dan

LG NANO85 4K TV, Samsung JU7100 4K TV, Sony BDP-S3500, Sharp 4K Roku TV, Insignia Roku TV, Roku Ultra, Premiere and Stick, Nvidia Shield, Yamaha RX-V583 AVR.
Primary server: AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, 32 gig ram, Windows 11 Pro, 22 TB hard drive space | Test server: Intel i5-6400, 16 gig ram, Windows 10 Pro

HOWTO: Enable debug logging HOWTO: Identify media file contents
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tommytomato

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Post Thu Oct 30, 2025 3:42 am

Re: Serviio Console

Well I got into the browser OK and the console came up OK, thanks for that I'm on version 2.1, is it worth upgrading ? and how is it done via the command line

I had some fun trying to clone or image the system over only to find out the NvME wasn't big enough and I couldn't shrink the Ubuntu system down, so I put the 6TB into the old tower, then I had to work out my mounting issues, as I said its been some time since I've done it, any ways the drive is now mounted and up and running in the shared drives
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atc98092

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Post Thu Oct 30, 2025 4:21 am

Re: Serviio Console

I just have to point you to the release notes for you to decide if you want the latest version. Version 2.1 is now over 5 years old, and I'm pretty sure there's some worthwhile improvements in it. https://serviio.org/news

I can't remember exactly how you update Serviio on Linux. If I remember correctly you simply unzip the main file and then copy everything over the existing install. But I can't be sure of that, so check the website for more details.
Dan

LG NANO85 4K TV, Samsung JU7100 4K TV, Sony BDP-S3500, Sharp 4K Roku TV, Insignia Roku TV, Roku Ultra, Premiere and Stick, Nvidia Shield, Yamaha RX-V583 AVR.
Primary server: AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, 32 gig ram, Windows 11 Pro, 22 TB hard drive space | Test server: Intel i5-6400, 16 gig ram, Windows 10 Pro

HOWTO: Enable debug logging HOWTO: Identify media file contents
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tommytomato

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Post Thu Oct 30, 2025 5:51 am

Re: Serviio Console

it seems to work OK, I don't really use for any ting else other than sharing across my home net work specially Red Dwarf shows LOL

I've been looking for the Serviio GUI for ubuntu as I stated before, I remember using it but had to install java to get it going, I can't seem to find any thing on it other than an image on what it used to looking like
but as you said 5 years that's how long since I've touch this Linux box lol, its all up to date now

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Post Thu Oct 30, 2025 3:16 pm

Re: Serviio Console

It's been a long, long time since I've used the console app. The web version does everything and I don't need to worry about if it's on a specific computer. :D
Dan

LG NANO85 4K TV, Samsung JU7100 4K TV, Sony BDP-S3500, Sharp 4K Roku TV, Insignia Roku TV, Roku Ultra, Premiere and Stick, Nvidia Shield, Yamaha RX-V583 AVR.
Primary server: AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, 32 gig ram, Windows 11 Pro, 22 TB hard drive space | Test server: Intel i5-6400, 16 gig ram, Windows 10 Pro

HOWTO: Enable debug logging HOWTO: Identify media file contents

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