Mike 2026-08-20, revising the 2026-07-31 iGPU-only call with the 2026-08-04 finding that this UHD 630 has no HEVC encode entrypoint. runtime: nvidia + NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES/CAPABILITIES on the plex service; /dev/dri stays. Also brings the compose current with the live opt-in watchtower config, and 50-plex.sh now sources WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_URL (carries the publish token) from stacks.env, soft-gates on nvidia-smi, and adds the NVENC line to the walk-away checks.
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services:
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plex:
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# AUTO-UPDATE — Mike's call 2026-08-02, superseding the short-lived pin.
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# :latest + the watchtower service below (daily 05:00 check). Remember:
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# SQLite schema upgrades are ONE-WAY. The rollback net is Plex's own
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# scheduled database backups (Settings > Scheduled Tasks, default every
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# 3 days) and the NAS media_pc backup. Watchtower ntfys every update.
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image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
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container_name: plex
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restart: unless-stopped
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# Watchtower runs in OPT-IN mode (WATCHTOWER_LABEL_ENABLE below), so this
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# label is what keeps Plex auto-updating. Remove it and Plex silently
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# stops getting updates.
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labels:
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com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable: "true"
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# NOT OPTIONAL. Plex's local discovery (GDM) and client auto-detection rely
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# on broadcast traffic that a bridge network silently eats. (DLNA is off on
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# this server, so discovery — not DLNA — is the reason.) This is also why
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# Plex does not sit behind NPM like everything else here: proxy host 17
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# already points plex.thewichersfamily.com at 10.0.1.20:32400 and needs no
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# change, because the IP does not move.
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network_mode: host
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environment:
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- PUID=3000 # MUST equal uid= on the CIFS mounts
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- PGID=3000 # MUST equal gid= on the CIFS mounts
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- TZ=${TZ:-America/New_York}
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# NVIDIA runtime injection — which GPUs and which driver capabilities
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# reach the container. `video` is the capability that carries NVENC.
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- NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all
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- NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,video,utility
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# VERSION=docker stays even with auto-update: the container must never
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# self-update INSIDE (those updates evaporate on recreate). Watchtower
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# updates by replacing the image, which is the durable path.
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- VERSION=docker
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# No PLEX_CLAIM. The migration carries MachineIdentifier,
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# ProcessedMachineIdentifier and the online token across in
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# Preferences.xml, so this server IS the existing server — already
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# claimed, shared users intact, clients not needing to re-add it.
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# Claiming would create a NEW server identity and throw that away.
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# BOTH hardware paths on purpose — REVISED 2026-08-20 (Mike), updating the
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# 2026-07-31 iGPU-only call with what the 2026-08-04 measurement found:
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# this UHD 630 has NO HEVC encode entrypoint (H.264 EncSliceLP only — see
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# homelab/hosts/mediabox-transcoding.md), so every HEVC-out transcode was
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# quietly falling back to software. Quick Sync STAYS for its strengths
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# (no session cap, kernel i915 driver, HDR tone mapping); the 1070's NVENC
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# is wired in beside it as the only hardware HEVC-out on the box. Plex
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# picks per session, and an HEVC target can only be satisfied on NVIDIA.
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runtime: nvidia
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devices:
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# Quick Sync on the UHD 630. Requires the BIOS iGPU Multi-Monitor
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# toggle or /dev/dri does not exist.
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- /dev/dri:/dev/dri
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group_add:
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# Render node is root:render and PGID 3000 is not in that group.
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# Resolved from the live host by 50-plex.sh — the gid differs across
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# distro releases, so do not hardcode it. Verified 993 on this host
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# 2026-08-04, which is also the fallback below.
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- "${RENDER_GID:-993}"
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volumes:
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# ---- Plex data directory (SSD): database + Metadata, NOT Media/ -------
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# The SQLite database is the most latency-sensitive thing on the box and
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# belongs on flash. Metadata/ (25 GB of posters) rides along. The 337 GB
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# Media/ preview cache does NOT — see the bind below.
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- type: bind
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source: /srv/plex/config
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target: /config
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# ---- Preview/thumbnail cache on the 3 TB ext4 disk — NOT the SSD ------
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# Mike's call 2026-07-31: 337 GB is too large for the 500 GB SSD, so
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# Media/ lives on /srv/data (the former D:, now ext4) from day one.
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# Long-form syntax deliberately: the target path contains spaces, which
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# the short "a:b" form handles badly. Docker orders mounts by target
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# depth, so this correctly lands inside the /config mount above.
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#
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# Plex does NOT support relocating this directory natively — this bind
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# mount is the mechanism. After first start, force thumbnail generation
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# on one title to prove writes succeed across the filesystem boundary
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# (EXDEV) — that failure mode can only be tested, not reasoned about.
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- type: bind
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source: /srv/data/plex-media
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target: /config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Media
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# ---- NAS media, mounted at the SAME paths the database stores ---------
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# The remap rewrites \\korval\X -> /mnt/nas/X, so the container must see
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# exactly /mnt/nas/X. Six separate entries rather than one bind of
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# /mnt/nas, because a plain bind does not carry the submounts beneath it.
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# Read-only here AND at the mount AND at the Synology — the mediabox NAS
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# account has no write permission on the library shares. media_pc (the
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# box's write share) is deliberately not exposed to Plex.
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#
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# These are x-systemd.automount paths. A bind into one TRIGGERS the mount
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# (verified 2026-08-04), so a container start after an idle unmount is
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# fine. If the NAS itself is unreachable at start, the bind lands on an
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# empty directory and the library reads as missing — check the mounts
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# first when that happens.
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- type: bind
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source: /mnt/nas/media
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target: /mnt/nas/media
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read_only: true
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- type: bind
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source: /mnt/nas/Radio Shows
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target: /mnt/nas/Radio Shows
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read_only: true
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- type: bind
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source: /mnt/nas/Education Videos
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target: /mnt/nas/Education Videos
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read_only: true
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- type: bind
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source: /mnt/nas/Health
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target: /mnt/nas/Health
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read_only: true
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- type: bind
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source: /mnt/nas/Home Movies
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target: /mnt/nas/Home Movies
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read_only: true
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- type: bind
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source: /mnt/nas/Pictures
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target: /mnt/nas/Pictures
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read_only: true
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tmpfs:
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# Matches TranscoderTempDirectory=/transcode in the generated
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# Preferences.xml. Transcodes are throwaway; keeping them in RAM saves
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# a great deal of SSD write wear. 4G of 16G, capped so a pathological
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# transcode cannot pressure the rest of the system.
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- /transcode:rw,size=4g,mode=1777
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watchtower:
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# Auto-updater — checks daily at 05:00 local, pulls newer images,
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# recreates the container with identical settings, prunes old images,
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# and ntfys arrsstack-alerts about anything it did.
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#
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# OPT-IN MODE (WATCHTOWER_LABEL_ENABLE=true). Watchtower touches ONLY
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# containers carrying com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true.
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# Locally-built images (gamelab, shell-mcp) exist in no registry, so under
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# the old opt-out mode Watchtower HEAD-requested Docker Hub for them,
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# got a 401, and ntfyd a failure every single morning. Opt-in makes the
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# safe thing the default: a new local build is ignored unless someone
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# deliberately labels it. Anything added here that SHOULD auto-update
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# needs enable=true, same as Plex above.
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image: containrrr/watchtower
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container_name: watchtower
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restart: unless-stopped
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labels:
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com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable: "true"
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environment:
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- TZ=${TZ:-America/New_York}
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- WATCHTOWER_LABEL_ENABLE=true
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# Watchtower v1.7.1's bundled docker client defaults to API 1.25 and
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# its version negotiation fails against Engine 29 (min API 1.40),
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# leaving the container in a crash loop. Pinning the API version is
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# the documented workaround. 1.44 is safely inside the supported
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# window on this host (server 1.55, min 1.40).
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- DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.44
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- WATCHTOWER_SCHEDULE=0 0 5 * * *
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- WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP=true
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- WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATIONS=shoutrrr
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- WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_URL=${WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_URL}
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- WATCHTOWER_NOTIFICATION_TEMPLATE={{range .}}{{.Message}}{{println}}{{end}}
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volumes:
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- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
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