Dockerized version of androidtvbackground

• docker-compose.yml file is the preferred way

  1. Update the volume mapping to your local location for the config files as well as where the background images will be saved to. Backgrounds can be saved to within a subdir of the config location if you want them both in the same spot, or a different location.
  2. Set the env variables to 'True' for each of the scripts you want run. They are all set to False by default and will not run.
  3. Set the user to your hosts user uid/gid for volume mapping permissions. This allows the container to run as nonroot for better security.
  4. If you want to have the container stay started and create backgrounds on a schedule, set the cron to a cron format expression.
     ie: set CRON="0 0 * * *" to have the backgrounds created once a day at midnight. Set to 'False' to not use a schedule. Note that the time inside the container will be your hosts time in UTC.

  From within your docker-compose.yml directory, run:
  docker compose up -d

• Alternative install is via docker run command line
  It would look something like this, depending on config options that you want:

  docker run -d --user 99:100 --name androidtvbackground -v /your/local/path/for/config:/config -v /your/local/path/for/backgrounds:/backgrounds -e PLEX=True -e JELLYFIN=False -e TMDB=True -e TRAKT=False -e POST_SCRIPT_PY=False -e POST_SCRIPT_SH=True -e CRON="0 0 * * *" ghcr.io/ninthwalker/androidtvbackground:latest
  

• Unraid Installation

  1. This app is published within Unraid's community applications and can be directly installed from there.

• The last install method is to build it yourself locally using the Dockerfile from this repo

  1. Clone this repo and extract contents
  2. From within the extracted folder, open a cmd prompt and run:
     docker build . -t androidtvbackground
  3. Once built, you can reference the local image in your docker-compose.yml file or your run cmd. A run cmd would look something like this, depending on config options that you want:

  docker run -d --user 99:100 --name androidtvbackground -v /your/local/path/for/config:/config -v /your/local/path/for/backgrounds:/backgrounds -e PLEX=True -e JELLYFIN=False -e TMDB=True -e TRAKT=False -e POST_SCRIPT_PY=False -e POST_SCRIPT_SH=True -e CRON="0 0 * * *" androidtvbackground
  

• Script files will be copied into your mapped config volume on your host.
  1. Edit these according to the instructions
  2. Start the container again with: docker start androidtvbackground

• Each script set to 'True' will run when the docker is started. If CRON is set to a schedule, the container will stay running and create backgrounds according to your CRON schedule.
• If CRON is set to 'False', the container will stop after creating backgrounds and you will need to manually start it again to create more backgrounds with:
  docker start <name of docker>
  Note that backgrounds will always be created the first time the container starts, even when a cron schedule is set.

• Scripts can be found in the container /config directory that should be mapped to your local system for access. Edit these files as per the instructions

  • user Set this to match the uid/gui permissions of your mapped volumes to correctly be able to access the scripts and background files.
  • PLEX: If set to True, retrieves backgrounds from your own Plex Server.
  • JELLYFIN: If set to True, retrieves backgrounds from your own Jellyfin Server.
  • TMDB: If set to True, retrieves backgrounds from The Movie Database
  • TRAKT: If set to True, retrieves plex backgrounds from Trakt
  • CRON: If set to a cron expression (ie: CRON="0 0 * * *") the docker will stay running and create backgrounds during the schedule you set. If you would rather manually start the docker to create backgrounds, set this to False
  • POST_SCRIPT_PY: If set to True, you can define your own python code in the 'post_script.py' file and it will be run at the end of the background creation.
  • POST_SCRIPT_SH: If set to True, you can define your own shell code in the 'post_script.sh' file and it will be run at the end of the background creation.
    • Useful to copy the files to a specific share, directly to android tv or a subreddit for example.

• Note: that if you define both python and shell post_scripts, the python is run first and then the shell script.

• Note 2: Make sure variable names are capitalized as shown in the above examples. ie: PLEX: True and not plex: True