Loomis

Loomis is a collection of services to assist in your Plex and Emby media management.

1. Playlist Sync

• Allows the syncing of Plex Collections to Emby Playlists

Each service can be configured independently. Each service allows for a cron rate on when to run.

Installing Loomis

Loomis offers a pre-compiled docker image

Usage

Use docker compose to run Loomis

compose.yml

---
services:
  loomis:
    image: brikim/loomis:latest
    container_name: loomis
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    environment:
      - TZ=America/Chicago
    volumes:
      - /docker/loomis/config:/config
      - /docker/loomis/logs:/logs
      - /pathToMedia:/media
    restart: unless-stopped

Note

📝 /media folder can not be read only for all services to function correctly

Environment Variables

Env	Function
TZ	specify a timezone to use

Volume Mappings

Volume	Function
/config	Path to a folder containing config.yml used to setup Loomis
/logs	Path to a folder to store Loomis log files
/media	Path to your media files. Used by services to monitor your media files

Configuration File

A configuration file is required to use Loomis. Create a config.conf file in the volume mapped to /config

config.conf

{
    "plex": {
        "servers": [
            {
                "server_name": "Server1",
                "url": "http://0.0.0.0:32400",
                "api_key": "",
                "tracker_url": "http://0.0.0.0:0",
                "tracker_api_key": "",
                "media_path": "/media/"
            },
            {
                "server_name": "Server2",
                "media_path": "/media/",
                "url": "http://0.0.0.0:32401",
                "api_key": "",
                "tracker_url": "http://0.0.0.0:0",
                "tracker_api_key": ""
            }
        ]
    },

    "emby": {
        "servers": [
            {
                "server_name": "Server1",
                "url": "http://0.0.0.0:8096",
                "api_key": "",
                "tracker_url": "http://0.0.0.0:0",
                "tracker_api_key": "",
                "media_path": "/media/"
            },
            {
                "server_name": "Server2",
                "url": "http://0.0.0.0:8097",
                "api_key": "",
                "tracker_url": "http://0.0.0.0:0",
                "tracker_api_key": "",
                "media_path": "/media/"
            }
        ],
    },

    "apprise_logging": {
        "enabled": true,
        "url": "http://0.0.0.0:0",
        "key": "apprise",
        "message_title": "Test loomis notification"
    },

    "playlist_sync": {
        "enabled": true,
        "cron_comment": "Non-Standard cron expression. First digit is seconds so leave this as 0 if this accuracy is not needed and fill in the rest with standard cron expression",
        "cron": "0 0 */2 * * *",
        "time_for_emby_to_update_seconds": 1,
        "time_between_syncs_seconds": 1,
        "plex_collection_sync": [
            {"server": "Server1", "library": "Server1_LibraryName", "collection_name": "plexCollectionName", "target_emby_servers": [{"server": "Server1"}, {"server": "Server2"}]}
        ]
    },

    "watch_state_sync": {
        "enabled": true,
        "cron_run_rate": "0 0 */2 * * *",
        "users": [
            {"plex": [{"server": "Server1", "user_name": "User1", "can_sync": true}], "emby": [{"server": "Server1", "user_name": "User1"}, {"server": "Server2", "user_name": "User1"}]},
            {"plex": [{"server": "Server1", "user_name": "User2", "can_sync": false}], "emby": [{"server": "Server1", "user_name": "User2"}, {"server": "Server2", "user_name": "User2"}]}
        ]
    }
}

Option Descriptions

You only have to define the variables for servers in your system. For plex only define plex_url and plex_api_key in your file. The emby and jellyfin variables are not required.

Media Server	Function
plex	A list of plex servers used
emby	A list of emby servers used

Apprise Logging

Not required unless wanting to send Warnings or Errors to Apprise

Apprise	Function
enabled	Enable the function with 'True'
url	Url including port to your apprise server
key	Apprise key to be used to send notifications
message_title	Title to put in the title bar of the message

Playlist Sync

Playlist Sync will sync Plex Collections to Emby Playlists with the same name. This will run at the scheduled rate and update the Emby playlist to match the Plex collection.

playlist_sync	Function
enabled	Enable the sync watch service
cron	Rate at which to run this service. Non-Standard cron expression. First digit is seconds so leave this as 0 if this accuracy is not needed and fill in the rest with standard cron expression
time_for_emby_to_update_seconds	How many seconds to give the Emby server to update
time_between_syncs_seconds	How many seconds to give the Emby server between sync updates

1 to many plex collections can be synced

plex_collection_sync	Function
server	The name of the plex server for this collection. Must be in the plex server list.
library	The name of the plex library that contains this collection.
collection_name	The name of the collection to sync.
target_emby_servers	A list of emby servers to sync the plex collection.