My Raspberry Pi server setup

Documentation to install my Raspberry Pi server setup including

• Photoprism + Syncthing for open-source alternative to Google Photos
  • Automatic backup
  • View online on any device
• Calibre server for ebook library and management
  • Website for management and viewing/downloading on any device
  • Standard OPDS support for KOReader (Kobo) and Moon Reader (Android phone)

Photoprism + Syncthing (required as base image)

1. Flash the PhotoprismPi image
2. Install Syncthing as a service

   sudo apt-get update -y
   sudo apt-get full-upgrade -y
   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
   curl -s https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/syncthing-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
   echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/syncthing-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
   sudo apt-get update -y
   sudo apt-get install syncthing

   Change IP to local one to only allow LAN connections

   syncthing &
   vim ~/.config/syncthing/config.xml

   and change <address>127.0.0.1:8384</address> to <address>192.168.x.x:8384</address>. Set up as a service

   sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/syncthing.service

   and add

   [Unit]
   Description=Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
   Documentation=man:syncthing(1)
   After=network.target
   
   [Service]
   User=pi
   ExecStart=/usr/bin/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logflags=0
   Restart=on-failure
   RestartSec=5
   SuccessExitStatus=3 4
   RestartForceExitStatus=3 4
   
   # Hardening
   ProtectSystem=full
   PrivateTmp=true
   SystemCallArchitectures=native
   MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
   NoNewPrivileges=true
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target

   And finally enable with

   sudo systemctl enable syncthing
   sudo systemctl start syncthing

   Access GUI with 192.168.x.x:8384.
3. Copy or adjust Photoprism settings from photoprism/docker-compose.yml to /boot/firmware/docker-compose/photoprism/docker-compose.yml and edit Syncthing correspondingly
4. Edit the crontab

   crontab -e
   
   0 6 * * * cd /boot/firmware/docker-compose/photoprism && docker-compose exec photoprism photoprism index

   And add scheduled rebooting with sudo privileges

   sudo crontab -e
   
   0 4 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now

5. (Optional) Refresh domain with a free domain service (dy.fi for Finnish IPs).

   crontab -e
   
   0 1 * * * wget --delete-after --no-check-certificate --no-proxy --user=EMAIL --password=PASSWORD https://www.dy.fi/nic/update?hostname=DOMAIN.dy.fi
   @reboot sleep 300 && wget --delete-after --no-check-certificate --no-proxy --user=EMAIL --password=PASSWORD https://www.dy.fi/nic/update?hostname=DOMAIN.dy.fi

6. Perform possible fstab changes for mounting USB hard-drive

   sudo /etc/fstab
   
   # Add something like the following for where to mount,  adjust file system (ext4 here) and UUID
   # These can be seen with `lsblk -f`
   UUID=049e038e-bbcb-46ae-b331-7c0f6028d8aa  /media/b/      ext4    defaults,nofail,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Calibre server

Implemented using Docker compose using linuxserver/docker-calibre-web. Copy the calibre folder in the repo to the server and consider the following steps. The modified init is required for having correct permissions to edit book metadata.

1. Create the config, library, and addbooks folders under some folder ebooks/ (/media/b/Media/ebooks/ in example).
2. Run docker-compose up -d in the calibre folder
3. Schedule importing books

   crontab -e
   
   0 3 * * * cd ~/calibre-web && docker-compose exec calibre-web calibredb add -r "/addbooks" --library-path="/books" && rm -rf /media/b/Media/ebooks/addbooks/*

4. Start using Calibre through the default port 8083. This can be forwarded in the Docker compose YML or in your router. The OPDS API is located at HOSTNAME:8083/opds.

Transmission torrent client

Transmission is setup to download torrents given in some folder, and move them to a given output folder upon completion. This is setup using Docker compose with jaymoulin/transmission.

1. Create the to_download, incomplete, and config folders under some folder transmission/. The output is setup as the addbooks folder in Calibre server.
2. Run docker-compose up -d once.
3. Edit the rpc-whitelist filed in config/settings.json to the following

   "rpc-password": "{sha1 of password",
   "rpc-username": "username"
   ...
   "rpc-whitelist": "*.*.*.*",

4. Start using Transmission through the default ports 9091 and 51413. These can be forwarded in the Docker compose YML or in your router.

Improvements

• Implement Syncthing with Docker compose instead of manual install.