Docker Compose does not work

[kylewhirl]

Docker compose file runs into issue where the Docker container will not run because the config.json and channels.json files are mounted as directories instead of as files

[speakradmin]

Yes please clarify initial setup with docker. Using debian 12 with vanilla docker. I change directory to /opt create docker-compose.yaml and add the contents from the readme. When I run docker compose up -d It doesn't seem to start the container. It's looking for the config and channel files and I can't figure out where to put them.

docker logs opt-plex-dvr-hls-1

2024/06/06 14:30:14 read channels.json: is a directory time="2024-06-06 14:30:14" level=info msg="Parser started" time="2024-06-06 14:31:40" level=info msg="Parser started" 2024/06/06 14:31:40 read channels.json: is a directory

A directory named config.json and channells.json gets created so I assumed I should just create the json files in there ie:

nano config.json/config.json and nano channels.json/channels.json but that doesn't work

[GregTroar]

same here, always a problem to bind files with docker compose....

[speakradmin]

Try this:

mkdir /opt/plex-dvr-hls

mkdir /opt/plex-dvr-hls/config

Then cd to /opt and use this docker compose file

cd /opt

nano /opt/docker-compose.yaml

services:
    plex-dvr-hls:
        image: ghcr.io/duncanleo/plex-dvr-hls:latest
        volumes:
            - /opt/plex-dvr-hls/config/config.json:/app/config.json:ro
            - /opt/plex-dvr-hls/config/channels.json:/app/channels.json:ro
            - /opt/plex-dvr-hls/templates:/templates:ro
        ports:
           - 5004:5004

docker compose up -d

Create the config.json, channels.json and template files

nano /opt/plex-dvr-hls/config/config.json

nano /opt/plex-dvr-hls/config/channels.json

nano /opt/plex-dvr-hls/templates/xmltv.tmpl

One by one add the contents as described in the readme

docker restart plex-dvr-hls

[ray-frey]

Same issue here. Do any of the older releases work properly with docker compose?

[duncanleo]

Hi all, apologies for the confusion. I think the root cause here is the following:

• unclear instructions on creating and placing channels.json and config.json
• Docker Compose volume creating and mounting directories by default if the above files did not exist

I've switched the sample docker-compose.yml over to utilise Docker bind mounts, which will cause Docker Compose to display an error instead of creating directories.

I've also updated the README to clarify the need for the two files to be created.

Please let me know if there are more improvements that can be made here!

[speakradmin]

It's working thank you @duncanleo