Kapture Ansible role

Ansible role that provisions a target system with kapture setup

Configured to use:

• Plex - plays content
• Transmission - downloads torrents
• flexget - used to read from showrss and pull in new episodes
• Apple file share: Pointing to storage device
• Samba: Pointing to storage device

Running via vagrant

This repo is set up to be able to spin up a new kapture node locally, without having to go through the using your own pi hardware and whatnot.

OSX pre-req's

You'll need the following tools installed first:

# Install Brew if not already installed
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

# Install Cask within brew
brew tap caskroom/cask

# use Brew to install vagrant and virtualbox 
brew cask install vagrant virtualbox

Starting up kapture in vagrant

To get started, simply run the following:

vagrant up

This will take some time to set up kapture the way it needs to be configured. In the meantime, grab a beer.

Once that's complete (you may see some warnings and errors but as long as it gets to a part where it says System built successfully. Connect to... you're good to go). Then simply connect to:

http://kapture-vagrant.local

or if your mDNS isn't working:

http://192.168.33.10/

Pi setup

First use the following image flashed onto a sd card in order to get a base OS:

https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org/xenial/ubuntu-standard-16.04-server-armhf-raspberry-pi.img.xz.torrent

Put the sd card into the pi, power it up, and run the following in this directory in order to transform a pi into a kapture:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/xenial initial-setup.yml --ask-sudo-pass

On first run It will prompt you for a sudo pass, which is ubuntu. Let that complete and you should have a new kapture device located at:

http://kapture.local/

It will also set a SSH password for the ubuntu user of: kapture is the bombest thing ever. Last it sets up some authorized_keys for that user as defined by the group_vars file.

Hardware requirements

• Raspberry PI (or other pi's) w/ ubuntu 16.04
• SSH key-based login configured properly with sudo access from machine running ansible (ssh_authorized_keys)
• Storage device setup, connected, and working correctly (you may need to change the target device via storage_block_device. See group_vars/pi.yml)

Troubleshooting

If plex won't play certain videos because the bananapi isn't powerful enough, you'll need to use the included script convert-avi-to-x264.sh on the file that won't play properly.