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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
This tutorial will show you how to install the Jellyfin media server to the Raspberry Pi.Jellyfin is a media server much like Plex and Emby. The software is designed to stream the media off of your Raspberry Pi to various clients.Where Jellyfin differs itself is in its licensing, the software is open source and completely free-to-use.All of the media server’s features and apps are not locked behind any paywall like its alternatives making Jellyfin a solid choice for the Raspberry Pi.It has many of the same features that software like Plex and Emby have. Such as an inbuilt DVR and live TV functionality.Jellyfin started as a fork of the Emby project after the Emby team moved to be proprietary software.The biggest downside to using the Jellyfin media server on your Raspberry Pi is that it doesn’t have as much client software available.However, it still features a client for most major operating systems, including Fire TV, Roku, Kodi, Android TV, Android, and iOS.The Jellyfin team is working on expanding the support to the major game consoles as and LG’s and Samsung’s TV operating systems.To get the best performance out of the Jellyfin media server we recommend using the Raspberry Pi 4 or newer. While the Pi 3 can run Jellyfin, it will start to come undone once transcoding is heavily used.EquipmentBelow is a list of the equipment we used for installing the Jellyfin media server to the Raspberry Pi.RecommendedRaspberry Pi ( Amazon )Micro SD Card ( Amazon ) (8GB+)Ethernet Cable ( Amazon ) or Wi-Fi ( Amazon )OptionalRaspberry Pi Case ( Amazon )USB Keyboard ( Amazon )USB Mouse ( Amazon )We tested this tutorial on the Raspberry Pi 5 using the latest release of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm.VideoBelow we have embedded a video on how you can set up a Jellyfin media server on the Raspberry Pi. If you prefer to continue at your own pace, scroll passed and follow our written instructions instead.Preparing your Raspberry Pi for JellyfinBefore installing the Jellyfin media server to our Raspberry Pi, we need to do some essential preparatory work.As Jellyfin is available through its repository, we will need to add it for our package manager to install Jellyfin.1. Before we proceed, let us start by ensuring we are running an updated operating system.As long as you are running a Debian operating system such as Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi OS, the following steps will work fine for you.Update your Raspberry Pi’s operating system by using the following two commands.2. With our Raspberry Pi up to date, we need to install some packages to access the Jellyfin package repository.Out of the box, the apt package manager does not have support for repositories running behind HTTPS.To work around this, we can install the apt-transport-https package by running the following command.This package adds support for the HTTPS transport protocol to the apt package manager.3. Next, we need to import the GPG signing key to our Pi.We can use the following command to pipe the key directly to our
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