Varken

Dutch for PIG. PIG is an Acronym for Plex/InfluxDB/Grafana

Varken is a standalone command-line utility to aggregate data from the plex ecosystem into InfluxDB. Examples use Grafana for a frontend

Requirements /w install links: Grafana, Python3, InfluxDB

Quick Setup (Varken Alpha)

1. Clone the repository sudo git clone https://github.com/DirtyCajunRice/grafana-scripts.git /opt/Varken
2. Change ownership to current user sudo chown $USER -R /opt/Varken/
3. Switch to the testing branch cd /opt/Varken && git checkout refactor-project
4. Create venv in project /usr/bin/python3 -m venv varken-venv
5. Install requirements /opt/Varken/varken-venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Make a copy of varken.example.ini to varken.ini in the data folder cp /opt/Varken/data/varken.example.ini /opt/Varken/data/varken.ini
7. Make the appropriate changes to varken.ini nano /opt/Varken/data/varken.ini
8. Copy the systemd file sudo cp /opt/Varken/varken.service /etc/systemd/system/
9. Edit the username of the systemd file sudo sed -i "s/username/$USER" /etc/systemd/system/varken.service
10. start the service and enable it systemctl start varken && systemctl enable varken
11. After completing the getting started portion of grafana, create your datasource for influxdb. At a minimum, you will need the plex database.
12. Install grafana-cli plugins install grafana-worldmap-panel
13. TODO:: Click the + on your menu and click import. Using the .json provided in this repo, paste it in and customize as you like.

Docker

Repo is included in si0972/grafana-scripts-docker

Example

docker create \
  --name=grafana-scripts \
  -v <path to data>:/Scripts \
  -e PGID=<gid> -e PUID=<uid>  \
  si0972/grafana-scripts:varken