Varken

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

Varken is a standalone commmand-line utility that will aggregate date from the plex ecosystem into influxdb to be displayed in grafana

Requirements /w install links: Grafana, Python3, InfluxDB

Quick Setup (Varken Alpha)

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