increase verbosity of init-video

README.md

@@ -371,7 +371,8 @@ Once registered you can define the dockerfile to use with `-f Dockerfile.aarch64
 
 ## Versions
 
-* **12.02.24:** - Use universal hardware acceleration blurb
+* **01.05.24:** - Increase verbosity of device permissions fixing.
+* **12.02.24:** - Use universal hardware acceleration blurb.
 * **12.09.23:** - Take ownership of plugin directories.
 * **04.07.23:** - Deprecate armhf. As announced [here](https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/a-farewell-to-arm-hf)
 * **07.12.22:** - Rebase master to Jammy, migrate to s6v3.

readme-vars.yml

@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ param_usage_include_ports: true
 param_ports:
   - {external_port: "8096", internal_port: "8096", port_desc: "Http webUI."}
 param_usage_include_env: true
-param_env_vars:
-  - {env_var: "TZ", env_value: "Europe/London", desc: "Specify a timezone to use (e.g. Europe/London)."}
 # optional container parameters
 opt_param_usage_include_env: true
 opt_param_env_vars:
@@ -104,7 +102,8 @@ readme_hwaccel: true
 unraid_template_sync: false
 # changelog
 changelogs:
-  - {date: "12.02.24:", desc: "Use universal hardware acceleration blurb"}
+  - {date: "01.05.24:", desc: "Increase verbosity of device permissions fixing."}
+  - {date: "12.02.24:", desc: "Use universal hardware acceleration blurb."}
   - {date: "12.09.23:", desc: "Take ownership of plugin directories."}
   - {date: "04.07.23:", desc: "Deprecate armhf. As announced [here](https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/a-farewell-to-arm-hf)"}
   - {date: "07.12.22:", desc: "Rebase master to Jammy, migrate to s6v3."}

root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-jellyfin-video/run

@@ -3,19 +3,33 @@
 
 FILES=$(find /dev/dri /dev/dvb /dev/vchiq /dev/vc-mem /dev/video1? -type c -print 2>/dev/null)
 
-for i in $FILES
-do
-    VIDEO_GID=$(stat -c '%g' "$i")
-    if ! id -G abc | grep -qw "$VIDEO_GID"; then
-        VIDEO_NAME=$(getent group "${VIDEO_GID}" | awk -F: '{print $1}')
-        if [[ -z "${VIDEO_NAME}" ]]; then
-            VIDEO_NAME="video$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c8)"
-            groupadd "$VIDEO_NAME"
-            groupmod -g "$VIDEO_GID" "$VIDEO_NAME"
+for i in ${FILES}; do
+    VIDEO_GID=$(stat -c '%g' "${i}")
+    VIDEO_UID=$(stat -c '%u' "${i}")
+    # check if user matches device
+    if id -u abc | grep -qw "${VIDEO_UID}"; then
+        echo "**** permissions for ${i} are good ****"
+    else
+        # check if group matches and that device has group rw
+        if id -G abc | grep -qw "${VIDEO_GID}" && [[ $(stat -c '%A' "${i}" | cut -b 5,6) == "rw" ]]; then
+            echo "**** permissions for ${i} are good ****"
+        # check if device needs to be added to video group
+        elif ! id -G abc | grep -qw "${VIDEO_GID}"; then
+            # check if video group needs to be created
+            VIDEO_NAME=$(getent group "${VIDEO_GID}" | awk -F: '{print $1}')
+            if [[ -z "${VIDEO_NAME}" ]]; then
+                VIDEO_NAME="video$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | head -c4)"
+                groupadd "${VIDEO_NAME}"
+                groupmod -g "${VIDEO_GID}" "${VIDEO_NAME}"
+                echo "**** creating video group ${VIDEO_NAME} with id ${VIDEO_GID} ****"
+            fi
+            echo "**** adding ${i} to video group ${VIDEO_NAME} with id ${VIDEO_GID} ****"
+            usermod -a -G "${VIDEO_NAME}" abc
         fi
-        usermod -a -G "$VIDEO_NAME" abc
-        if [ $(stat -c '%A' "${i}" | cut -b 5,6) != "rw" ]; then
-            echo -e "**** The device ${i} does not have group read/write permissions, which might prevent hardware transcode from functioning correctly. To fix it, you can run the following on your docker host: ****\nsudo chmod g+rw ${i}\n"
+        # check if device has group rw
+        if [[ $(stat -c '%A' "${i}" | cut -b 5,6) != "rw" ]]; then
+            echo -e "**** The device ${i} does not have group read/write permissions, attempting to fix inside the container. ****"
+            chmod g+rw "${i}"
         fi
     fi
 done