TUISTREAM (tuistream)

A terminal UI for setting up and running a headless Jellyfin media server on Arch / Omarchy — over SSH, with no desktop environment. It installs Jellyfin, attaches and mounts media drives (single disks or btrfs RAID pools), opens the firewall, and shows a live health monitor, all without dropping you to a shell or switching terminals mid-task.

TUISTREAM is an independent setup/management tool for Jellyfin. It is not affiliated with the Jellyfin project; "Jellyfin" is used here descriptively.

Features

• Setup — install / uninstall Jellyfin, open or close the firewall ports, copy the server's web address to your clipboard (works over SSH + tmux), and move Jellyfin's library storage onto a media drive.
• Hardware transcoding ready out of the box — the installer detects the machine's GPU (Intel / AMD / NVIDIA) and installs the matching encoding packages (Intel QSV/VA-API, AMD VA-API) so clients that need a transcode don't hit "fatal playback error". NVIDIA NVENC needs only the driver you already have; if no NVIDIA driver is loaded the installer says so rather than guessing which kernel driver to install.
• Drive spin-down by default — spinning media drives are automatically put to sleep after 3 idle minutes (cooler, quieter) by a tiny background watcher that survives reboots — and works even on NAS drives that ignore their own firmware idle timer (looking at you, WD Red). System drives are never touched; s opts out if you want 24/7 spinning.
• Add media drive — attach a spare disk or partition: keep its existing filesystem or format it (btrfs / ext4 / xfs), or combine 2+ disks into a btrfs RAID pool (1 / 0 / 5 / 10). The boot drive is never offered — the classifier follows every candidate down through LUKS / LVM / RAID to its physical disk and refuses anything hosting /, /boot, or swap.
• Import an existing btrfs pool — re-attach a multi-device pool from a previous setup non-destructively (mounts it as-is; never formats).
• Safe with existing media — keeping a filesystem previews what's on it, skips creating starter folders when it already has content, and grants Jellyfin read access recursively so existing media is actually visible to the scanner.
• Manage — copy media in from an external drive (with a file picker), mount / eject drives, and rename or delete files, each behind a confirmation.
• Monitor — per-core CPU, load / memory / uptime, per-mount capacity, btrfs pool error counters, and per-disk SMART health — for a box you only reach over SSH.
• Single static binary; missing tools (btrfs-progs, xfsprogs, acl, …) are installed on first launch.

Install

One line, nothing to clone:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/28allday/TUISTREAM/main/install.sh | bash

This installs the right binary for your architecture into /usr/local/bin (using sudo if needed) so both tuistream and sudo tuistream resolve. Pin a version with TUISTREAM_VERSION=v0.1.0, or change the prefix with PREFIX=/opt.

TUISTREAM installs to a system path on purpose: it's a root-by-design tool (installs Jellyfin, edits /etc/fstab, mounts drives), so it must be on the sudo secure_path — ~/.local/bin is not.

Usage

sudo tuistream                 # full TUI
tuistream --read-only          # inventory views only, no root, no actions

Run with sudo, it acts on behalf of the real user behind the sudo invocation ($SUDO_USER): media drives mount under /media/<user>/ and its Omarchy theme is used. tab / shift+tab switch tabs, r refreshes, q quits; each tab shows its key bar at the bottom.

Getting started

A first-run, from an empty box to a working server — all from the Setup tab (sudo tuistream):

1. Install Jellyfin — press i and confirm. TUISTREAM pulls Jellyfin from the official Arch repo and starts the service.
2. Attach storage for your media:
   • A spare disk → press a (add drive), pick it, choose Keep existing filesystem or format it, and name it. It mounts at /media/<user>/<name>.
   • A multi-disk btrfs pool from a previous setup → press p (import pool) to re-attach it untouched. (p only shows when such a pool is present.)
   • On a fresh drive, TUISTREAM seeds library folders for you under <mount>/JellyfinMedia/: Movies, Shows, Music, Books, Home Videos, Music Videos. Copy your media into these (the Manage tab's c can copy in from an external drive).
3. Open the firewall — press f so other devices on your LAN can reach the server (ports 8096/tcp web UI and 7359/udp discovery).
4. Open the web UI — press y to copy the server's address (http://<host>:8096) to your clipboard, even over SSH, then open it in a browser on any LAN device.
5. Create your libraries in Jellyfin — in the web UI's first-run wizard, add a library for each type and point it at the matching folder under /media/<user>/<name>/JellyfinMedia/ (e.g. Movies → …/JellyfinMedia/Movies). The folder names already match Jellyfin's content types.

Optional: press j to move Jellyfin's own library database and metadata off the OS drive onto a media drive (handy on a small boot SSD).

Note on drive spin-down: when TUISTREAM sees spinning media drives it automatically installs a small watcher service that spins them down after 3 idle minutes, so they don't run hot 24/7. (It watches actual disk I/O rather than trusting the drive's own idle timer, which many NAS drives silently ignore.) The first play after a sleep takes a few seconds while the drives wake. Press s to opt out — TUISTREAM remembers and won't re-apply the default.

Build from source

Needs Go 1.26+.

git clone https://github.com/28allday/TUISTREAM
cd TUISTREAM
./install.sh    # builds, then installs to /usr/local/bin

License

MIT — see LICENSE. TUISTREAM runs Jellyfin (GPL-2.0) as a separate process; it does not bundle or link it. The terminal UI is built on the Charm libraries (MIT).