couchpotato/couchpotato repository overview

⁠About

This is a Docker image for CouchPotato⁠ - the awesome movie PVR for usenet and torrents.

The Docker image currently supports:

• running CouchPotato under its own user (not root)
• changing of the UID and GID for the CouchPotato user
• support for OpenSSL / HTTPS encryption

⁠Run

⁠Run via Docker CLI client

To run the CouchPotato container you can execute:

docker run --name couchpotato -v <datadir path>:/datadir -v <media path>:/media -p 5050:5050 couchpotato/couchpotato

Open a browser and point it to http://my-docker-host:5050⁠

⁠Run via Docker Compose

You can also run the CouchPotato container by using Docker Compose⁠.

If you've cloned the git repository⁠ you can build and run the Docker container locally (without the Docker Hub):

docker-compose up -d

If you want to use the Docker Hub image within your existing Docker Compose file you can use the following YAML snippet:

couchpotato:
    image: "couchpotato/couchpotato"
    container_name: "couchpotato"
    volumes:
        - "<datadir path>:/datadir"
        - "<media path>:/media"
    ports:
        - "5050:5050"
    restart: always

⁠Configuration

⁠Volumes

Please mount the following volumes inside your CouchPotato container:

• /datadir: Holds all the CouchPotato data files (e.g. config, postProcessing)
• /media: Directory for movies

⁠Configuration file

By default the CouchPotato configuration is located on /datadir/config.ini. If you want to change this you've to set the CONFIG environment variable, for example:

CONFIG=/datadir/couchpotato.ini

⁠UID and GID

By default CouchPotato runs with user ID and group ID 666. If you want to run CouchPotato with different ID's you've to set the CP_UID and/or CP_GID environment variables, for example:

CP_UID=1234
CP_GID=1234