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:

• Python3.6.7+
• Python3-pip
• InfluxDB

Example Dashboard

Supported Modules:

• Sonarr - Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.
• SickChill - SickChill is an automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows.
• Radarr - A fork of Sonarr to work with movies à la Couchpotato.
• Tautulli - A Python based monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server.
• Ombi - Want a Movie or TV Show on Plex or Emby? Use Ombi!
• Cisco ASA

Key features:

• Multiple server support for all modules
• Geolocation mapping from GeoLite2
• Grafana Worldmap Panel support

Quick Setup (Git Clone)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken.git /opt/Varken

# Follow the systemd install instructions located in varken.systemd
cp /opt/Varken/varken.systemd /etc/systemd/system/varken.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/varken.service

# Create venv in project
/usr/bin/python3 -m venv /opt/Varken/varken-venv

# Install requirements
/opt/Varken/varken-venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

# 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

# Make the appropriate changes to varken.ini
nano /opt/Varken/data/varken.ini

# Make sure all the files have the appropriate permissions
chown $USER:$USER -R /opt/Varken

# Start the service and enable it
systemctl start varken
systemctl enable varken

Docker

Example

docker run -d \
  --name=varken \
  -v <path to data>:/config \
  -e PGID=<gid> -e PUID=<uid> \
  -e TZ=America/Chicago \
  boerderij/varken

Tags

• latest
• nightly
• release-tag e.g. v1.0

Upgrading with docker

docker stop varken
docker rm varken
# Run deploy command above

InfluxDB

InfluxDB Installation Documentation

Influxdb is required but not packaged as part of Varken. Varken will create its database on its own. If you choose to give varken user permissions that do not include database creation, please ensure you create an influx database named varken

Grafana

Grafana Installation Documentation
Official Example Dashboards

Grafana is used in our examples but not required, nor packaged as part of Varken. Panel examples now exist in both nightly and tagged releases hosted on grafana.com (link above).

1. Use the link above, then click on your desired dashboard version
2. Click Copy ID to Clipboard
3. In grafana, click your dashboards menu dropdown, and then click Import dashboard
4. Paste the ID into the Grafana.com Dashboard field and then click into empty space on the screen. (This should change the screen to show Importing Dashboard from Grafana.com
5. Select your varken datasource name in the dropdown labeled Varken
6. Click Import!