Jellyfin Theater is a local client that connects to a Jellyfin server.

Currently the jellyfin-theater-electron connects using http protocol.

This application is implemented as an electron app and is built off of a NodeJS code base. Because of this you will need to NodeJS runtime and package manager. The following versions have been tested:

If you are looking to use the Jellyfin Theater you will need to start by downloading this repository via the git command, or by downloading a zip. you can do so by either

SSH

$ git clone [email protected]:jellyfin/jellyfin-theater-electron.git

HTTPS

$ git clone https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-theater-electron.git

Note : If you dont have git installed you can allways download a zip by clicking the green clone or download button on the right and then clicking Download Zip

After downloading the source the source you will need to install the dependencies for the project. You can do so by typing into your terminal

$ cd jellyfin-theater-electron

$ npm install

Once the installation has been finished you will need to run this command in the directory to activate the program.

$ npm start

At first launch, you will be asked to enter your server address. This parameter is kept in:

• %APPDATA%/Jellyfin Theater on Windows
• ~/.config/Jellyfin Theater on Linux
• ~/Library/Application Support/Jellyfin Theater on macOS

Start of building and releasing by commiting as usual, then you want to run these commands for the select operating system when you begin to release a final package version of the app you will then need to install these deps using the following command

$ npm install -g electron-packager

after installing this dependency you will want to create a directory called release/ in the root directory.

Note : If you are on ubuntu you may need to install additional dependencies

# apt-get -y install \
	libgtkextra-dev libgconf2-dev \
	libnss3 \
	libxss1 \
	libasound2 \
	libxtst-dev

$ npm run package-win

$ npm run package-linux

$ npm run package-mac