Universal Media Server (or UMS for short) is a pretty cool program that will both create a browsable website of your media as well as stream it to compliant devices that support UPnP or DLNA.

This howto is adapted from this article describing how to install an older version of UMS on an older version of Ubuntu.

*This article assumes the hostname of your server is MyMediaServer

Install UMS

Install the necessary packages by running the following commands

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
apt-get install mediainfo dcraw vlc-bin mplayer mencoder

Install UMS 8.0.1 by running the following commands

cd /opt
sudo wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/unimediaserver/Official%20Releases/Linux/UMS-8.0.1.tgz
sudo tar -xvzf UMS-8.0.1.tgz
sudo ln -s /opt/ums-8.0.1 ums
sudo rm UMS-8.0.1.tgz

Make UMS Start on Boot

Create an init.d script by running

sudo nano /etc/init.d/ums

and copying the following into that file

#!/bin/bash
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          ums
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Starts UMS program.
# Description:       Java Upnp Media Server dedicated to PS3
### END INIT INFO

#set -x

# Author: Papa Issa DIAKHATE <paissad@gmail.com>
#
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="Universal Media Server"
NAME=ums
UMS_PROFILE=/etc/UMS.conf
DAEMON=/opt/ums/UMS.sh
DAEMON_OPTS="console"
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/ums
UMS_START=1 # Wether to start or not UMS ver at boot time.
DODTIME=30  # Time to wait for the server to die, in seconds.
            # If this value is set too low you might not
            # let the program to die gracefully and 'restart' will not work

test -x $DAEMON || exit 1

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# Include ums defaults if available
if [ -f "/etc/default/$NAME" ] ; then
        . /etc/default/$NAME
fi

# May we run the init.d script ?
[ $UMS_START = 1 ] || exit 1

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Some color codes
txtred=$'\e[0;31m' # Red
txtylw=$'\e[0;33m' # Yellow
txtrst=$'\e[0m'    # Text Reset
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
warnout(){
    echo >&2 -e ""$txtylw"Warning:$txtrst $1"
}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
running(){
    pid=`pgrep -f 'java .*ums.jar.*'`
}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
do_start(){
    running && { warnout "$NAME is already running !"; exit 0; }
    echo "Starting $DESC : $NAME"
    UMS_PROFILE="$UMS_PROFILE" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --oknodo \
        --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS

}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
do_stop(){
    running || { warnout "$NAME is NOT running !"; exit 0; }   
    local countdown="$DODTIME"
    echo -e "Stopping $DESC : $NAME \c "
    kill -9 $pid
    while running; do
        if (($countdown >= 0)); then
            sleep 1; echo -n .;
            ((--countdown))
        else
            break;
        fi
    done
    echo
    # If still running, then try to send SIGINT signal
    running && { \
        echo >&2 "Using kill -s SIGINT instead"; \
        echo >&2 "If you see this message again, then you should increase the value of DODTIME in '$0'."; \
        kill -2 $pid; \
    }

    if [ -e "/usr/share/ums/debug.log" ]; then
    count=9
    while [ $count -ge 1 ]
    do
    if [ -e "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.$count" ]; then
        plus=$((count+1))
        mv "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.$count" "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.$plus"
    fi
        count=$((count-1))
    done
    if [ -e "/usr/share/ums/debug.log" ]; then
        mv "/usr/share/ums/debug.log" "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.1"
    fi
    fi

    return 0
}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
do_force-stop(){
    running || { warnout "$NAME is NOT running !"; exit 0; }   
    echo "Stopping $DESC : $NAME"
    kill -9 $pid
    if [ -e "/usr/share/ums/debug.log" ]; then
    count=9
    while [ $count -ge 1 ]
    do
    if [ -e "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.$count" ]; then
        plus=$((count+1))
   mv "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.$count" "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.$plus"
    fi
       count=$((count-1))
    done
    if [ -e "/usr/share/ums/debug.log" ]; then
   mv "/usr/share/ums/debug.log" "/usr/share/ums/debug.log.1"
    fi
    fi
}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
do_status(){
    echo -n " * $NAME is "
    ( running || { echo "NOT running "; exit 0; } )
    ( running && { echo "running (PID -> $(echo $pid))"; exit 0; } )
}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
case "$1" in

    start|stop|force-stop|status)
        do_${1}
        ;;
    restart|reload)
        do_stop
        do_start
        ;;
    force-restart|force-reload)
        do_force-stop
        do_start
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|force-stop|restart|force-restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

Make that script executable by running
```
chmod +x /etc/init.d/ums
```
Make the system aware of your new script by running
```
update-rc.d ums defaults
```

Configure UMS

Copy the default configuration files to /etc/ by running the following commands
```
sudo cp /opt/ums/UMS.conf /etc/
sudo cp /opt/ums/WEB.conf /etc/ums/
```

Edit UMS.conf by running

sudo nano /etc/UMS.conf

and setting the following variables (you'll have to setup folders and folders_monitored to something specific for your environment)

server_name = MyMediaServer
language = en-US
minimized = true
auto_update = true
hide_advanced_options = false
single_instance = true
chromecast_extension = true
prettify_filenames = true
show_server_settings_folder = true
atz_limit = 3000
show_recently_played_folder = true
folders = /mnt/media/Video/Movies, /mnt/media/Video/TV_Shows, /mnt/media/Video/Web_Shows, /mnt/media/Music, /mnt/media/Comedy
folders_monitored =  /mnt/media/Video/Movies, /mnt/media/Video/TV_Shows, /mnt/media/Video/Web_Shows, /mnt/media/Music, /mnt/media/Comedy
web_port = 80
web_conf = /etc/ums/WEB.conf
name = main

Start UMS

1. start UMS by running
```
sudo service ums start
```
2. visit the UMS webpage by going to http://MyMediaServer in a web browser

How to Update to the latest version

Visit https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer/UniversalMediaServer/releases to find the latest version
Navigate to the installation folder by running
```
cd /opt
```

Download the latest tarball by running something like

sudo wget https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer/UniversalMediaServer/releases/download/10.0.0/UMS-10.0.0-arm64.tgz

MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE ABOVE LINE TO THE CORRECT VERSION

Unpack the tarball by running
```
sudo tar -xvzf UMS-*.tgz
```
Stop the ums service by running
```
sudo systemctl stop ums
```
Update the "ums" symlink by running
```
sudo ln -sfn /opt/ums-10.0.0/ ums
```
MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE ABOVE LINE TO THE CORRECT VERSION
Remove the downloaded tarball by running
```
sudo rm UMS-*.tgz
```
Start the ums service by running
```
sudo systemctl start ums
```
Once you're satisfied that your new version works you can, optionally, remove the old version by running something like
```
sudo rm -r ums-9.0.0
```

References

https://www.slsmk.com/how-to-install-universal-media-server-ums-on-ubuntu-in-headless-mode/

How to setup Universal Media Server 8.0.1 under Ubuntu 18.04

Contents

Install UMS

Make UMS Start on Boot

Configure UMS

Start UMS

How to Update to the latest version

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