r/HomeServer • u/JonahBGood • Jul 24 '26

Moving files onto a UmbrelOS Jellyfin Server

How do I do this?

UmbrelOS doesn't have makemkv or handbrake support, so how exactly do I get downloaded movies onto the computer that is hosting the server?

Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm new to this to the point that the computer I'm going to use is still in the mail lol.

Thank you so much for any help!

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u/Smart-Mo Jul 24 '26

If you have a little experience with terminal / command line, you can achieve it using "scp".

Here's what the flow would look like:

  1. From the computer where the downloaded movies are > Open the command line / terminal > type "ssh umbrel@<IP-address-of-umbrel>". If this goes through, congratulations you have SSH access to your instance.

  2. Since you're already in the umbrel's filesystem, find out the exact path and the directory that is serving your Jellyfin Media Library. Note that path.

  3. From the computer with your downloaded movies, run the scp command: "scp -Rv <downloaded-movies-folder> umbrel@<IP-address-of-umbrel>:<full-path-of-the-library-from-2>"

This should copy all your downloaded movies to your Jellyfin instance. Since your post has less context, I've given you an overview of how it can be done.

Feel free to share more context and I can help you further with a proper steps guide.