First Time Build - babsonnexus/stream-link-manager-for-channels GitHub Wiki

  1. The first time you start Streaming Library Manager, it may take a couple of minutes before it is available. This is due to it running many activities during initial setup that are not repeated. In later startups, it should be just a few seconds depending upon system performance and internet speeds. If you watch the logs or are in an interactive window, you may see something like this:

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While the Initialization process attempts to find all the necessary values—even noting when it has to use a substitute value—do not worry if any of the searches faulter. There are various levels of safety checks and automatic timeouts that will move the process along. More so, you can always make adjustments in the Settings later. To be clear, any "error" or the like shown are not failures and are expected behavior. Everything directly related to Streaming Library Manager is managed from the Settings area as discussed below.

Also worth highlighting: if you are using Docker, you may still see it says it starts on port 5000. There are no concerns about this as it is being mapped correctly so long as you gave a port value.

  1. With the startup complete, you can navigate to the webpage:
http://localhost:[YOUR_PORT_HERE]

i.e.,

Default...
http://localhost:5000

Example Mapped...
http://localhost:7900

If you are on a different machine than where Streaming Library Manager is installed, you will need to use the name or IP Address of that machine in place of localhost and make sure the port is open (as discussed in the installation directions) to be accessed. It is also important to note that you should use http:// and not https:// as the latter may cause the webpage to not be able to load.

  1. Once at the location, you should see the homepage:

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  1. After this, the program is ready to use!