How to Install Medusa on Your Synology NAS with Docker

Last updated on January 6th, 2023 at 09:17 pm

Medusa is an automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favourite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic: automatic torrent/nzb searching, downloading, and processing at the qualities you want.

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Features

• Integrated: Can notify Kodi, XBMC, Growl, Trakt, Twitter, WDTV and more when new episodes are available.
• Animated: Anime is supported.
• Subtitles: Automatic subtitle matching and downloads from Addic7ed, OpenSubtitles, Podnapisi, TVSubtitles and more.
• Torrents: Lots of providers supported: TPB, RARBG, IPTorrents, T411 and many more.
• Usenet: In addition to torrent trackers, Medusa also supports usenet: NZBs, BinSearch, Usenet-Crawler and many more are available.

Step 1

Before we start, please ensure you have Docker installed. This can be installed through the Synology Package Center.

Step 2

We now need to create the Docker folder. Head into File Station and open the Docker folder. Select Create, choose Create folder and name it medusa.

Step 3

We will now head into Control Panel > Task Scheduler > Create > Scheduled Task and click User-defined script. (see demonstration)

Step 4

In the window that appears, insert the following:

In the General tab, In the Task field, enter Medusa. From the User list, select root. Uncheck the Enabled option.

In the Schedule tab, Select Run on the following date (make sure It’s today’s date). Now select Do not repeat.

In the Task Settings tab, under Notification, You can choose to turn this on, otherwise skip this. Now copy-paste the following code into the Run command area. Now click OK.

docker run -d \
  --name=medusa \
  -e PUID=1026 \
  -e PGID=100 \
  -e TZ=Europe/London \
  -p 8081:8081 \
  -v /volume1/docker/medusa:/config \
  -v /volume1/data/downloads:/downloads \
  -v /volume1/data/media/tv:/tv \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  lscr.io/linuxserver/medusa

Important: Remember to update the PUID, PGID, TZ and Directory values to match your own.

Step 5

When the below warning appears, press OK.

Step 6

You will now see your list of tasks. Select Medusa, now press Run.

Step 7

When asked to run, press Yes.

Step 8

The installation process has now finished. Give it a few seconds to appear in your Docker list.

Step 9

Open your browser and enter the link to your new container http://synologyip:8081.

Docker Compose and Portainer

If you would prefer to install with Docker Compose or Portainer, use the following code. You can also view a demonstration here.

version: '3.3'
services:
    linuxserver:
        container_name: medusa
        environment:
            - PUID=1026
            - PGID=100
            - TZ=Europe/London
        ports:
            - '8081:8081'
        volumes:
            - '/volume1/docker/medusa:/config'
            - '/volume1/data/downloads:/downloads'
            - '/volume1/data/media/tv:/tv'
        restart: unless-stopped
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/medusa

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