Installing Locast2Plex on Ubuntu 18.04

[rschricker]

Now that Locast is available in my local area, I built a Linux server to run as a Docker host. Alas, I couldn't get the stream from Plex to work but it worked after changing it to a service.

After installing FFMPG package, following the setup directions, I found the locast2plex.service file incorrectly configured for Ubuntu. A few changes and I got it working. (Ubuntu uses /bin for chown, mkdir, and kill) See below for my configuration.

[Unit]
Description=locast2plex background service
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/locast2plex
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/touch /var/log/locast2plex.log
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown locast2plex:locast2plex /var/log/locast2plex.log
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/locast2plex
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R locast2plex:locast2plex /var/run/locast2plex
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/daemonize -u locast2plex -c /opt/locast2plex -a -o /var/log/locast2plex.log -e /var/log/locast2plex.log -p /var/run/locast2plex/locast2plex.pid -l /var/run/locast2plex/locast2plex.lock /usr/bin/python3 main.py
ExecStop=/bin/kill $(echo /var/run/locast2plex.pid)
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I extracted the locast2plex files in to the /opt/locast2plex directory I created and set appropriate permissions for the user 'locast2plex' as referenced.

Service restarted even after reboot.