👋 Welcome to the official support thread for DiscVault — a self-hosted collection manager for your physical 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD library.

This thread now covers the current DiscVault 26 release. If you're still running the older single-container Legacy release, support for that continues here too — just let us know which version you're on when you post.

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🎬 What is DiscVault?

DiscVault lets you catalog, browse, and manage your physical disc collection from any device — desktop or mobile. Scan a barcode, pull in cover art and metadata, organize box sets and collections, and keep a personal watchlist and watch history. Everything stays self-hosted and under your own control.

✨ What's new in DiscVault 26

DiscVault 26 is a from-the-ground-up foundation for the project. It keeps the same self-hosted, collector-first focus, but modernizes the stack:

• New desktop-first library with poster, list, and detail views

• Richer movie and container detail pages (backdrops, posters, videos, box-set contents)

• PostgreSQL-backed data model, replacing the old SQLite-based Legacy storage

• A plugin runtime for metadata sources, receivers, import sources, and digital media sources

• RBAC, invite-only login, role simulation, and audit views in the admin area

• API access and MCP-ready endpoints for AI assistant integration

• A guided migration assistant that walks you from an existing Legacy install into 26

⚠️ Important for Unraid users: DiscVault 26 runs on the DiscVault Launcher

DiscVault Legacy shipped as a single all-in-one container. DiscVault 26 is a small stack — PostgreSQL, an API service, and a worker — so on Unraid, the DiscVault 26 app installs and runs through the DiscVault Launcher out of the box. You don't need to set this up separately: installing "DiscVault" from Community Apps gives you the Launcher container, and it takes care of the rest.

The Launcher is a small deployment manager that:

• Talks to the Docker socket to spin up and manage the v26 stack (Postgres + API + worker) — or the Legacy single container, if you select that channel instead

• Proxies everything through one stable WebUI port, so your existing port (e.g. 6080) doesn't change

• Handles secrets generation (Postgres password, JWT secret) and keeps them stable across updates

• Watches for new DiscVault image versions and republishes the matching Launcher tag automatically

Launcher repo: https://github.com/helmerzNL/DiscVault-Launcher

Recommended appdata paths when setting it up:

/mnt/user/appdata/discvault            existing data (Legacy SQLite DB, media)
/mnt/user/appdata/discvault-postgres   PostgreSQL data for the v26 stack
/mnt/user/appdata/discvault-launcher   Launcher config and generated secrets

After install, open the WebUI — if you have existing Legacy data, it will prompt you to run the migration assistant at /api/next/migration.

If you only want to keep running the old single-container Legacy release, the Launcher handles that too — it manages Legacy installs (legacy channel) as well as the v26 stack, just running the one container in that case instead of the full stack.

🐳 Images

ghcr.io/helmerzNL/DiscVault:v26       — current DiscVault 26 release
ghcr.io/helmerzNL/DiscVault:legacy    — old single-container Legacy release

Unraid Community Apps template repo: https://github.com/helmerzNL/unraid-templates

🔄 Migrating an existing Legacy install

The built-in migration wizard walks you through it end to end:

1. Confirm your current install — the wizard detects your existing DiscVault data

2. Authenticate with your existing passkey and review what will be migrated

3. Confirm and run the migration, with progress shown until DiscVault 26 is ready

Take a backup before you start. Keep your existing persistent data and volume mappings in place until the migration completes successfully.

🔗 Links

• Website: https://discvault.eu

• Source / GitHub: https://github.com/helmerzNL/DiscVault

• DiscVault Launcher: https://github.com/helmerzNL/DiscVault-Launcher

• Discord: https://discord.gg/jSUfV7PT

• Report an issue: https://github.com/helmerzNL/DiscVault/issues

🙋 Posting for support

To help diagnose issues quickly, please include:

• Whether you're on the v26, v26-beta, or legacy channel

• Your Unraid version

• Container logs for DiscVault and the Launcher

• Steps to reproduce, and what you expected to happen instead

Thanks for using DiscVault — looking forward to your feedback on 26! 🙌

Edited June 18Jun 18 by Helmer

Hi,

installation went fine, thanks for the great script.

I'm stuck at the passkey generation, it tells me that my browser does not support passkeys. Mint/Firefox with bitwarden. I use passkeys for a lot of accounts (amazon, google etc.) so not sure whats the issue.

To make sure i also tried it on the same machine on librewolf as well as my phone with safari, firefox and brave. All show the same error:

i can try other devices when i'm home.

what's the recommended browser to get through this step?

Edited June 18Jun 18 by Icarium
spelling

I've tried Safari on my mac/iPhone/iPad and i've used Edge on Windows and all work fine. Let me see if i can reproduce it. I need to adjust the instructions above, since the new DiscVault 26 version has a little bit of a different approach then the legacy one.

Did you use the

Edited June 18Jun 18 by Helmer

22 minutes ago, Icarium said:

Hi,

installation went fine, thanks for the great script.

I'm stuck at the passkey generation, it tells me that my browser does not support passkeys. Mint/Firefox with bitwarden. I use passkeys for a lot of accounts (amazon, google etc.) so not sure whats the issue.

To make sure i also tried it on the same machine on librewolf as well as my phone with safari, firefox and brave. All show the same error:

i can try other devices when i'm home.

what's the recommended browser to get through this step?

btw, you were not running the 'legacy' version before? Or is this the first install/try?

jup, just found your project by chance today! perhaps its bitwarden as external passkey handler... mmh

i will try it on the macbooks and another thinkpad or the tablet when i'm back home, thanks!

so yes, first install if my previous message wasn't clear (on second reading i could have formulated that better)

ok, i tried it on a lenovo tablet with android and firefox and a m2 macbook with firefox and safari. its the same everywhere.

Edited June 18Jun 18 by Icarium

1 minute ago, Icarium said:

jup, just found your project by chance today! perhaps its bitwarden as external passkey handler... mmh

i will try it on the macbooks and another thinkpad or the tablet when i'm back home, thanks!

No problem :-)

You did use the DiscVault 26 from the Community App Store to get it working, right?

1 hour ago, Icarium said:

ok, i tried it on a lenovo tablet with android and firefox and a m2 macbook with firefox and safari. its the same everywhere.

and what did you enter at the RP_ORIGINS and RP_ID fields?

thank you for your time!

yep - DiscVault 26 directly from the Community App Store.

Unraid 7.2.7

i've put in the ip of the server since its local only:

(port 8038 there and in the webui because the default port was already in use)

mmmh i also tried it with the default localhost but same issue. i plan to use it local only, if i share it than via tailscale.

What should i put in there?

1 hour ago, Icarium said:

thank you for your time!

yep - DiscVault 26 directly from the Community App Store.

Unraid 7.2.7

i've put in the ip of the server since its local only:

(port 8038 there and in the webui because the default port was already in use)

mmmh i also tried it with the default localhost but same issue. i plan to use it local only, if i share it than via tailscale.

What should i put in there?

Please use a fqdn, so for example RP_ID : disc.domain.com and RP_ORIGINS: https://disc.domain.com. That's a requirement for Passkeys, since they are domain-bound. You can obviously use an internal domainname, as long as you use one.

I'll add some error-handling to the wizard, it can be a bit unclear what the issue is.

Edited June 19Jun 19 by Helmer

I've updated the FAQ with an article explaining why it's required and the wizard should now give you an understandable error if you don't have a fqdn setup.

On 6/19/2026 at 7:02 AM, Icarium said:

thank you for your time!

yep - DiscVault 26 directly from the Community App Store.

Unraid 7.2.7

i've put in the ip of the server since its local only:

(port 8038 there and in the webui because the default port was already in use)

mmmh i also tried it with the default localhost but same issue. i plan to use it local only, if i share it than via tailscale.

What should i put in there?

Were you able to get it up and running?

Hi,

sorry for the late reply! I have not since i'm not using a reverse proxy

My Homelab is essentially local only and the hand full of services that i need externally are accessed via tailscale. I'm by far not confident enough in my skills to expose stuff to the wider internet so there was no usecase for a reverse proxy.

I've been looking at guides for reverse proxies since your reply and will have to decide if i have any other usecase for it and if its worth the effort...

i would really like to use your software but the added complexity for getting passkeys to work is a major downside of it to be honest. Your listed features are top notch and would make organizing our collection of ~6.000 Disks far easier but that's where i'm stuck right now.

But thats a problem for me, not for you.

Thanks for your help!

28 minutes ago, Icarium said:

Hi,

sorry for the late reply! I have not since i'm not using a reverse proxy

My Homelab is essentially local only and the hand full of services that i need externally are accessed via tailscale. I'm by far not confident enough in my skills to expose stuff to the wider internet so there was no usecase for a reverse proxy.

I've been looking at guides for reverse proxies since your reply and will have to decide if i have any other usecase for it and if its worth the effort...

i would really like to use your software but the added complexity for getting passkeys to work is a major downside of it to be honest. Your listed features are top notch and would make organizing our collection of ~6.000 Disks far easier but that's where i'm stuck right now.

But thats a problem for me, not for you.

Thanks for your help!

To be honest. What i use for my internal services is NPM Proxy Manager (on my Unraid), for which i have registered a *.local.domain.tld (which only resolves through my internal dns) and that way you can create local (FQDN) domainnames (so no need to access service on IP:port, but a clear https://discvault.local.domain.tld. That works great with Passkeys as well no access from the outside and not resolvable (since port 443 exposed to the outside world) and DNS is not giving any hosts away.

But for this you do need to have a real domainname, that's it.

Edited June 23Jun 23 by Helmer

6 hours ago, Icarium said:

Hi,

sorry for the late reply! I have not since i'm not using a reverse proxy

My Homelab is essentially local only and the hand full of services that i need externally are accessed via tailscale. I'm by far not confident enough in my skills to expose stuff to the wider internet so there was no usecase for a reverse proxy.

I've been looking at guides for reverse proxies since your reply and will have to decide if i have any other usecase for it and if its worth the effort...

i would really like to use your software but the added complexity for getting passkeys to work is a major downside of it to be honest. Your listed features are top notch and would make organizing our collection of ~6.000 Disks far easier but that's where i'm stuck right now.

But thats a problem for me, not for you.

Thanks for your help!

Btw, if you would be able to have your own service accessible from the outside (through a VPN etc). I'm currently in the process of developing an iOS/iPadOS native app. If you have an iPhone, I could add you to Testflight and you would be able to test it out. Although it's a bit rough on the edge still.

puhh so i set up Nginx Proxy Manager following these guides:

Using Nginx Proxy Manager on Unraid

Learn how I use Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) on Unraid to access all my services with a custom domain instead of their IP address

~/.didev

Setting up a local reverse proxy with Nginx Proxy Manager...

This is part 2 on the topic of a short series about setting up DNS hosting with Cloudflare and using DNS-01 challenges to get TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt See part 1: Moving DNS hosting from Na

lets say my domain is mydomain.one with Njalla.

created a cname for *.local.mydomain.one to local.mydomain.one and created a A record for local.mydomain.one to 192.168.1.52 (the ip of my nginx proxy manager in my local network, runs on br0 to have its own ip)

I set up the api on njallas side, used the dns challenge and set up the certificate over npm for *.local.mydomain.one and local.mydomain.one.

created a proxy host for discvault.local.mydomain.one to the ip and port:

Uploading Attachment...

and under ssl put in the certificate for my wildcard

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proxyhost status shows as "online", certificate status shows "in use".

when i click on discvault.local.mydomain.one a new tab opens and everything looks good:

Uploading Attachment...

when i click on "create owner passkey" this shows up:

Uploading Attachment...

what did i do wrong?

Edited June 23Jun 23 by Icarium

8 minutes ago, Icarium said:

puhh so i set up Nginx Proxy Manager following these guides:

Using Nginx Proxy Manager on Unraid

Learn how I use Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) on Unraid to access all my services with a custom domain instead of their IP address

~/.didev

Setting up a local reverse proxy with Nginx Proxy Manager...

This is part 2 on the topic of a short series about setting up DNS hosting with Cloudflare and using DNS-01 challenges to get TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt See part 1: Moving DNS hosting from Na

lets say my domain is mydomain.one with Njalla.

created a cname for *.local.mydomain.one to local.mydomain.one and created a A record for local.mydomain.one to 192.168.1.52 (the ip of my nginx proxy manager in my local network, runs on br0 to have its own ip)

I set up the api on njallas side, used the dns challenge and set up the certificate over npm for *.local.mydomain.one and local.mydomain.one.

created a proxy host for discvault.local.mydomain.one to the ip and port:

Uploading Attachment...

and under ssl put in the certificate for my wildcard

Uploading Attachment...

proxyhost status shows as "online", certificate status shows "in use".

when i click on discvault.local.mydomain.one a new tab opens and everything looks good:

Uploading Attachment...

when i click on "create owner passkey" this shows up:

Uploading Attachment...

what did i do wrong?

What did you fill out here (when you are configuring the app). This is how you should fill them out.

wow i'm stupid!

Thank you for your patience! it worked and i'm now logged in!

i will try out Discvault over the next days :) is it possible to scan barcodes with a handheld barcode scanner? otherwise i would in in the bwoser on my android tablet (login already worked there, too)

i have an iphone but as you have seen i'm a bloody newb.

I can access my network via tailscale so if you have the time we can work out how exactly i would get the app working over vpn.

1 hour ago, Icarium said:

wow i'm stupid!

Thank you for your patience! it worked and i'm now logged in!

i will try out Discvault over the next days :) is it possible to scan barcodes with a handheld barcode scanner? otherwise i would in in the bwoser on my android tablet (login already worked there, too)

i have an iphone but as you have seen i'm a bloody newb.

I can access my network via tailscale so if you have the time we can work out how exactly i would get the app working over vpn.

Oke, if you btw have issues scanning certain (types) of movies, let me know. it's quiet difficult to get access to 'public' API's that allow for barcode readers, so i have something built in works for almost all my movies. But specific (older) DVD's for the Dutch market are not always recognized :-( That's why i also build an metadata search engine that movie data flows back into, so it only has be be contributed once.

Not sure if it works with a barcode reader? It works with the camera of my laptop and the one on my iPHone, but the native iPHone app works best (and the fastest).

Let me know if you want to test that one, and i'll send you the testflight linm

3 hours ago, Icarium said:

wow i'm stupid!

Thank you for your patience! it worked and i'm now logged in!

i will try out Discvault over the next days :) is it possible to scan barcodes with a handheld barcode scanner? otherwise i would in in the bwoser on my android tablet (login already worked there, too)

i have an iphone but as you have seen i'm a bloody newb.

I can access my network via tailscale so if you have the time we can work out how exactly i would get the app working over vpn.

If you could could reach your internal FQDN through the browser on your phone, then the app would also work. It just connects to your FQDN and you authenticate with your Passkey. If you could DM me your Apple ID then I can add you to TestFlight.

Edited June 23Jun 23 by Helmer

Hi, sorry for the long pause - i ordered the before-mentioned usb barcode scanner because while adding movies by camera worked fiddling on the small display of my phone was a bit of a bother.

my tablet on the other hand was a bit unwieldy and is very slow but worked ok when propped up. positioning the hull took a bit of time to get right but biggest downside was the slow speed of the tablet when opening the scanner.

i read some stuff and the scanners work as keyboards out of the box. they are configured by scanning barcodes in their manual so no setup/program required on the machine they are plugged into.

i think i found my workflow :)

clicking into the input field and scanning the dvd works fine but the real strength is in your batch list. scanning 10 dvds in under 15 seconds is easy when the scanner adds the line jump by itself after each scan.

i scanned a bunch of blu-rays by now so a few questions about features:

1. when scanning multiple movies in the batch list you have to click "search" one by one. so far that works but when i decide which version to add it always jumps to the movie in the library and i have to jump back to the import. is there a way to turn that off?

2. also for the next movie i have to look at the code on the hull and click search again - the already added movie stays in the list. would it be possible to make that a better rounded workflow by a) scanning all the codes, then b) working down the list by clicking search on one, adding it, the added barcode gets removed or gets a green check mark, stay on the same side and click the next, add it and so forth? not sure how to do the movie page in batch but perhaps also not sure if that is needed or if people that want to change stuff can just search the movies in the library themselves.

3. the import site is a bit stuffed with the 3/4 methods (camera, search for one movie, batch + import csv) would it be possible to have tabs at the top for each? i don't think i will use the camera but someone that uses the camera won't need the batch option

4. would it be possible to add custom field to movies? i've found tags but we are thinking about putting location stickers or something similar on our movies or putting in the location like shelf 10. i mean we got about 6k movies so adding the place where they are or something to make them easier to find might make sense. we tried doing it by alphabet but then adding new movies is kind of a mess when you have to move a lot of movies if the board is full :P and i would like to add a field for "ripped/not ripped or not set" for example since i tested ripping my movies with makemkv and will start batch-ripping them in the near future. also search for that field would be cool :)

5. i used tags for things like "steelbook" or "extended cut" but would it be possible to add that info in a similar way to the "blu-ray" field on the library page? or have it in any way clickable or searchable on the library page?

6. my "import" field shows a "not required" beside it?

7. when adding a movie it and jumping to the library page it shows me one poster. most often the actual picture of the box. for loading the rest it seems to take some time or needs a refresh (which is fine) but what really irks me is that when i close that movie page and go to the library it changes the poster by itself! is there a way to turn that of? i'm fine with having to change it later but it should not change pictures by itself. especially because its not possible to set the one available picture as primary when it autojumps to the library page after adding the movie. so to fix the picture you have to jump out and back to the movie again anyway.

8. would it be possible to add some kind of marker to 4k uhd discs that they include the normal blu-ray? perhaps with a check-mark? also if thats checked include them in the search for blu-rays?

9. whats the best way for working with boxed sets? for example i have a 007 boxed set that got its own code but is made up from 7 different movies that all have their own code? i wasn't able to find the boxed set with the code or by search. is it possible to add the movies and group them as a boxed set?

10. we also got a bunch of cases with 3 discs with different movies. the case has a code which cant be found. any idea how to add those? it should be similar to a boxed set with adding the 3 discs (but without codes) and grouping them?

11. Plugin MovieVault26 errors out with "Health: connection error - HTTP 200" i had to disable it. neither version 1.5.0 nor 1.5.3 works for me.

That's why i also build an metadata search engine that movie data flows back into, so it only has be be contributed once.

what do you mean by that?

i will gladly help your database by putting in our movie collection :) for reference most: most of our movies are German. a bunch of Swedish ones as well and a few with main language English.

i will try adding series next these days. most stuff i added was for testing, the scanner only arrived yesterday.

Hi, sorry for the long pause - i ordered the before-mentioned usb barcode scanner because while adding movies by camera worked fiddling on the small display of my phone was a bit of a bother.

my tablet on the other hand was a bit unwieldy and is very slow but worked ok when propped up. positioning the hull took a bit of time to get right but biggest downside was the slow speed of the tablet when opening the scanner.

i read some stuff and the scanners work as keyboards out of the box. they are configured by scanning barcodes in their manual so no setup/program required on the machine they are plugged into.

i think i found my workflow :)

clicking into the input field and scanning the dvd works fine but the real strength is in your batch list. scanning 10 dvds in under 15 seconds is easy when the scanner adds the line jump by itself after each scan.

i scanned a bunch of blu-rays by now so a few questions about features:

1. when scanning multiple movies in the batch list you have to click "search" one by one. so far that works but when i decide which version to add it always jumps to the movie in the library and i have to jump back to the import. is there a way to turn that off?

2. also for the next movie i have to look at the code on the hull and click search again - the already added movie stays in the list. would it be possible to make that a better rounded workflow by a) scanning all the codes, then b) working down the list by clicking search on one, adding it, the added barcode gets removed or gets a green check mark, stay on the same side and click the next, add it and so forth? not sure how to do the movie page in batch but perhaps also not sure if that is needed or if people that want to change stuff can just search the movies in the library themselves.

3. the import site is a bit stuffed with the 3/4 methods (camera, search for one movie, batch + import csv) would it be possible to have tabs at the top for each? i don't think i will use the camera but someone that uses the camera won't need the batch option

4. would it be possible to add custom field to movies? i've found tags but we are thinking about putting location stickers or something similar on our movies or putting in the location like shelf 10. i mean we got about 6k movies so adding the place where they are or something to make them easier to find might make sense. we tried doing it by alphabet but then adding new movies is kind of a mess when you have to move a lot of movies if the board is full :P and i would like to add a field for "ripped/not ripped or not set" for example since i tested ripping my movies with makemkv and will start batch-ripping them in the near future. also search for that field would be cool :)

5. i used tags for things like "steelbook" or "extended cut" but would it be possible to add that info in a similar way to the "blu-ray" field on the library page? or have it in any way clickable or searchable on the library page?

6. my "import" field shows a "not required" beside it?

7. when adding a movie it and jumping to the library page it shows me one poster. most often the actual picture of the box. for loading the rest it seems to take some time or needs a refresh (which is fine) but what really irks me is that when i close that movie page and go to the library it changes the poster by itself! is there a way to turn that of? i'm fine with having to change it later but it should not change pictures by itself. especially because its not possible to set the one available picture as primary when it autojumps to the library page after adding the movie. so to fix the picture you have to jump out and back to the movie again anyway.

8. would it be possible to add some kind of marker to 4k uhd discs that they include the normal blu-ray? perhaps with a check-mark? also if thats checked include them in the search for blu-rays?

9. whats the best way for working with boxed sets? for example i have a 007 boxed set that got its own code but is made up from 7 different movies that all have their own code? i wasn't able to find the boxed set with the code or by search. is it possible to add the movies and group them as a boxed set?

10. we also got a bunch of cases with 3 discs with different movies. the case has a code which cant be found. any idea how to add those? it should be similar to a boxed set with adding the 3 discs (but without codes) and grouping them?

11. Plugin MovieVault26 errors out with "Health: connection error - HTTP 200" i had to disable it. neither version 1.5.0 nor 1.5.3 works for me.

what do you mean by that?

i will gladly help your database by putting in our movie collection :) for reference most: most of our movies are German. a bunch of Swedish ones as well and a few with main language English.

i will try adding series next these days. most stuff i added was for testing, the scanner only arrived yesterday.

Hi! Thanks a lot for testing stuff out. I'll need to do some checks and then respond to all the questions. One quick question, which build are you running? You should be able to see it in the Profile -> About page (should be something like 26.x.x) and are you running the beta (v26-beta) or stable (v26) built?

The beta currently has a lot of new features (check the website for the list of new features), you should be able to move between the two without an issue.


Plugin MovieVault26 errors out with "Health: connection error - HTTP 200" i had to disable it. neither version 1.5.0 nor 1.5.3 works for me.

what do you mean by that?

The Movievault plugin is the metadata plugin I developed, which seems to give an issue on your end. There have been some auth-sync changed being made, I don't see any requests coming in from an unknown/new DiscVault instance. I'll do some testing to see what's going on if there is a new DiscVault instance knocking on the door, maybe I did not push out the new stuff the pROD version yet.

Edited Saturday at 10:47 PM1 day by Helmer

You should be running (at least) this version, which should work. If you have deployed the app with the DiscVault launcher, just restart the launcher should update the app to the version mentioned above. If it doesn't work, please let me know and I can help you troubleshoot.

Edited Saturday at 11:01 PM1 day by Helmer

3. the import site is a bit stuffed with the 3/4 methods (camera, search for one movie, batch + import csv) would it be possible to have tabs at the top for each? i don't think i will use the camera but someone that uses the camera won't need the batch option

This issue has been resolved: https://github.com/helmerzNL/DiscVault/issues/112

Edited yesterday at 01:01 AM1 day by Helmer

6. my "import" field shows a "not required" beside it?

This issue also has been resolved: https://github.com/helmerzNL/DiscVault/issues/108

1. also for the next movie i have to look at the code on the hull and click search again - the already added movie stays in the list. would it be possible to make that a better rounded workflow by a) scanning all the codes, then b) working down the list by clicking search on one, adding it, the added barcode gets removed or gets a green check mark, stay on the same side and click the next, add it and so forth? not sure how to do the movie page in batch but perhaps also not sure if that is needed or if people that want to change stuff can just search the movies in the library themselves.

This has also been resolved: https://github.com/helmerzNL/DiscVault/issues/111