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kstack: book: Centerpoint Home Lab chapter: Media Management page: Dispatcharr tags: [dispatcharr, iptv, m3u, media-management]

Overview

Dispatcharr is an IPTV playlist and stream management tool. It organises M3U channel lists, manages IPTV stream sources, and acts as a companion to Threadfin — providing a more structured interface for managing channel groups, EPG mappings, and stream prioritisation before they are published to Plex and Jellyfin via Threadfin.

Dispatcharr runs in all-in-one (aio) mode, bundling its application server, Celery task worker, and Redis instance into a single container.

Access

Type URL Notes
Internal https://dispatcharr.home.local LAN access via Step-CA TLS

No external route — internal management only.

Configuration

Image: ghcr.io/dispatcharr/dispatcharr:latest Compose project: arr stack

Traefik Labels

traefik.enable: "true"
traefik.http.routers.dispatcharr.rule: Host(`dispatcharr.home.local`)
traefik.http.routers.dispatcharr.entrypoints: websecure
traefik.http.routers.dispatcharr.tls.certresolver: step-ca
traefik.http.services.dispatcharr.loadbalancer.server.port: 9191

Key Environment Variables

Variable Value Purpose
DISPATCHARR_ENV aio All-in-one mode (app + worker + Redis)
DISPATCHARR_LOG_LEVEL info Logging verbosity
REDIS_HOST localhost Internal Redis (bundled in AIO mode)
CELERY_BROKER_URL redis://localhost:6379/0 Celery task queue

Volumes / Bind Mounts

Host Path Container Path Purpose
/home/jeeves/docker/arr/dispatcharr/data /data Dispatcharr database and config

Notes / Gotchas

  • In aio mode, Redis runs inside the container and does not persist state between restarts beyond what is stored in the /data bind mount. Task queue state is lost on container restart.
  • Dispatcharr integrates with Threadfin as the downstream consumer of its managed M3U playlists. Configure the Dispatcharr output URL in Threadfin as the M3U source.
  • ghcr.io/dispatcharr/dispatcharr:latest is an actively developed project — check release notes before pulling updates as breaking changes may affect the channel database schema.

Last Updated: 2026-06-16

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