Operations Guide

Deploy, configure, and maintain OpenWatchParty.

Install and configure

• Guided setup with owpctl - Install, pair authentication keys, diagnose and maintain a managed deployment
• Installation - Manual plugin and session-server installation
• Compatibility matrix - Current Jellyfin plugin targets and tested versions
• Configuration - Plugin settings, JWT modes, and server options

Operate and update

• Deployment - Reverse proxy, health checks, backups and upgrade procedure
• Security - Authentication, limits, advisories and key rotation
• Monitoring - Readiness, Prometheus metrics and measured capacity
• Troubleshooting - Diagnose connection, auth, queue and sync problems
• Plugin updates - Update policy, verification and rollback

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Table of contents

• Installation
• Guided Setup and owpctl
• Compatibility Matrix
• Configuration
• Deployment
• Security
• Troubleshooting
• Monitoring
• Plugin Updates