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MongoDB
Petio supports two ways of connecting to a Mongo Database instance, locally or remote. We recommend the locally hosted MongoDB option.
Macs with the new M1 chip (arm64 arch) do not yet support Mongo locally installed. Please use either Remote MongoDB Hosting or any of the Docker options.
MongoDB Locally
We assume you've installed homebrew in order to follow this guide.
Add the Official MongoDB Repo to homebrew:
brew tap mongodb/brew
Install MongoDB:
brew install [email protected]
Start MongoDB as a service:
brew services start mongodb-community
MongoDB Locally - On A Different Host
Please review the Linux guides and make changes as necessary for your situation.
MongoDB Remotely
Register for Atlas here.
Create a free cluster.
Change the provider or region if you need to. It may take some time to create the cluster.
After the cluster is made, click on connect and select MongoDB Compass and follow the instructions on screen.
Move on to the next section to start installing Petio.
Petio as a Service
First make a directory for Petio:
sudo mkdir /opt/Petio
Download the latest version of Petio:
sudo curl -L https://petio.tv/releases/latest --output petio-latest.zip
Extract Petio to the directory we just made:
sudo unzip petio-latest.zip -d /opt/Petio
Change the permissions so that Petio can work as expected:
sudo chown -R ${USER}:staff /opt/Petio
To have Petio running in the background without user input, we will use launchctl.
To more-or-less control launchddefine a service for Petio like shown below and save it as tv.petio.plist in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>tv.petio</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/opt/Petio/bin/petio-macos</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</plist>
Load the service using:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/tv.petio.plist
Start the service using:
launchctl start tv.petio
Verify that Petio is indeed running:
launchctl list | grep tv.petio
To stop Petio, run:
launchctl stop tv.petio
Once you've completed theses steps, you can navigate to http://<hostname>:7777 to start configuring Petio.
Updating Petio
Stop the Petio service with launchctl.
Navigate to the directory you have Petio installed in, then, download the latest version from the Downloads page with:
curl -L https://petio.tv/releases/latest --output petio-latest.zip
Extract the contents of freshly downloaded archive while overwriting the current contents of the current directory with:
unzip -o petio-latest.zip -d ./
Lastly, start the Petio service back up again with launchctl.

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