Dispatcharr is a self-hosted IPTV stream proxy, electronic program guide manager, and DVR server that consolidates multiple M3U playlists and Xtream Codes providers into a unified live television and video-on-demand hub. Through its web dashboard, you can import and filter thousands of channels from unlimited upstream sources, automatically match XMLTV or Schedules Direct guide data to your lineup, and organize movies and series enriched with IMDb and TMDB metadata. The proxy streaming engine shares a single upstream provider connection across multiple local clients, switches seamlessly to backup stream URLs when buffering or drops occur, and routes backend traffic through FFmpeg, VLC, or Streamlink profiles with custom fMP4 or MPEG-TS output transcoding. To integrate with home media servers, Dispatcharr exports curated lineups as M3U playlists, XMLTV feeds, Xtream Codes API endpoints, or emulated HDHomeRun network tuners that Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Channels DVR discover automatically, while also offering a built-in DVR with series recording rules, Comskip commercial stripping, and timeshift catch-up playback. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Your IPTV provider's login should never be typed into six televisions. IPTV Proxy is an open-source reverse proxy that takes an M3U/M3U8 playlist or an Xtream Codes account and re-serves every channel, movie, series, and guide from your own address, under a username and password you choose. Players like TiviMate, IPTV Smarters, VLC, and Kodi talk only to the proxy, so the provider's real URL and credentials stay hidden on one machine, and when the provider changes its address, your household devices keep pointing at the same stable endpoint behind your domain, HTTPS, or VPN. Each viewer can receive their own proxy account with a connection limit, regex filters trim channel lists down to what a household actually watches, playlist refreshes happen automatically, and a read-only status page shows who is watching what right now. Media servers join in too: the proxy presents live channels as an HDHomeRun network tuner, so Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Channels DVR record and time-shift them with guide data included. There is no database and no admin panel to secure; one small binary or container, configured by flags, is the whole deployment. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

neTV turns any Xtream Codes or M3U IPTV subscription into a clean, fast player that you host yourself and open from a browser, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, or Chromecast. The EPG grid guide shows what is on now and next, and catchup lets you browse earlier listings, replay a program from the beginning, or start over a show already airing, with timeline seeking whenever your provider keeps an archive. Intelligent Handoff lets you switch off the living room TV mid-match and resume on your phone from the exact moment you stopped, because the server keeps the stream going until the program ends. Movies and series arrive with metadata, seasons, episodes, and resume points, while search accepts regular expressions and favorites support drag-and-drop ordering alongside playlists that you build on the web and see in every app. Smart passthrough remuxes h264 and AAC streams without re-encoding, and NVENC or VAAPI hardware transcoding serves low-latency HLS to clients that need it. Owners of an NVIDIA GPU can switch on real-time 4K AI upscaling that lifts 1080p channels above 70 frames per second on an RTX 5090. A separate gateway port exposes your live sources as an Xtream-compatible endpoint for other native players, with per-user source access and stream limits. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

M3U Studio turns a tangled IPTV playlist into a tidy, published subscription you would actually hand to your player. Import channels from an M3U or TXT file, pasted text, or a remote link, then organize them properly: drag single channels or whole multi-selections into new groups, rename, reorder, and watch the list reshape itself as you work. Nothing goes live until you say so. Edits accumulate in a draft with undo and redo, and publishing keeps the last 30 configurations so a bad change rolls back in seconds. Channel logos stop being a scavenger hunt, because a unified logo library matches artwork automatically by name and alias, with search and batch upload when you bring your own. Select a pile of channels and fix them together: replace URL text, change groups, set EPG addresses, or move copies into another playlist, then run response checks to spot dead streams before your player does. Each playlist publishes as its own M3U or TXT subscription, or merged into a combined feed, under a custom short address that is easy to type into a TV box. Per-channel EPG, catch-up, and fast channel change settings travel with the export. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Denpa is a home TV recording server that turns a Linux machine and a TV tuner into a private recorder for Japanese terrestrial and satellite broadcasts, with reservations and browser playback. There are no configuration files: plug in a supported tuner and card reader, press scan, and the tuner type, channels, and program guide set themselves up. Reserve from the guide, or save a search as a rule and matching broadcasts record automatically; a repeated episode is ignored after its first airing is captured. Recordings encode to AV1 or H.264 MKV files (H.265 when a GPU is present) with captions exactly as broadcast, and detected commercials become chapters that playback skips entirely. Playback resumes where you stopped, runs at up to double speed, and clips save on the server with captions intact; programs also download to devices for offline viewing. Live viewing runs about a second behind the broadcast: pausing starts chase playback, alternate audio stays selectable, and BML data broadcasting works in the browser. The companion denpa-tv app reaches Android TV and Fire TV through QR pairing, and an API exposes channels, recordings, and audio-only feeds to Home Assistant and scripts. EPGStation and EDCB users can import rules, reservations, and recordings, and the interface stays closed until you open it to trusted networks or protect it with OIDC login. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Friday night, 1994: you are standing in the Action aisle deciding what the weekend looks like, except the shelves are stocked with your own library and the store lives in your browser. Halcyon Video rebuilds that ritual in 3D around your Jellyfin, Plex, or Emby server, turning libraries into aisles and genres into signed sections you can walk. Pick a case off the shelf and it comes up in your hand at true rental proportions; flip it over for the synopsis, cast, runtime, ratings, and a technical table read from the actual file. Seasons arrive as box sets, popular titles sit deeper on the shelf, and the clerk behind the counter searches by title, director, or genre and recommends from your catalog and watch history. Carry an armful to the checkout and she bags them in plastic that folds around the cases, receipt and all. A RomM connection opens a games department with platform-correct cartons and clamshells, while Jellyseerr requests appear as discovery cases you can order in-store. Drive it from the couch with a TV remote, gamepad, keyboard, or phone, or let attract mode tour the floor past the ceiling CRTs. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Point Emby at your movie, music, and photo libraries and it becomes a private streaming service: metadata and artwork arrive from TMDB and TVDB, everything lands in a polished browsable interface, and media transcodes on the fly whenever a client can't play the original format. The client reach is the selling point: native apps span Android TV, Apple TV, Google TV, Fire TV, Roku, LG and Samsung smart TVs, iOS, Android, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, plus web browsers and desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and DLNA devices are auto-detected for casting and remote control. Multi-user support gives each household member their own account, watch history, favorites, and recommendations, with genuinely capable parental controls: content restrictions, access schedules, time limits, and live monitoring with remote control of kids' sessions. Live TV works with hardware tuners like HDHomeRun or M3U playlists, with free guide data in the US, Canada, and UK. The server and core features are free; an optional Premiere key adds hardware-accelerated transcoding, DVR recording, offline sync, and Cinema Mode intros.

Browse trending titles, search anything, request it in two clicks: Jellyseerr gives Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex users a beautiful storefront for the media library. Born as the Overseerr fork that added Jellyfin and Emby support (the projects have since unified as Seerr), it handles the full request lifecycle - users authenticate with their existing media-server accounts, pick individual seasons or movies in a clean interface, and admins approve or decline from a simple queue, including on mobile. Approved requests flow straight to Sonarr and Radarr, which handle acquisition automatically, with support for separate 4K server instances. Regular library scans keep availability accurate, so users see instantly what already exists instead of requesting duplicates. A granular permission system controls who can request what - auto-approval for trusted users, quotas and limits elsewhere - and override rules adjust request routing by user, tag, or other conditions. Watchlist and blocklist functions curate discovery, notifications reach email, Discord, Telegram, Slack, Pushover, and Pushbullet, and both PostgreSQL and SQLite are supported. Localized into many languages, it turns "can you add this movie?" texts into a self-service system that runs itself.

Your house already has lights, locks, sensors, thermostats, and speakers from many brands, and Home Assistant gives them one local control room with no vendor cloud in the loop. To close the shutters when the outdoor temperature holds above 25 °C, or to be alerted when the garage door is left open, build the routine in the visual editor: When, And if, Then do. Scenes, scripts, and blueprints package it for reuse, and run traces show what it did. More than 1,500 integrations cover Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread, MQTT, ESPHome, Bluetooth, Hue, and Sonos, and network discovery offers known devices for one-step setup. To see the house at a glance, drag tile, thermostat, gauge, graph, and map cards into a dashboard, then put it on a TV with Home Assistant Cast. The Energy dashboard answers where the power goes, drawing solar, grid, battery, gas, and water as one distribution diagram with cost totals and per-appliance tracking. To talk to the house, use Assist: natural-language commands, wake words, and custom sentences run locally or through Home Assistant Cloud. The map panel shows who is home, plotting people against zones such as Home, Work, and School from the iOS and Android companion apps. Areas and labels keep large setups tidy, and multi-factor authentication guards each account. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Domoticz takes charge of lights, switches, sensors, and meters around the house from hardware in your own home, with no cloud account, subscription, or internet connection needed to switch on a lamp. Connect the gear you already own: Z-Wave and Zigbee sticks, RFXCOM transceivers, Philips Hue bridges, P1 smart meters, 1-Wire sensors, and MQTT devices are among the 150-plus supported hardware families, and new sensors and switches can teach themselves to the system. The web dashboard arranges favourite devices on one screen, floorplans place controls on a plan of your rooms, and switches, scenes, temperature, weather, and utility pages keep every reading a tap away. Automate with schedules, sensor triggers, or scripts: visual Blockly blocks for quick rules, dzVents and Lua for richer logic, and Python when you need it. The energy dashboard draws live flows between solar panels, grid, battery, and home, and long-term charts track temperature, rainfall, and consumption. Push notifications reach your phone when a door opens or a meter spikes, and selected devices can be shared with other Domoticz installs. It runs happily on a Raspberry Pi Zero, an old laptop, or a proper server, with the same interface on desktop and mobile. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Over 400 technologies and thousands of smart devices from any manufacturer, unified under one roof: openHAB is the vendor-neutral home automation platform with a pluggable binding architecture. Each binding translates a device or service into openHAB's clean abstraction: Things expose Channels, Channels link to Items, and Items feed a rules engine that runs your home. That engine meets you at your skill level: Blockly gives non-programmers drag-and-drop visual logic, JS Scripting (GraalJS with the openhab-js library) is the modern text-based standard, the classic Rules DSL remains supported, and JSR223 opens the door to Python, Ruby, and Groovy. Time- and event-based triggers, scripts, notifications, and voice control compose into automations of any complexity, and users report decade-old rule sets still running rock solid. The Main UI handles configuration, semantic modeling, and now built-in charting - no external Grafana required. Built in Java on Apache Karaf's OSGi runtime and stewarded by the non-profit openHAB Foundation, it requires no cloud to function: everything runs locally, talking directly to your devices. Optional connectors bridge to Alexa, Google Assistant, and HomeKit, with iOS, Android, and web apps for control from anywhere.

WebThings Gateway is a self-hosted smart home hub that puts monitoring and control of your whole house in one private web interface, with no vendor cloud in the middle. Lights, plugs, locks, thermostats, and sensors appear as live Things you can watch and operate from any browser, at home or remotely through your own server. Devices from different ecosystems meet here: adapter add-ons bridge a wide range of protocols into a standardized Web of Things API, so gear that never spoke the same language shares one dashboard. A drag and drop rules editor automates the house with if-this-then-that logic, turning motion into light, schedules into climate, and events into actions without code. Sensor history is logged and visualized over time, which makes energy use, temperature drift, and occupancy patterns visible instead of guessed. An interactive floorplan lays devices out on a plan of your home for at-a-glance status and control room by room. Add-ons extend compatibility with more devices and protocols as your setup grows, and everything runs locally, so the house keeps working on your terms and your data stays in the building. It installs from a Docker image and serves its interface over the web from your own hardware. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Mozilla Public License 2.0 licensed.

Every screen in the house (browser, TV, game console, or phone) can open the same library of videos, music, and photos once Universal Media Server shares it, with transcoding handled automatically for whichever device asks. A file the device can already play passes through untouched. Anything else is converted on the fly to suit the network, the device, and the preferred language. Folders open at once, with no wait for library scans, and disc drives and disc images play directly. In the web interface, every title gets a page with cover art, cast, and genre details from TMDB, Discogs, and MusicBrainz, and filters narrow the library by actor, director, genre, year, or artist. YouTube channels, online radio, podcasts, and RSS feeds appear beside local files on every connected device. Users and groups, with optional avatars and four-digit PINs, decide which shared folders each person sees; content for children stays apart from the library for adults. A list of detected renderers shows every connected device, and the configuration file of each device can be edited to fix browsing, playback, or transcoding on an unsupported TV. Builds exist for Windows, Linux, and macOS, with AppImage and Docker options for servers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Movies, music, and photos stored on your server become a streaming library your television, game console, and phone can browse and play across the home network with Gerbera. Point it at your movie, music, and photo directories and it builds a searchable database, extracting titles, artists, albums, and cover art from the files themselves. The web interface shows the library as a tree of containers and items, where you add directories, edit entries, and reorganise how content is presented to devices. Automatic rescans watch your folders on a timer or through filesystem notifications, so new episodes and albums appear without manual imports. When a device cannot play a format, transcoding plugins convert the stream on the fly into something it accepts. Video files get thumbnails generated automatically, and external URLs can be added as virtual items that renderers play like local media. Different devices see the same library through layouts you define from the extracted metadata, grouped by artist, genre, year, or folder structure. A clients view lists the renderers that connect, and the configuration view edits the server setup from the browser instead of XML files. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPLv2 licensed.

Feed one camera, encoder, or file into MistServer and it republishes the same media in the formats your audience actually uses: HLS for phones, DASH for browsers, WebRTC for sub second playback, and RTMP or SRT for the next service in the chain. Publish from OBS over RTMP, SRT, or WHIP, then hand viewers a Meta Player embed that picks a working protocol on its own. Records run straight to disk for later on demand viewing, and push support relays finished streams to external platforms. Processes can repackage, encode, compose, or analyze media between ingest and delivery. A JSON API on the controller port covers configuration and status, stream keys authenticate incoming publishers, and triggers fire your own endpoints on stream events. Operational metrics export to Prometheus for retention and alerting. Access control rules and HTTPS support protect interfaces and media endpoints. File libraries become on demand catalogs with the same delivery rules as live channels. Every input, output, and process ships as a separate small binary, so an installation keeps only the protocol modules it actually serves, and analysers inspect media properties when a stream misbehaves. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Unlicense licensed.

MediaMTX sits between cameras and viewers as a self-hosted live media server, taking in video and audio streams over one protocol and handing them back out over another, so one IP camera feed can end up playing in a browser, a phone app, and a recording archive simultaneously. Publish with FFmpeg, GStreamer, OBS Studio, a browser, or a Raspberry Pi camera over RTSP, RTMP, SRT, WebRTC, Media-over-QUIC, HLS, MPEG-TS, or RTP, and read it back on any other protocol without a transcoding pipeline. Run dozens of camera feeds side by side, each on its own path, and keep every path available even while its publisher is offline. Record everything to disk in fMP4 or MPEG-TS as it streams, then play recordings back later through the same server instead of shipping files around. Authenticate publishers and viewers with built-in users, an external HTTP check, or JWT, and use the control API plus Prometheus metrics to wire the server into the rest of your monitoring stack. Forward streams to other servers, proxy cameras behind NAT, and fire hook commands whenever a client connects, publishes, or disconnects, so a doorbell camera can trigger a snapshot or an alert as it starts streaming. Reload the configuration while clients stay connected, and tune everything from the same mediamtx.yml file or environment variables, with no database or runtime dependencies to babysit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

OvenMediaEngine ingests a broadcast feed once and delivers it to every viewer with sub-second delay over WebRTC and Low Latency HLS. Encoders push through WebRTC with WHIP, SRT, RTMP, or MPEG-2 TS, and the server can also pull RTSP sources and schedule pre-recorded files as live channels. The embedded transcoder converts incoming video to adaptive bitrate ladders in VP8, H.264, H.265, or AV1, so phones on weak signals and televisions on fiber each receive a rendition they can play. WebRTC delivery runs through an embedded signalling server and TURN server, with retransmission and forward error correction keeping pictures intact on imperfect networks. LLHLS streams carry DVR rewind, WebVTT subtitles, timed metadata, and DRM through Widevine, FairPlay, and PlayReady. Recordings dump finished streams to files for video on demand, thumbnails capture stills, and push publishing re-streams to other platforms over RTMP and SRT. Origin-edge clustering spreads a popular event across many servers, admission webhooks and signed policies control who may publish and watch, and a REST API plus monitoring endpoints keep the whole service observable. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Plex's own dashboard shows current streams and forgets everything else - which is why every Plex server admin eventually installs Tautulli, the analytics layer. This Python web application (descended from PlexWatch and Headphones) logs complete watch history - what was watched, who watched it, when, where, from which device and IP, and whether it played directly or transcoded - and turns it into clean Highcharts graphs of daily plays, concurrent streams, bandwidth, and platform breakdowns. The home page surfaces top statistics over configurable windows: most-watched content, most active users, stream type ratios. For running a server shared with family and friends, this is operational truth: spot the user forcing 4K transcodes on a phone, see which libraries earn their disk space, and track sync activity across users. The notification engine triggers on server events - playback starts, transcode decision changes, recently added media, server down - through dozens of agents (Discord, Telegram, Slack, email, webhooks) with fully customizable text and conditions, plus arbitrary script execution. Scheduled newsletters email your users a styled digest of recently added content. A comprehensive API exposes every statistic for dashboards like Homarr, and an official mobile app monitors activity on the go. Themed to match Plex/Web. GPL-licensed.