Best Self-hosted Media & Smart Home tools in 2026

Piped is a privacy-friendly, lightweight alternative YouTube frontend with feeds, playlists, SponsorBlock support, and a public JSON API for apps and integrations.

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YouTube+1

Self-hosted web UI to control, monitor, and manage consumer 3D printers, with webcam viewing, G-code visualization, and an extensive plugin system.

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Obico Cloud (formerly The Spaghetti Detective)

Mopidy is an extensible Python music server that plays local files and radio streams, and can add streaming service backends via extensions with MPD and web clients.

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+8

Self-hosted ROM manager that scans, enriches, and organizes game collections, with metadata, artwork, tags, and optional in-browser playback.

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo and video management service with timeline views, metadata search, and machine-learning features like face recognition and semantic ima...

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Google Photos+9

Open-source Tesla telemetry logger that records driving, charging and location data to PostgreSQL and provides Grafana dashboards plus MQTT integration.

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TeslaFi+2

Tube Archivist is a self-hosted YouTube media server to download, index, search, and watch your archived videos with subscriptions and watch status tracking.

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YouTube+6

Snapcast is a client-server system for perfectly synchronized multiroom audio playback, turning existing audio players into a Sonos-like whole-home streaming setup.

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Sonos+3

Open-source GPS tracking platform supporting 200+ device protocols, real-time tracking, alerts, reports, REST API and web/mobile apps for fleet and asset monitoring.

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Wialon+8

Pixelfed is a free, open-source, ActivityPub-based photo sharing social network that federates with the Fediverse for decentralized social media.

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Instagram+7

Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery that scans your filesystem into albums, generates fast thumbnails, supports RAW/EXIF, and enables multi-user sharing links.

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Google Photos+14

Open-source EV charge controller that optimizes vehicle charging with PV, batteries and dynamic tariffs; supports many chargers, vehicles and smart-home integrations.

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Arduino IoT Cloud+15

Self-hosted media server to organize and read comics and manga, with a web reader, REST API, OPDS catalogs, and eReader sync (Kobo, KOReader).

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Amazon Kindle+7

ZoneMinder is a free, open-source video surveillance system for Linux that captures, analyzes, records, and monitors cameras via a web interface.

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Blue Iris+10

Open-source video integration and NVR platform that ingests camera streams and rebroadcasts them to HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, Home Assistant and web clients via plugin...

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Blue Iris+10

Open-source, cross-platform Qt e-reader and library manager with cloud sync, highlighting, an in-app bookstore, AI-assisted lookups, and support for common formats.

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Adobe Digital Editions+4

UpSnap is a simple Wake-on-LAN web app with a device dashboard, scheduling via cron, port checks, and optional network discovery for managing machines on a LAN.

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IFTTT+3

Self-hosted music collection manager that monitors artists, grabs releases from Usenet/torrents, and automatically imports, renames, and upgrades your library.

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Lidarr

An enhanced Calibre-Web fork that automates eBook ingest, conversion, metadata/cover enforcement, backups, and device sync for a streamlined digital library workflow.

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Amazon Kindle+7

Self-hosted live streaming server to ingest RTMP/SRT/RTSP, transcode with FFmpeg, and restream to platforms like YouTube Live and Twitch with an easy web UI.

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Restream+8

Modern open source video and media CMS for hosting, organizing, and streaming video, audio, images, and PDFs with RBAC and a REST API.

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Vimeo+9

Cross-platform terminal music player with library indexing and a built-in streaming server for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi.

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JRiver Media Center+7

Self-hosted YouTube media manager that automates downloads from channels and playlists using rules, storing files on disk for Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi or archiving.

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iTubeGo+2

Open source Google Drive-like cloud storage with uploads, sharing, media gallery, and optional AES-256 encryption, backed by MongoDB and pluggable storage.

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Google Drive+16

Open-source Ruby on Rails music streaming server that indexes a local music directory, provides web and mobile players, playlists, multi-user accounts, and Docker deploym...

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Plex+12

Lychee is a self-hosted photo management system to upload, organize, view, and share photos and albums with a modern web interface.

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Lychee Cloud+14

Dim is a self-hosted media manager that indexes, organizes, and beautifies your media libraries with a modern web UI for browsing and playback.

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Plex+6

Ombi lets Plex, Emby and Jellyfin users request movies, TV shows and music, integrates with Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr and automates request delivery and notifications.

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Ombi (Hosted)+2

Self-hosted distributed transcoding and remux automation for media libraries using FFmpeg or HandBrake, with health checks, scheduling, and plugin-based processing rules.

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Encoding.com+2

Bazarr is a Sonarr/Radarr companion that automatically searches, downloads, and upgrades subtitles for your movies and TV shows based on per-title language preferences.

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Plex+1