Best Self-hosted Media & Smart Home tools in 2026

Open-source PWA that generates live captions and transcripts in the browser; supports broadcasts, OBS/vMix integration, and optional Azure AI captions.

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Rev+6

Downloads music from YouTube and other providers, converts to high-quality MP3 with cover art, and uploads to WebDAV-compatible cloud storage like Nextcloud. Dockerized.

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4K Video Downloader+8

Dockerized app to extract and translate subtitles for movies and TV shows using the DeepL API, with optional Plex integration to refresh libraries.

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Plex

Flox is a Laravel + Vue.js self-hosted watchlist for movies, TV shows and anime with episode tracking, calendar, reminders, Plex sync and ActivityPub federation.

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Simkl

Simple companion web app for book clubs to suggest books, run voting rounds, track reading history, write reviews and integrate with Goodreads.

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Goodreads+5

SoFE parses Anime Filler List data to configure Sonarr to monitor only non-filler anime episodes and creates Plex collections separating filler and non-filler episodes. R...

Light home automation application in Lua with web UI, Blockly scripting, WoT Thing Description API, MQTT and support for ZigBee/Z-Wave/Hue devices.

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Samsung SmartThings+11

Icecast is an open source streaming media server for hosting internet radio and live audio streams using common streaming protocols and formats.

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Live365+5

Self-hosted YouTube-like video sharing app in Go with automatic MP4 (H.264/AAC) transcoding, thumbnail generation, RSS feeds, and file-based libraries (no DB).

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YouTube+9

Rygel is a DLNA/UPnP AV media server and renderer that shares audio, video, and photos to TVs, consoles, and speakers, with optional on-the-fly transcoding.

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Twonky Server+3

LazyLibrarian tracks authors, fetches book metadata, and automates ebook/audiobook downloads via Usenet or torrents, with Calibre integration and an OPDS catalog.

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Readarr

ELEMENT.FM is an open source podcast hosting platform with Podcasting 2.0 support, unlimited shows and episodes, transcripts, team workspaces, analytics, and AI-assisted...

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SoundCloud+10

Open-source image hosting and link-shortening service written in Python; provides uploads, account management, vanity domains, shortlinks and a web UI with Docker deploym...

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Bitly+15

FHEM is a Perl-based open-source home automation server with a modular architecture, web frontends, and broad device protocol support.

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Samsung SmartThings+15

Libre web app to catalog books, create lists, and share libraries using open bibliographic data such as Wikidata and ISBN metadata.

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Goodreads+6

Roon is a music library manager and multi-room audio player that combines local files with streaming services, offers rich metadata, and supports high-resolution playback...

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Plex+12

Self-hosted DVR server for live TV, recording, and streaming to Channels apps from a computer or NAS, with optional hardware transcoding and TV Everywhere support.

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Plex+6

Emby is a personal media server that organizes and streams your movies, TV, music, photos, and home videos to apps, browsers, smart TVs, and DLNA clients.

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Plex+15

Blue Iris is Windows NVR software for managing up to 128 cameras, recording and search, remote web/mobile viewing, motion/audio alerts, and optional built-in AI detection...

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Synology Surveillance Station+6

Self-hosted NVR for IP cameras with low-latency live view, continuous recording, and TensorFlow Lite object detection via a mobile-friendly web UI.

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Blue Iris+7

Self-hosted music download manager that fetches Spotify content and falls back to Deezer for lossless sources; FastAPI backend, Celery tasks and Redis caching.

Self-hosted CCTV/NVR software for recording, viewing, and managing IP camera streams with a web UI, real-time events, and flexible deployment from edge to enterprise.

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Blue Iris+10

Self-hosted, open-source podcast hosting and publishing server built with Rust and Axum. Provides multi-tenant sites, RSS feeds, analytics, scheduling and optional S3 med...

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SoundCloud+11

Plex Media Server lets you organize, stream, and access your personal movies, TV, music, and photos across devices, with rich metadata and client apps.

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Emby Premiere (Emby Media Server Cloud Features)+6

ComicOPDS is a lightweight OPDS 1.2 server for serving CBZ comics with ComicInfo.xml metadata, fast SQLite FTS5 search, thumbnails, and page streaming.

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Comixology+4

Self-hosted personal cloud platform that aggregates data from connected services, stores files, and provides apps for drive, photos, and personal data management.

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Google Drive+17

Self-hosted collaborative music room app with DJ queues, real-time chat, and YouTube/SoundCloud-style playback for shared listening sessions.

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Turntable.fm+3

GNU MediaGoblin is a self-hostable media publishing platform for sharing photos, video, and other media types, designed as a decentralized alternative to proprietary serv...

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Flickr+14

Self-hosted, federated audio platform to upload, organize, stream, and share music and podcasts across instances via ActivityPub.

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SoundCloud+17

Self-hosted workflow automation for media and file libraries—watch folders, run FFmpeg/metadata steps, and route outputs with a visual flow builder.

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FileFlows Cloud+8