Media & Smart Home

A self-hosted photos and videos platform for automatic mobile backup, fast browsing, and AI-powered search, with sharing and albums similar to Google Photos.

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Google Photos+2

Open-source smart home platform that integrates thousands of devices, runs local automations, and provides dashboards, mobile apps, and voice control.

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IFTTT+3

Self-hosted media server to organize, stream, and transcode your movies, TV, music, and photos across apps and devices.

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Plex+1

A lightweight, portable web-based file server with uploads, WebDAV, search, and optional media indexing—designed to run anywhere with minimal dependencies.

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Dropbox+7

Self-hosted photo management and gallery app with AI search, automatic organization, and multi-user support for large photo and video libraries.

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Google Photos+3

Sunshine is a self-hosted game/desktop streaming server that works with Moonlight clients, enabling low-latency remote play with hardware-accelerated encoding.

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Plex+4

Self-hosted NVR that uses real-time object detection (TensorRT/Coral/CPU) with camera restreaming, recording, snapshots, a web UI, and strong Home Assistant integration.

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Plex+8

Low-code, flow-based tool to wire devices, APIs, and services using a browser editor and Node.js runtime; widely used for IoT, automation, and integrations.

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IFTTT+5

Invidious is an alternative YouTube web front-end that reduces tracking and improves performance, offering RSS feeds, subscriptions, and video playback without a Google account.

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YouTube+1

Koel is a self-hosted music streaming server that scans your audio library and provides a sleek web player with playlists, search, and multi-user access.

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Plex+4

Web-based interface for a Calibre eBook library with reading, downloads, user management, and optional e-reader delivery via SMTP.

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Plex+1

PeerTube is a self-hosted, federated video platform using ActivityPub and BitTorrent/WebTorrent to publish, stream, and share videos across interconnected instances.

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YouTube+9

Automates TV series monitoring, searching, downloading, and post-processing from Usenet and BitTorrent with quality profiles, release management, and integrations.

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SickChill+1

Automates movie downloads via Usenet and BitTorrent with quality profiles, RSS monitoring, and integrations with indexers, download clients, and media servers.

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SickChill (hosted/managed offerings)+3

MeTube is a web interface for yt-dlp that lets you queue and manage video/audio downloads from many sites, with presets, playlists, and Docker-based deployment.

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YouTube+3

Self-hosted adult media organizer with metadata scraping, tagging, search, and a web UI for managing scenes, performers, studios, and galleries.

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Plex+3

Stream and manage audiobooks and podcasts with metadata matching, progress sync, and mobile/web apps.

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Plex+1

Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming server for broadcasting RTMP to a web player with built-in chat, moderation tools, embeddable stream pages, and theming.

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Twitch (for live streaming)+5

A self-hosted reading server for organizing and reading manga, comics, and ebooks with a modern web UI, metadata, series management, and multi-user support.

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Plex+4

Self-hosted web server for 3D printer remote control, monitoring, timelapse recording, and an extensive plugin ecosystem.

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AstroPrint Cloud+4

BookLore is a self-hosted ebook library manager for organizing, browsing, and reading your books with metadata, covers, search, and OPDS support.

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Plex+4

Self-hosted media request and discovery app that integrates with Plex/Jellyfin and Radarr/Sonarr to automate movie and TV requests, approvals, and notifications.

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Plex Discover & Watchlist (requests via sharing workflows)

A Google Photos alternative for organizing, searching, and sharing your photo library with face recognition, object search, timeline views, and multi-user support.

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Google Photos+4

Self-hosted Tesla data logger that stores driving/charging data and provides Grafana dashboards, maps, statistics, and automation integrations.

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TeslaFi+3

RomM is a self-hosted ROM and game library manager that scans your ROMs, enriches them with metadata and artwork, and provides a web UI to browse and play supported systems.

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LaunchBox+4

Download, index, and stream YouTube channels/playlists with full-text search, metadata, and a web UI powered by yt-dlp and Elasticsearch.

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YouTube+6

Self-hostable photo sharing network built on ActivityPub, offering Instagram-like publishing, federation with the Fediverse, and moderation/admin controls.

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Instagram+3

Open-source GPS tracking server with web/mobile apps, maps, alerts, geofencing, reports, and support for hundreds of GPS protocols for fleet and asset tracking.

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Samsara+6

A self-hosted photo gallery that indexes folders on disk, extracts metadata, and provides a fast web UI for browsing, searching, and sharing albums.

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Google Photos+4

Self-hosted EV charging controller that optimizes charging using PV surplus, dynamic electricity tariffs, and home energy integration (chargers, meters, batteries).

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TeslaFi+3