Home Media Hub
Your media on your hardware, reachable from anywhere, with no cloud and no subscription
Description
A self-hosted media server for video and photo libraries spread across lots of drives. Home Media Hub Manager, a desktop app for Windows and macOS, installs it as a system service with Node.js and ffmpeg included, so there’s no Docker to set up. Reach it from anywhere over Tailscale, or directly through a port you forward on your router. Version 0.0.10 is published for Windows as an unsigned preview, with a 14-day trial. It will be $100, paid once, for one server; keys aren’t on sale yet. It was called Free-WAN until November 2026.
Video your browser can play directly streams as-is, and everything else gets converted to HLS on the fly. All your drives show up as one library with full-text search and filters, sorted automatically based on your folder structure. You can also put your own branding on it.
Features
- Plays files directly when it can, and converts to HLS on the fly when it can’t
- One searchable library across multiple drives, organized from your folder structure
- Embedded and separate subtitle files, playback speed, and pick up where you left off
- A manager app that installs the server as a service, and looks after its connection, license, settings and media folders
- Reachable from anywhere over Tailscale, or directly with HTTPS on a port you forward
Construction
Project resources
- Download 0.0.10download Home Media Hub
- Pricingdownload Home Media Hub
- Home Media Hub product siteYour media on your hardware, reachable from anywhere, with no cloud and no subscription
- Legal and compliancePrivacy, terms, acceptable use and accessibility
- Pricing and license$100, one time: what it covers and what's left to do
- DocumentationHome Media Hub, in detail