Home Media Hub / Documentation
Home Media Hub, in detail
Your media on your hardware, reachable from anywhere, with no cloud and no subscription
Project brief
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.
What’s included
• 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
Current status
This project is shipping. Its public documentation will change as the product does.
Questions and support
For questions about Home Media Hub, contact DWMM Holdings with the project name and a short description of what you need. Please don’t send credentials or other sensitive information by email.