Homehost
Homehost streams a personal collection of movies, TV shows, and music across a home network as a self-hosted app.
About Homehost
Homehost is an open-source, self-hosted web app for streaming a personal collection of movies, TV shows and music over a home network. It scans configured media folders, builds a local database of the files it finds, and serves a browser interface with browsing, search and detail pages per title.
Key features
- Streams local movies, TV shows and music over a home network
- Browses by genre, popularity, rating and recently added, with search
- Scans media paths and stores files in a SQLite database
- Continuously records media that is added, moved or removed while running
- REST endpoints for library stats, movies, TV, music and search
- Docker Compose file plus npm scripts for setup and running
Best for: People who keep their own movie, TV and music files and want to stream them to devices on their home network.
Good for
- Open source under the MIT License
- Covers movies, TV shows and music in one application
- Keeps the library database updated as files change
Watch out for
- Setup requires a TMDb API key and Spotify Web API credentials
- Files must follow naming conventions that embed TMDb or Spotify IDs
- Interface works best in Chrome; desktop, iOS and Android are listed as forthcoming
Homehost at a glance
- Category
- Software & Utilities › Media Players & Servers
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Homehost FAQ
What API credentials does Homehost need?
Setup requires a TMDb API key and a Spotify Web API client ID and secret, requested from those providers.
How must media files be named?
Movie files include the TMDb movie ID; TV episodes sit in a show directory tagged with the TMDb show ID and use SxxExx naming; music goes in album folders tagged with a Spotify album ID, with non-Spotify tracks placed in a folder titled Unknown Album.
How is the application run?
Install packages, set environment variables for API keys, media paths and client URL, run database migrations, then npm run start; the server defaults to port 5000 and the client to port 3000, and a production start script is also provided.
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