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See Reelhost work.

Reelhost is an app for Windows, Mac and Docker that sets up Jellyfin, the free media server, and fixes what's wrong in plain words. These are real screens, with a made-up library.

The full walkthrough

The full walkthrough · 2:32

Watch away from home

Your own web address, like yourname.watchhome.app, without buying a domain or touching your router.

How it works

  1. Pick a name on the Watch away from home screen.
  2. Reelhost gets the HTTPS certificate and sets up a small secure proxy on your computer.
  3. It opens port 443 on your router with UPnP. If your router doesn't allow that, it shows you the one rule to add.
  4. It checks the address from outside your home, so you know it works before you share it.
  5. Every hour it keeps your name pointed at your home when your internet address changes.

Good to know

  • Your video streams straight from your home. Our servers only point your name at it.
  • Prefer private? Use Tailscale instead, with no ports opened.
With Complete or Yearly

A TV guide that keeps itself up to date

Live TV from your antenna in Jellyfin, with a guide that never runs empty.

How it works

  1. Reelhost finds your HDHomeRun on your network and adds it to Jellyfin.
  2. It fills the guide with SiliconDust's free listings, matched to every channel. Nothing to match by hand.
  3. Every hour it checks the guide, even with Reelhost closed. If listings run short, it refreshes them.
  4. The Antenna screen shows when it last checked and how far the listings reach, like "Guide checked 12 min ago · listings until Tue 7:16 pm".
  5. Record a show, or every episode, right from the guide. Commercial skipping marks the breaks.
Guide setup with Core. Recordings and commercial skipping with Complete.

Switch from Plex

Bring what everyone has watched, where they stopped, and your collections.

How it works

  1. Reelhost finds Plex on your computer, or you choose a copy of its database.
  2. It reads a copy, so Plex itself is never changed and can keep running.
  3. You match each Plex person to a Jellyfin user, or create one.
  4. See what will be copied, then copy it. One click undoes it.
Preview free. Copying with Complete or Yearly.

Subtitles for everything

Downloaded where they exist, made with AI where they don't.

How it works

  1. Reelhost first has Jellyfin download subtitles that already exist, through its Open Subtitles add-on.
  2. For the rest, it makes subtitles with AI on your own computer. Nothing is sent anywhere.
  3. You choose when: only while the computer is quiet, or anytime at low priority, so playback never stutters.
  4. Each subtitle is saved next to its video. Your video files are never changed.
With Complete or Yearly · AI subtitles are in beta

Undo one fix

Changed your mind about one fix? Put back just that one.

How it works

  1. Before every Apply, Reelhost backs up the settings it's about to change.
  2. On the check-up, untick a fix you applied.
  3. Confirm, and Reelhost puts back exactly what that fix changed. Nothing else moves.
  4. Restore on the Backups screen puts back a whole Apply.
With every paid plan

Reelhost in one minute

Why Jellyfin, why it's hard to set up, and what Reelhost does about it.

Try it yourself

The check-up is free and changes nothing. It shows every problem and every change in plain words before you pay.