A self-hosted media server for films, series, audiobooks, ebooks, podcasts, and manga.
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Warning
Silo is pre-release. APIs, configuration, and database migrations may change before the first stable release. Back up your deployment before updating.
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Play Direct play when possible, remux when needed, transcode otherwise, with VA-API, Quick Sync, and NVENC hardware acceleration. |
Organize One catalog for films, series, audiobooks, ebooks, podcasts, and manga, matched through metadata plugins such as TMDB and TVDB. |
Connect Use the included web app, or the Jellyfin/Emby-compatible API with clients such as VidHub, Findroid, and Infuse. Client coverage varies. |
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Share Household profiles with their own watch state, library access, and parental controls. |
Manage Libraries, users, providers, storage, search, and playback are configured in the admin interface, not in config files. |
Scale Start with one integrated server; split proxy and transcode roles across shared PostgreSQL and Redis when you need to. |
Requires Docker Compose 2.24 or newer. The default stack runs Silo, PostgreSQL with pgvector, and Redis.
git clone https://github.com/Silo-Server/silo-server.git
cd silo-server
cp .env.example .env
chmod 600 .env
printf '\nPOSTGRES_PASSWORD=%s\nSECRET_KEY=%s\n' \
"$(openssl rand -hex 24)" "$(openssl rand -base64 48)" >> .envSet MEDIA_ROOT in .env to the absolute path of your media, then:
docker compose up -dOpen http://localhost:8090 and complete onboarding.
The Docker deployment guide covers the
SECRET_KEY backup requirement, storage paths, GPU acceleration, Meilisearch,
external PostgreSQL and Redis, distributed roles, PostgreSQL tuning, backups,
and updates. Migrating from Continuum? Use the
cutover guide.
Until the first release, default-branch images carry an ordered build-N tag
and a short commit SHA alongside latest. Build numbers order published images;
they are not release versions. Release versioning
defines each tag and the SemVer contract.
- Documentation index — user and operator guides
- Development guide — source setup, builds, tests, migrations
- Settings API and Downloads API — client contracts
Questions and discussion: Discord. Bugs, install problems, and performance issues: the GitHub issue forms, which ask for reproduction steps and raw logs.
Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. Features, API changes, migrations, and behavior changes should start as an issue.
Silo is developed in spare time and funded out of pocket, and will stay free and open source. GitHub Sponsors covers AI development tooling (Claude, Codex), push-notification relay infrastructure, and future project costs. Bug reports, code, and documentation help just as much.
Silo's source code is licensed under the
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later). See
LICENSE.
The Silo name, logo, and wordmark are trademarks of Silo Media L.L.C. and are not covered by the AGPL. Forks and redistributions may use the code but must not use the Silo brand as their identity and must remove or replace the brand assets. Publishing a Silo-branded app to an app store requires written permission. See TRADEMARK.md for permitted referential use, including phrases such as "compatible with Silo."