Hub is a video on demand (VOD) media distribution system that allows users to access to videos, television shows and films.

NOTE: This is a personal project, and is still in development. Use at your own risk!

A basic demo is available at https://hub.foxws.nl/.

Use the following login credentials (managing videos has been disabled):

• Email: demo@example.com
• Password: password

Please note it's a low-tier VPS, expect slowness. :)

Hub uses the following stack:

• nginx-vod-module (main)
• Laravel 11.x
• Livewire 3.x
• PostgreSQL 17.x
• Podman 5.x
• Meilisearch 1.x

This is the preferred stack, please submit a PR if you would like to support other solutions. :)

• Linux (Fedora, CentOS Stream, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch) - WSLv2 is untested.
• Podman 5.2 or higher, with Quadlet (systemd) + SELinux support - Docker is untested, but should work without the SELinux mount flags.

Clone the repository, for example to ~/projects:

cd ~/projects
git https://github.com/francoism90/hub.git

Configure Hub with your favorite editor:

cd ~/projects/hub
cp .env.example .env
vi .env

To access Hub locally, make sure to create the following /etc/hosts entries:

127.0.0.1 hub.lan ws.hub.lan s3.hub.lan mc.hub.lan
::1 hub.lan ws.hub.lan s3.hub.lan mc.hub.lan

TIP: You may want to use AdGuard Home instead, and rewrite hub.lan & *.hub.lan to your homelab server.

Please read the following guide for usage with Podman Quadlet.

Please read the following guide for usage with MinIO.

Make sure Hub is up-and-running:

systemctl --user restart hub
systemctl --user status hub

Enter the systemd-hub-app container (hub shell), and execute the followings commands:

$ podman exec -it systemd-hub-app sh
composer install
php artisan key:generate
php artisan storage:link
yarn install && yarn run build
php artisan app:install
php artisan user:create

The Hub instance should be available at https://hub.lan.

The following services are only accessible when being a super-admin:

• https://hub.lan/horizon - Laravel Horizon
• https://hub.lan/pulse - Laravel Pulse
• https://hub.lan/telescope - Laravel Telescope (disabled by default)

TIP: Run hub a and hub help for all available commands.

Make sure to set correct permissions:

chcon -Rt container_file_t ~/projects/hub/storage/app/import/*

To import videos:

hub a videos:import

To create a tag:

hub a tag:create

To create an user:

hub a user:create

To force the removal of soft-deleted videos:

WARNING: Only run this command when you don't want to restore any deleted videos!

hub a videos:clean

To force indexing of models:

hub a scout:sync

See UPGRADING.md

See Envoy.blade.php for deployment details.