Top 5 home-theater Open-Source Projects

Kodi Home Theater Software

311 17,502 10.0 C++

Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

Project mention: Favorites no longer showing since upgraded to Kodi 21.0 Beta with Confluence skin | /r/kodi | 2023-12-10

Nativefier-YouTube-on-TV-for-Desktop

6 53 2.7

Run the smart TV version of the YouTube app on a desktop computer.

Project mention: Is there an easy way to watch/launch YouTube on steamdeck without switching to desktop? | /r/SteamDeck | 2023-12-10

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
HTWebRemote

8 51 5.1 C#

Simple remote control of your home theater devices and HTPC from any web browser

Project mention: TIL: My Denon AVR has a web interface | /r/hometheater | 2023-06-15

HTFanControl

4 9 3.8 C#

4D Theater Wind Effect - DIY Home Theater Project

Project mention: Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-04-27

Eh, at the moment a universal remote control app for my home theater. I expanded it somewhat for many other devices than I need, for friends and people on the AVSForums who requested things.
https://github.com/nicko88/HTWebRemote
It's not all that impressive per say, but a number of people seem to really like it.
Also an app to add a "wind" effect to a home theater as well.
https://github.com/nicko88/HTFanControl

MovieDemoClipper

1 3 1.8 C#

Quickly and easily split movie files into demo clips keeping original quality
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).