Nexus features

One system for the home you already have.

Media, playback, rooms and the useful parts of the live home—brought together without surrendering control of your library or your network.

Nexus Desktop Home showing media, rooms, household state and playback.

The complete experience

Six ideas hold Nexus together.

Each part is useful on its own. Together they replace the collection of disconnected apps that usually stands between people and their home.

Media

All your media, beautifully organised.

Bring films, television, music, radio, photos and supported live television into one coherent library. Nexus indexes the media where it already lives, enriches it with useful detail and keeps the originals in your storage.

SMB, NFS and mounted network libraries
Rich metadata with manual review and artwork
Search, favourites, progress and playlists
Selected media available for offline use

All your media, beautifully organised. shown in the Nexus interface.

Playback

Choose a room, not a protocol.

Start with what you want to enjoy, then choose where. Nexus resolves the preferred screen or speaker, maintains the queue and keeps Now Playing visible throughout the household.

Sonos playback and multi-room audio
Google Cast and Nexus TV endpoints
Persistent queues and playback sessions
Room-aware volume and destination controls

Choose a room, not a protocol. shown in the Nexus interface.

Rooms

A home organised around the places you use.

Rooms bring playback, devices, comfort and useful actions together. See what is active, move between spaces and reach the controls that matter without navigating separate manufacturer apps.

Room and device relationships
Preferred audio and video destinations
Live household and playback context
TV dashboards and idle photo displays

A home organised around the places you use. shown in the Nexus interface.

Profiles

Personal for everyone at home.

Each person gets their own progress, favourites, preferences and discovery context. Visibility and suitability controls help make the same household library work for adults, children and guests.

Individual favourites and progress
Profile-aware discovery
Library visibility and child access
Family suitability controls

Personal for everyone at home. shown in the Nexus interface.

The live home

Control more than entertainment.

Bring everyday household information beside media and rooms. Supported providers and configured webhooks can expose lighting, climate, cameras, access, energy and carefully chosen actions.

Lighting scenes and room controls
Climate zones and hot water
Live cameras and security events
Energy, meters, tariffs and bills

Control more than entertainment. shown in the Nexus interface.

Local by design

Your home remains your home.

Nexus keeps essential household state close, streams directly across your network and limits external connections to the services you configure. Your original library is indexed rather than copied into a hosted platform.

Local household data and playback
Original media stays in your storage
Encrypted integration credentials
Disclosed, user-controlled external services

Your home remains your home. shown in the Nexus interface.

Almost everything Nexus does

A deeper system than a first glance suggests.

Explore the capability set by area. Each feature has one home in this list, so the breadth is visible without repeating the same promise under different headings.

Library and organisation

A coherent home for media you already own.

Local and network libraries

Index mounted local storage, NFS and SMB libraries without moving the original files.

Films, television and music

Organise movies, series, seasons, episodes, artists, albums and tracks.

Technical media detail

Record duration, resolution, codecs, audio formats and other useful file information.

Embedded music tags

Build the music library from title, artist, album, track, disc, year and genre tags.

Metadata enrichment

Use configured metadata providers for titles, artwork, synopsis, cast, genres and runtime.

Manual metadata

Correct or create local information and artwork for personal media and unusual recordings.

Review and repair

Review uncertain matches, unmatched items and missing files without rebuilding the library.

Scheduled library care

Run quick and full scans plus background enrichment and repair jobs.

Discover, search and request

Find what is available before looking elsewhere.

Local-first universal search

Search the Nexus library before optional external discovery providers.

Discovery rails

Explore new, popular and relevant films, television and music where providers are configured.

Detailed discovery views

Move from a search result into useful media, availability and request context.

Household requests

Request media within Nexus and follow its status from request to playable library item.

Adult approval

Route restricted child-profile requests through household approval.

Radarr and Sonarr

Hand approved film and television requests to configured automation services.

Lidarr

Send suitable music requests into a configured Lidarr library workflow.

Reliable completion

Only mark a request complete once Nexus confirms playable local availability.

Playback and listening

Playback belongs to the household, not one device.

Room-aware destinations

Choose the room while Nexus resolves its preferred speaker or screen.

Persistent queues

Create, reorder, append, play next and resume queues stored by Nexus.

Whole-home Now Playing

See active sessions, room context, progress and what comes next.

Sonos control

Play local music and radio through configured Sonos devices.

Sonos room grouping

Create and change synchronised multi-room Sonos listening sessions.

Google Cast

Send compatible audio and video to configured Cast targets.

Internet radio

Browse, search, favourite and play stations from the free Radio Browser directory.

Playlists

Create, duplicate, shuffle and play personal or generated playlists.

Television and shared screens

Make the largest screens part of the home.

Nexus TV endpoint

Pair a purpose-built Google TV or Android TV endpoint with a room.

Direct video playback

Play signed Nexus streams through the endpoint’s native Media3 player.

Live television

Combine configured channels, guide data and room-aware playback.

Audio now-playing display

Turn a television into a rich companion display during room audio sessions.

Idle household dashboards

Show time, room identity, household state and selected photo albums when idle.

Camera casting

Send an individual live camera or a configured camera group to a Nexus TV endpoint.

Wake and launch

Use Android TV Remote v2 to wake the television and open Nexus before a command.

Endpoint updates

Check, download, verify and offer signed endpoint updates without interrupting playback.

Rooms, people and context

The organising model that makes everything feel connected.

Rooms and floors

Model the household around recognisable spaces rather than device lists.

Preferred devices

Assign and prioritise audio, video and control endpoints for each room.

Live room state

Bring playback, comfort and useful household activity into one spatial overview.

Personal profiles

Give each person their own active Nexus identity and preferences.

Progress and favourites

Keep playback position and favourite media separate for each profile.

Library visibility

Decide which libraries and content are visible to a profile.

Child access

Apply suitability and access decisions to family browsing and requests.

Room continuity

Carry the same room and household context across Nexus interfaces.

Lighting, climate and household actions

The controls people need, without the setup screens they do not.

Room lighting

Present configured lights and scenes alongside the room they affect.

Webhook actions

Run scenes, flows, scripts and controls in other webhook-capable automation systems.

State reporting

Receive compatible state updates so Nexus can show the result of an action.

Homey and Home Assistant

Connect directly over the LAN without an app or extension. Import and link devices, then run device actions, automations or Flows from Nexus.

Tado and Heatmiser climate

Discover supported homes, zones, thermostats, valves and temperature sensors.

Temperature control

View current conditions, set targets and resume provider schedules.

Hot water

See schedule and override state, then boost, switch or resume supported hot-water service.

Action history

Record the actor, result and time of configured automation and climate actions.

Security, cameras and access

Awareness where the household already looks.

Live cameras

View configured camera streams and snapshots from Nexus.

Ubiquiti Protect

Import supported cameras and doorbells from a configured Protect system.

Ubiquiti Access

Bring supported doors and readers into the household security view.

Unified event timeline

See doorbell, access and provider events in one chronological view.

Camera groups

Arrange useful combinations of cameras for rapid viewing and TV display.

TV camera display

Open live cameras or camera groups on Nexus television endpoints.

Doorbell overlays

Show a quiet event overlay or live view on an available Nexus TV endpoint.

Optional announcements

Trigger a configured household announcement workflow for selected events.

Energy and utilities

Put household consumption beside comfort and activity.

Multiple utility types

Track electricity, gas, water, solar, batteries, EV charging, heat pumps or custom services.

Meters by property or room

Associate cumulative meters with the whole home or a specific room.

Manual readings

Add individual readings whenever supplier automation is unavailable.

Bulk reading import

Paste CSV-like reading histories to establish useful comparisons quickly.

Reading webhooks

Accept meter readings from an authorised external system or sensor workflow.

Tariffs

Record unit rates, standing charges, export rates and validity periods.

Bills

Keep billing periods, totals and optional cost breakdowns with the account.

Usage and projections

Compare periods, estimate cost and project current-month spending.

Photos and household memories

More than a folder of files.

Photo library

Index household photos from configured storage locations.

Albums

Create and maintain reusable collections of household images.

Memories

Build useful memory groups and turn them into albums.

Places

Associate and review location context for photos.

Background processing

Track photo analysis and processing work without keeping a page open.

Storage validation

Check photo storage locations before relying on them.

Storage migration

Move managed photo assets between configured locations with tracked progress.

Endpoint slideshows

Choose a different Nexus photo album for each television endpoint’s idle display.

Local, private and resilient

Power without turning the household into somebody else’s cloud account.

Local-first operation

Keep essential household state and the primary Nexus experience on the local system.

Original files remain yours

Index and stream media from its existing storage rather than importing a duplicate library.

Signed playback URLs

Give endpoints temporary Nexus URLs instead of revealing storage credentials or SMB paths.

Efficient seeking

Serve mounted video with byte-range support rather than copying the whole file first.

Offline downloads

Prepare selected films, episodes and tracks for supported offline clients.

Local client cache

Keep useful catalogue and shell data available through a versioned local-first cache.

Encrypted credentials

Protect saved library and provider secrets with the Nexus system key.

Background workers

Maintain playback, metadata and system jobs independently of an open browser page.

Interfaces and dedicated endpoints

A consistent experience wherever the household needs it.

Nexus Desktop

Use a dedicated desktop client with local playback and update awareness.

Responsive Core

Reach the family experience through modern desktop, tablet and mobile browsers.

Tablet endpoint

Pair a dedicated Nexus tablet interface for a room or shared position.

Touch remote endpoint

Use a purpose-built touch remote surface for shared entertainment control.

Touch switch endpoint

Place a compact removable control interface at the wall.

Endpoint pairing

Approve a code, assign a room and establish a managed relationship with Nexus.

Heartbeat and status

Monitor endpoint mode, connection, version and playback state.

Consistent room language

Keep familiar rooms, profiles, playback and household actions across interfaces.

Clear boundaries

Real capabilities. No imaginary compatibility.

Nexus only presents live integrations and verified household state when the relevant provider or webhook has been configured.

Home Assistant and Homey have direct LAN/API integrations and require no app or extension in those platforms. Generic webhooks remain available for other compatible systems.

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