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xplex

Set up overview

Setting up multi-streaming with xplex is pretty straightforward. Some technical expertise will be handy—but what’s crucial—is your excitement & determination to see it through.

And if you just follow along the steps, you’ll be up and live in no time!

Get a Host System

As a self hosted service, xplex needs a host to run. By that we mean it needs a computer—albeit small or cheap; but with an operating system —to run on. This reference will help you decide:

Run Preliminary Checks

If you’re using an existing homelab or cloud server with other services running on it, or even on a new system with preinstalled software packages—validate that it meets the requirements to run xplex :

  1. Verify superuser access
  2. Ensure Docker is installed
  3. Look out for conflicting nginx
  4. Confirm required ports are free

Choose Your Adventure

If you’re ready to install xplex , take one of these paths to set it up:

Recommended

Run with Docker Simple, one-and-done way to get started with xplex—in 5-10min.

Experimental

Run native setup Complete control & flexibility for power users to tinker with.

Post-installation Steps

Once xplex is installed & xplexHQ dashboard is accessible—you need to set the ingest URLs of your streaming platforms and update destination in the broadcast software to start multi-streaming.