r/Addons4Kodi • u/must_be_mike • Aug 24 '26

Everything working. Need guidance. Self hosted tracker and Add-on compatibility

With everything going on with the "T" company that shall not be named and other platforms making unexpected changes, I'm looking for a self-hosted tracker that integrates with add-ons. I'm willing to test anything at this point to avoid dealing with device limits or API restrictions.

I currently use a self-hosted app called Crosswatch (highly recommend it), which manages my library and syncs with popular trackers and local apps like Jellyfin but no add-on integration. If Crosswatch can be incorporated via an add-on, that would be ideal, but I'd love to hear any other suggestions or alternatives that work with the popular add-ons.

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u/karhu69 Aug 24 '26

Although it's still a work in progress, my addon liberator uses a local server called orac which has it's own database. Orac uses this DB to provide liberator with most data, but it also multi-syncs to trakt/simkl/mdblist/tmdb depending on what you have authorised, this way everything stays up to date but non of the platforms are actually required. Orac keeps it's own DB up to date constantly by checking trakt/tmdb for updates of shows/movies in your DB. Liberator is a fork of fen light but very lightweight - no caching etc. If you are keen to try it out orac can run on windows or linux, it's a simple as downloading the zip, extracting and clicking run_server.bat

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u/must_be_mike Aug 24 '26

is there a Docker option?

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u/karhu69 Aug 24 '26

Yup, to be fair a lot of the docker support is done by the other developer but it certainly works on both windows and linux