# Wroom — site summary for LLMs

**Canonical URL:** https://wroom.tv  
**Status:** Pre-release (features and pricing may change)

## One-line summary

Wroom is a privacy-first self-hosted media platform: a home media server on your LAN plus a cloud platform for accounts, sharing, and remote reachability. Video files stay on your disk; the platform does not mirror your catalog in the cloud.

## What Wroom is

Wroom has two main parts:

1. **Wroom Media Server** — scans libraries, transcodes, indexes metadata locally, and maintains an outbound tunnel to the platform.
2. **Wroom platform** — accounts, sharing invites, tunnel routing, relay fallback, stream setup, and encrypted sync for non-library data (e.g. watch progress ciphertext).

Playback bytes originate from the owner's hardware during a session. Remote browse uses a **live catalog fetch** over the tunnel when the home server is online—not a stale cloud mirror of the library.

## Zero content knowledge

Wroom's policy is **zero content knowledge** for library metadata at the platform:

- Cloud-side library upload / mirroring is disabled.
- Unmatched filenames are not stored on the platform.
- Relay metering does not link traffic to specific titles.
- Watch progress syncs as encrypted ciphertext.

This is a product policy choice, not merely marketing language.

## Security highlights

- **Owner-signed membership** — server owners can sign membership grants (Ed25519); the edge verifies signatures, not only database flags.
- **Outbound tunnels** — home servers initiate connections; no inbound port forwarding required for basic remote access.
- **Playback paths** — direct home connection when possible, TURN-assisted NAT traversal, then encrypted relay fallback.
- **Sharing** — invite-based access with revocable permissions; guests use Wroom accounts, not raw NAS credentials.

## Pricing (preview)

Local/LAN streaming is free. Paid tiers (Connect, Plus) add Official Wroom Relay quota for remote playback. Server relay bronze/silver/gold tiers exist for operators who want more relay capacity. **All pricing is preview and subject to change before launch.**

## Comparison positioning

| Topic | Plex | Jellyfin | Wroom |
|-------|------|----------|-------|
| Files on your disk | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud library mirror | Metadata-heavy | No (self-hosted) | **No — policy enforced** |
| Remote access | Plex relay / account | DIY (VPN, reverse proxy) | Tunnels + TURN + relay |
| Sharing model | Plex friends / home users | Plugins / manual | Platform invites + signed permissions |

## Public pages

| Path | Title |
|------|-------|
| `/` | Home |
| `/how-it-works` | Architecture |
| `/security` | Security & privacy |
| `/pricing` | Pricing preview |
| `/compare/plex` | vs Plex |
| `/compare/jellyfin` | vs Jellyfin |
| `/blog` | Blog index |
| `/docs` | Documentation index |
| `/legal/imprint` | Imprint |
| `/legal/terms` | Terms of service (AGB, German law) |
| `/legal/privacy` | Privacy policy (GDPR / Datenschutzerklärung) |
| `/legal/home-owner` | Home server owner policy |
| `/legal/server-discovery` | Public server discovery policy |

See [sitemap.xml](https://wroom.tv/sitemap.xml) for the full URL list with lastmod dates.

## What this site is not

- Not a hosted streaming service like Netflix.
- Not a torrent or piracy platform.
- Not a general-purpose cloud storage product.

## Crawling notes

- Prefer this file and [llms.txt](https://wroom.tv/llms.txt) for high-level product facts.
- `robots.txt` disallows `/api/`.
- Static HTML fallbacks exist per route for crawlers without JavaScript.

## Community

- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wroom  
- Discord: https://discord.gg/Fz9dZtx6n7

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*Last updated: 2026-06-30. For machine-readable index see `/llms.txt`.*