Entertainment venues on a Mac
AV, media servers, cameras, IoT and the network behind the show.
The Clubs & Bars preset focuses on AV & stage, media servers, POS, CRM, cameras, IoT and the network/monitoring that keeps a venue running.
Services we install or monitor for this
This preset shows 165 services in 9 categories. FrontierStack can install, connect or monitor them for this job.
Monitoring46
- Alertmanager; Route and deduplicate Prometheus alerts (self-hosted)
- AppSignal; Application errors, performance, uptime and deploys (SaaS)
- Atatus; APM, logs, infrastructure and real-user monitoring (SaaS)
- Atera; RMM, patching, ticketing and automation (SaaS)
- Beszel; Lightweight server monitoring hub + agents
- Checkmk; Auto-discovering IT monitoring (self-hosted)
- Datadog; Hosted metrics, logs, traces and synthetics (SaaS)
- Dynatrace; Enterprise observability and AIOps platform
- FirstWave NMIS; Open network fault, performance and configuration monitoring
- Glances; Cross-platform system monitor (web/API)
- GoAccess; Real-time access-log analyser (CLI/HTML)
- Grafana; Dashboards for any data source (self-hosted)
- Healthchecks.io; Cron & heartbeat monitoring (cloud or self-hosted)
- Homepage; Self-hosted services dashboard (gethomepage.dev)
- Honeycomb; Observability for high-cardinality events and traces
- Infraon IMS; Unified infrastructure, network and configuration monitoring
- LibreNMS; Auto-discovering SNMP network monitoring (switches, routers, servers)
- ManageEngine Applications Manager; Application, server, VM and capacity monitoring
- ManageEngine OpManager Nexus; Unified network, server and IT operations management
- Matomo; Full-featured self-hosted web analytics
- N-able N-central; Unified endpoint management, RMM and patching
- Nagios Core; The classic check-based monitor (self-hosted)
- Netdata; Real-time system metrics dashboard
- Netreo; Full-stack infrastructure and business-service observability
- New Relic; Hosted APM, infrastructure and logs (SaaS)
- NinjaOne; Endpoint monitoring, patching and automation (SaaS RMM)
- Node Exporter; Unix host metrics for Prometheus (self-hosted)
- ntopng; Live traffic analysis; who is talking to whom, and how much
- NUT (Network UPS Tools); UPS monitoring server (upsd) for many devices
- Paessler PRTG; Network, server and infrastructure monitoring (Windows or hosted)
- Pandora FMS; Infrastructure, application, log and synthetic monitoring
- PeaNUT; Modern web dashboard for NUT UPS servers
- Plausible; Lightweight, privacy-first analytics
- Prometheus; Time-series metrics & alerting (self-hosted)
- Pulseway; Mobile-first RMM, patching and endpoint automation
- Scrutiny; S.M.A.R.T. drive health dashboard
- Sentry; Error tracking and performance monitoring
- Server Density; Hosted server, service and container monitoring
- Site24x7; Infrastructure, application, network and experience monitoring (SaaS)
- Speedtest Tracker; Scheduled internet speed tests + history
- Umami; Simple, privacy-focused analytics (Node)
- Uptime Kuma; Self-hosted uptime monitor
- UptimeRobot; Cloud uptime/SSL monitoring with status pages
- Windows Exporter; Windows host metrics for Prometheus (remote)
- Zabbix; Enterprise monitoring; agents, SNMP, triggers (self-hosted)
AV & Stage28
- AirServer; Turn this Mac into an AirPlay/Cast/Miracast receiver
- ArKaos GrandVJ / XT; Live VJ mixing & video mapping
- ArKaos MediaMaster (ChamSys); Stage media server for lighting desks
- Chrome Remote Desktop; Free remote control of this Mac
- Dante (Audinate); Audio-over-IP networking (AoIP)
- Depence²; Real-time 3D previz & show control (Syncronorm)
- Google Cast / YouTube Cast; Chromecast casting & control
- grandMA2; MA Lighting grandMA2 console / onPC
- grandMA3; MA Lighting console / onPC show control
- Kodi; Media centre with JSON-RPC remote
- Liquidsoap; Scriptable radio/audio stream engine
- MadMapper; Projection mapping & LED control
- MPV; Scriptable media player (CLI)
- NDI; Video-over-IP for production (NDI)
- OBS Studio; Live production, streaming & recording
- PixMob; Crowd LED wearables for stadium light shows
- Q-SYS; QSC's AV processing & control platform
- QLC+; Open-source DMX lighting control
- Reflector; AirPlay/Cast screen receiver (Squirrels)
- Resolume Arena / Avenue; VJ / media-server software
- Riverside.fm; Remote podcast & video recording studio (cloud)
- Screenly / Anthias; Digital signage; cloud or open source
- SRT (tools); Secure Reliable Transport for live video
- Syphon; GPU frame sharing between Mac apps
- VLC; Player with HTTP/telnet remote interfaces
- WebRTC (WHIP/WHEP); Sub-second video in any browser
- Xylobands; RF-controlled LED wristbands for events
- Yodeck; Cloud digital signage (Pi players)
Media Servers28
- Airsonic-Advanced; Self-hosted music streaming (Subsonic API)
- Audiobookshelf; Self-hosted audiobook & podcast server
- AzuraCast; Complete self-hosted radio station
- Bazarr; Automatic subtitles for Sonarr/Radarr
- Calibre-Web; Web reader/manager for a Calibre ebook library
- Channels DVR Server; Whole-home DVR for live TV & streaming (self-hosted)
- Emby; Media server with live TV/DVR
- Icecast; Audio streaming server (net radio)
- Immich; Self-hosted photo & video backup (Google Photos alt.)
- Jellyfin; Free home media server (Plex alternative)
- Jellyseerr; Media request manager (Jellyfin/Plex/Emby)
- Kavita; Fast ebook/comic/manga server
- Komga; Comics & manga server (self-hosted)
- MediaMTX; RTSP/RTMP/HLS/WebRTC/SRT media server
- Ombi; Media request system (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin)
- Overseerr; Media request manager for Plex
- Owncast; Self-hosted live streaming + chat
- PeerTube; Federated, P2P video platform (ActivityPub)
- Plex Media Server; Popular home media server
- Restreamer; Restream one input to many platforms
- RomM; Self-hosted ROM manager & player
- SRS; Simple Realtime Server; RTMP/WebRTC/SRT
- Tautulli; Plex monitoring, history & stats
- Tdarr; Distributed media transcoding/health automation
- TSDuck; MPEG transport-stream toolkit (CLI)
- Tvheadend; TV streaming server & DVR (DVB/IPTV)
- Wowza Streaming Engine; Commercial streaming server (RTMP/SRT/HLS)
Routers & Firewalls19
- Cisco Secure Firewall; Cisco NGFW (Firepower/ASA); FMC/FDM API (commercial)
- Cradlepoint; Cellular/5G edge routers (NCOS + NetCloud)
- Firewalla; Home/SMB security router (cloud MSP API)
- FortiGate; Fortinet next-gen firewall; REST API (commercial)
- IPFire; Hardened open-source Linux firewall (web UI)
- MikroTik (RouterOS); RouterOS devices; REST API (v7+)
- OpenWrt; Open-source router firmware (LuCI / ubus)
- OPNsense; Open-source firewall/router OS (REST API)
- Palo Alto Networks; PAN-OS next-gen firewall; XML/REST API (commercial)
- Peplink; SD-WAN routers with multi-WAN failover/bonding
- pfSense; FreeBSD firewall/router OS (REST via package)
- PoE Switch (RFC 3621); Managed PoE switch; port power, budget & cycling over SNMP
- Sophos Firewall; Next-gen firewall appliance; web UI + API (commercial)
- UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall); Easy iptables/nftables host firewall for Linux servers (manage over SSH)
- UniFi; Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway / Dream Machine / Superlink + Network controller
- UniFi OS Server; Self-hosted UniFi OS; run the full stack on your own Mac or Linux box
- Untangle / Arista NG Firewall; Debian network gateway; web admin (commercial)
- VyOS; Linux network OS; unified CLI + HTTPS API
- WatchGuard Firebox; Fireware firewall appliance; web UI + Cloud API (commercial)
CRM & Loyalty12
- EspoCRM; Lightweight self-hosted CRM (PHP)
- HubSpot; CRM + marketing/sales hubs (cloud)
- Loyalzoo; Digital loyalty for independents (cloud)
- Odoo CRM; CRM inside the open-source ERP (Python)
- Pipedrive; Sales-pipeline-first CRM (cloud)
- Punchh; Enterprise restaurant loyalty (PAR, cloud)
- Salesforce; The enterprise CRM (cloud)
- Square Loyalty; Points & rewards on Square (cloud)
- SuiteCRM; Self-hosted open-source CRM (PHP)
- Thanx; Guest engagement & loyalty for restaurants
- VoucherVault; Self-hosted vouchers, gift cards & loyalty
- Zoho CRM; Affordable full-suite CRM (cloud)
Cameras12
- Agent DVR; Cross-platform NVR with AI detection (self-hosted)
- Axis Camera Station Pro; Axis's commercial VMS; Windows server for Axis cameras, watched here over the network
- Blue Iris; Windows NVR (run on a Windows host)
- Frigate; NVR with real-time object detection
- go2rtc; Camera stream restreamer (RTSP/WebRTC/HLS)
- motionEye; Web frontend for motion (DIY NVR)
- ONVIF Cameras; Standards-based camera discovery & control
- RTSP Cameras; Any RTSP-streaming IP camera
- Scrypted; High-performance camera hub
- Shinobi; Open-source video management (CCTV)
- Tapo Cameras; TP-Link Tapo Wi-Fi cameras (RTSP/ONVIF)
- ZoneMinder; Full-featured CCTV / video surveillance
IoT12
- Amazon Alexa; Voice assistant ecosystem
- Anker SOLIX; Smart plugs, smart meters and solar storage over local Modbus TCP
- Bluetooth (BLE); BLE sensors & trackers
- Bluetooth Beacons; iBeacon / Eddystone proximity beacons (BLE)
- Google Home; Google Home / Nest ecosystem
- HomePod; Apple smart speaker & Home hub (AirPlay 2 / Matter / Thread)
- Matter; Commission & control Matter devices
- OpenThread Border Router; Run your own Thread border router (self-hosted)
- Thread; Low-power mesh for Matter devices
- TP-Link Kasa & Tapo; Kasa & Tapo plugs/bulbs/strips + the kasa CLI
- Z-Wave (Z-Wave JS UI); Control Z-Wave devices via MQTT + web UI
- Zigbee2MQTT; Bridge Zigbee devices to MQTT (no vendor hub)
Networking5
- BIND 9 (named); Authoritative/recursive DNS server
- mosh; Roaming, lag-tolerant remote shell (SSH bootstrap + UDP)
- netboot.xyz; Network-boot OS installers via PXE/iPXE
- SSH3; SSH over QUIC/HTTP3; faster handshakes, hidden behind a secret URL
- Zeroconf / Bonjour; Zero-configuration service discovery (mDNS/DNS-SD)
POS Systems3
- Floranext; Florist software; POS, e-commerce & orders (cloud)
- Lightspeed; Retail & hospitality POS (cloud)
- Toast POS; Restaurant POS platform (cloud)
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