The Airwave blog
News, notes, and the occasional dev-log from the project.
Latest posts
Airwave Weekly (18 September 2026)
Three modes for building channels, an AI assistant that works with all of them, smoother scrubbing on every platform, and one-command self-hosting.
Most self-hosted live TV re-encodes your whole library. Airwave doesn't.
ErsatzTV and Tunarr turn your media into one long transcoded stream and use Plex as a file list. Airwave direct-plays the real file through your Plex server, which is the thing it was built to do.
Airwave Weekly (11 September 2026)
The first edition, catching up on a couple of busy weeks of updates.
See Airwave in action
Our new Introducing Airwave video: a quick tour of turning your Plex library into always-on live TV, with a real guide and DVR, on every screen.
Airwave is now on the Apple TV App Store
The Apple TV app is live, native Windows and macOS clients are ready to download, and the rest of the platforms are working their way through review.
I missed channel surfing, so I made Airwave
The longer story: why I built a server-first, self-hosted live-TV system on top of Plex, and what it actually does.
Introducing Airwave
Self-hosted live TV from your Plex library: what it is, and why I built it.