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Setting Up Your First Provider ​

If you've successfully deployed Hound, the next step is to set up a provider to fetch streams. The officially supported provider for Hound is AIOStreams.

AIOStreams acts like a provider aggregator, it connects to different public addons/providers, fetches streams, and handles sorting, filtering and other advanced behavior.

There are two ways to use AIOStreams, either with a community instance or self-hosting.

Official Docs by the Devs

Debrid vs P2P Streaming ​

A Debrid service is highly recommended for streaming content from online sources in Hound. Debrid services are paid services that caches torrents in CDNs, which you can access at high speeds over HTTPS. It allows you to stream high bitrate content (Bluray, etc.) without buffering. The more popular a service, the more instantly-available content it maintains.

You can read more about debrid services here.

Hound also supports P2P streaming, but high bitrate content or content with low-seeders will often buffer. P2P streaming is not recommended except for popular content with many seeders.

If you're downloading content then streaming from your Hound Library later, a debrid service isn't vital.

Note

As you no longer seed when accessing content through HTTPS, it is recommended to select a debrid service that has a seedbox feature, or rent a seedbox yourself to give back to the community.

Adding a Provider Profile ​

Now, we will add a provider profile in Hound:

Setup Steps: ​

  1. Choose a community instance here, or self-host AIOStreams.
  2. Open your AIOStreams web portal. If a setup popup appears, select any option (Simple or Advanced).
  3. (DEBRID ONLY) On the left sidebar, select Services. Turn on the debrid services you have, and add your API key. On the left sidebar, select Filters -> Cache -> Turn Exclude Uncached On
  4. Navigate to Addons on the sidebar, and select Marketplace at the top. Find Torrentio or Comet and press Configure -> Install.
  5. On the sidebar, navigate to Save & Install.
  6. Enter a password, make sure you remember this. Press Create. A UUID string will be shown, this is your username. Save this, as you'll need it to modify your configuration later.
  7. Under Installation Options, copy the Manifest URL. It should look something like: https://aiostreams-instance-host.com/stremio/your-uuid/encoded-string/manifest.json
  8. Open your Hound web Portal, and login to the Admin account. On the top right, click admin -> Admin Panel -> Provider Profiles -> Add Provider
  9. Add a Name to identify your profile, and paste the AIOStreams Manifest URL. If Hound was able to access the host, the profile will have been added successfully.
  10. Navigate to a movie or show. On the Play button, select the dropdown icon and press Select Stream. If you see a list of streams, your provider has been set up successfully! Here, you can choose to download the content or stream it directly.

You can repeat these steps to add more profiles. For example, you might want to have a streaming profile (lower bitrate, debrid) and a downloading profile (Higher resolution, bitrate, quality, etc.).

You might want to tinker with settings yourself to get the best results. In general, the best configuration is one that returns the stream you want as the top result. The official AIOStreams documentation is here.

Warning

The user is responsible for the content they access. You should only stream and download content that you have access to legally.

Congratulations! ​

If you've made it this far, you're basically done! You can now stream and download content through Hound. Read the next section to learn how to add content to your library, or connect an existing library.

Resources ​