Nebula

Nebula is an open source broadcast automation and media asset management system for television, radio and VOD platforms. Since 2012 Nebula has proven stable and reliable software in 24/7 broadcast environment and it is now used by TV and production companies worldwide.

Key features

• media asset management, metadata handling
• process automation (media conversion and analysis)
• programme planning, scheduling
• linear playout control
• web and social publishing
• statistics, reporting
• extensible using plugins, scripts and custom services

Installation

See nebula-setup for installation scripts and instructions.

After initial setup, use make install to create symlinks for command line utilities and create your first user using ./manage.py adduser command.

During the setup, it is recommended to run ./manage.py run hub and ./nebula.py commands in GNU screen to see potential errors, but make install also creates nebula and nebula-hub systemd units (disabled by default), which you may use to run the software in production.

• systemd units assume nebula is installed in /opt/nebula/
• nebula service waits 30 seconds before it is started by systemd

To view a nebula log in realtime, use nxl command.

Need help?

Professional support for Nebula is provided by Nebula Broadcast