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Filamama Help

The guide to your home media server: installing it, backing up phones, the family's accounts, AI agents, and what to do when something goes wrong.

Install

Your first visit

Create the administrator

Open the server's address in a browser at home, accept its certificate, and set up the family.

Phone backup

Pair a phone

One QR code, good for ten minutes

Piktures scans it and pins the server's key, then backs up on its own at home.

Accounts and sharing

One library per person

Accounts for the household

The administrator creates each account and can give it a storage limit.

AI agents

Let an assistant in

MCP, read-only by default

Make a token for one account under Settings › Agents and paste the configuration.

Every chapter

InstallWhat you need, the Mac mini, Linux and Spark installs, the first visit, updates, and where Synology and Umbrel stand.LibraryBrowsing the timeline, folders, favourites and the trash, videos, HEIC photos, folders and drives already on the server, and where the files live.Phone backupBacking up Android phones with Piktures: pairing, how a backup works, deletions, removing a phone, the dmsp command line, and the server's own backups.Accounts and sharingOne account and one library per person, storage limits, and what sharing between people looks like today.Network and remote accessWhy Filamama answers on the home network, the certificate warning, the firewall, and reaching it from outside the house.ProvenanceThe Origin tab in development: camera, AI or drawing, prompts and sources, edit history, and C2PA Content Credentials.AI agentsLetting Claude Desktop, Cursor or Claude Code read a library over MCP: tokens, the bridge, the tools, limits, revoking, and errors.Common issuesA phone that can't find the server, a server that stops, HEIC photos without a picture, a drive the server can't read, and phones after a key change.Privacy and licenceWhat the server sends to the internet (nothing), the PolyForm Noncommercial licence, commercial use, and trademarks.

Filamama is free for a household, with no account to create with us. The public download is coming soon; the install guides show what it takes on each platform.

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