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Castreon
About Castreon

Headend software you run yourself.

Castreon captures TV channels from the network, from DVB cards and SAT>IP tuners, IP cameras or your own files, transcodes them on CPU or GPU and delivers them to apps, set-top boxes, video platforms and CDNs — from a Linux server of your own, managed in one web panel.

Who is behind Castreon

Castreon is developed and sold by Web Tools IT, a company in Germany. Contracts follow German law, invoices are issued in Germany, and the website and customer accounts are hosted in the EU.

Company details (Imprint) →

How we work

Your server, your data

Castreon runs on your hardware. Channels, sources, keys, recordings and viewer data stay there — we have no access to them.

No lock-in

Monthly licenses without a minimum term. If you cancel, your configuration stays on your server, untouched.

Out in the open

Every release is listed with its changes in the public changelog, and the documentation can be read by anyone, without an account.

Real screenshots

The pictures on this website are taken from the actual panel on a demo server — no mock-ups.

Contact

Plans and volume offers: [email protected] · General questions: [email protected] · Customers: tickets in the customer account.

Privacy

Cookies & local storage

Strictly necessary cookies are always active. Analytics and marketing use Google services and only start if you accept them — until then nothing is sent to Google. You can withdraw your consent here at any time.

Strictly necessary

Without them, sign-in, forms and your chosen language don’t work. They don’t require consent (§ 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG).

Always active
Name Purpose Duration Type
castreon-session Keeps your session: sign-in and chosen language 2 hours, renewed on every visit Cookie
XSRF-TOKEN Protects forms against forged requests 2 hours, renewed on every visit Cookie
remember_web_… Only if you tick “Remember me” at sign-in Until you sign out, max. 400 days Cookie
__cf_bm Cloudflare: tells visitors and bots apart, only when traffic is being checked 30 minutes Cookie · Cloudflare
castreon:consent Remembers your cookie choice 12 months Local storage
theme Customer account appearance: light, dark or system Until you change it Local storage

Analytics

Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Ltd.): which pages are visited, where visits come from and on which type of device — with pseudonymous identifiers, without storing your IP address. Helps us improve the website.

Name Purpose Duration Type
_ga Google Analytics: recognises the visitor (pseudonymous ID) 13 months Cookie · Google Analytics
_ga_VHWQRPHPEF Google Analytics: keeps the state of the visit 13 months Cookie · Google Analytics

Marketing

Google Ads (Google Ireland Ltd.): measures whether visits from Google ads lead to a trial or a plan, and allows Castreon ads to be shown on other websites (remarketing).

Name Purpose Duration Type
_gcl_au, _gcl_aw Google Ads: links the visit to the ad click (conversions) 90 days Cookie · Google Ads
IDE, test_cookie Google Ads: remarketing and ad measurement, on Google domains (doubleclick.net) Up to 13 months Cookie · Google (third party)