# Install openiothub-server with Homebrew

Server for OpenIoTHub. Version 1.2.25 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:openiothub-server
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install openiothub-server
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:openiothub-server
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openiothub-server>
- **Version:** 1.2.25
- **Source summary:** Server for OpenIoTHub
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/OpenIoTHub/server-go>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/OpenIoTHub/server-go>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/OpenIoTHub/server-go#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/OpenIoTHub/server-go.git>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- openiothub-server (cli)
- server-go (cli)
- openiothub-server (alias)
- server-go (alias)

## Build dependencies

- go

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Service: declared
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.2.25
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/OpenIoTHub/server-go
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

openiothub-server packages server-go, the OpenIoTHub traffic-forwarding server. It is a small Go server for self-hosting the relay side of OpenIoTHub, a platform for reaching network services and IoT devices behind NAT or firewalls.

### Project history

The server belongs to the OpenIoTHub ecosystem rather than standing alone as a general tunnel product. The main OpenIoTHub repository describes the platform as a free IoT and private-cloud platform for remote access to services and devices, while the server-go README says ordinary users do not need to deploy this relay unless they want a self-hosted forwarding server.

### Adoption history

The project appears to be niche: its own documentation frames the server as an advanced or optional component, and Homebrew formerly packaged it under the upstream name server-go before exposing it as openiothub-server. Distribution support is practical rather than broad-community historical evidence: the upstream README documents Homebrew, Snap, Scoop, deb/rpm downloads, manual binaries, shell install, and Docker.

### How it is used

Operators run openiothub-server when they want their OpenIoTHub gateway to connect to a self-built relay. The configuration covers TCP, UDP/KCP, TLS, gRPC, HTTP, HTTPS, a login key, certificates, logging, public host information, and optional Redis persistence for HTTP proxy configuration.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, the interesting detail is the naming and deployment shape: a Go tunnel/relay server published through several binary channels, renamed by Homebrew from server-go to openiothub-server, and useful mostly to users who already understand the rest of the OpenIoTHub client and gateway stack.

### Related projects

- The closest related OpenIoTHub components are the OpenIoTHub client app and gateway-go, the LAN-side gateway that receives access requests.

### Sources

- <https://docs.iothub.cloud/server/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openiothub-server>
- <https://github.com/OpenIoTHub/OpenIoTHub>
- <https://github.com/OpenIoTHub/server-go>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** openiothub-server
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata.
- [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [gateway-go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gateway-go/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, go, iot, networking.
- [tuntox](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tuntox/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, nat-traversal, networking, tunneling.
- [jprq](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/jprq/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, tunneling.
- [libcoap](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libcoap/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, iot, networking.
- [localtunnel](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/localtunnel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, tunneling.
- [pgrok](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pgrok/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, tunneling.
- [ptunnel](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ptunnel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, tunneling.
- [tcptunnel](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tcptunnel/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, tunneling.
- [coturn](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/coturn/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, nat, nat-traversal, networking, server.
- [rathole](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rathole/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, nat, nat-traversal, networking, traversal.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/openiothub-server.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/openiothub-server.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
