[oidar]

I've been thinking about making something like this, but for our actual TV. I just want to it to change channels and not think about what is playing. I want my little one to not have to deal with crazy advertisements, but get the benefit of preprogrammed TV. The current batch of solutions for this are:

1) Hardware modulators. This can get pricey, but it is basically the most like regular TV. 2) Kodi + PseudoTV. 3) ErsatzTV. 4) ChannelsDVR 5) dizqueTV

Ideally, I'd like to have stations pulling from Youtube channels, Twitch Live / prerecorded, local media libraries, and some TikTok.

I was thinking of having channels arranged around interests and genres. A few stations I am thinking of are Classic Cartoons, Artisian crafting videos (primarily on YouTube), Train Rides, Classic Sitcoms, Musicals, Music Production, and Kenji-Lopez-Alt would get his own cooking channel.

[sphars]

I'd be interested in doing something similar for my toddler. All I've done so far is that when a specific YouTube channel has new episodes, I just download with yt-dlp and throw them on my Plex server. All to avoid advertising and the "recommendations" when using the YT app.

If you work something out, I'd love to read about it.

[agentwiggles]

You might be interested in the FakeTV project on Github, specifically "Psuedo Channel". I found it a while back searching about basically the same idea (i.e. "how could I simulate something like TV but provide all my own content").

I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems to be an implementation of the basic idea, and it's in Python, and we're on HN, which means it's a fair bet that you could figure out how to tweak it to your specific desires if you wanted to!

https://github.com/FakeTV https://github.com/FakeTV/pseudo-channel

[sphars]

Thank you, I'll check it out!