[Larrikin]

The ideal setup for this would be faux channels on Plex but I haven't found anything that is quite right.

My ideal setup would be channels generated by shows in a random order like this. But I don't actually want my hard drives constantly spinning and Plex playing to nobody, which is what the channels seem to do. It would just track time and when you tune in, then it actually streams to you.

Mix in some commercials from 20+ years ago between shows optionally.

[ryanmcbride]

In addition to the other ones listed here there's https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv But I can't speak directly on it because setting it up has been on my list of things to do for like a month lol

[resize2996]

a fork/rewrite: https://github.com/chrisbenincasa/tunarr

(not an endorsement, I just found it digging around.)

[Larrikin]

I set this up. It's a little rough using the binaries for the setup and it's obviously early, but this seems to have everything I was looking for. Thanks!

[goosedragons]

I've been looking into this too. I think a couple options are ErsatzTV and PseudoTV in Kodi. Both seem to only stream when you're watching, but they "keep playing" when you're not.

[walthamstow]

ErsatzTV is great. It only plays when you're watching, the rest of the time it's not doing anything. I tune into my Seinfeld channel most evenings.

[add-sub-mul-div]

The aforementioned ErsatzTV has a Discord server where the community will have some links to collections of nostalgic commercials.

[Gamemaster1379]

Check out pseudoTV