A family watchlist site that turns on the TV and opens the next episode
Claude Code wired a watchlist web page to a Google TV Streamer so tapping a show wakes the TV and launches the next episode in Stremio.
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- Reddit poster Expensive_Broccoli56 Source ↗
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The poster's family watchlist is a web page built from markdown lists, matched against Simkl for posters and watch progress. They added a TV icon to each card: tapping it turns the TV on if needed and opens Stremio on the Google TV Streamer, to the movie page or the next unwatched episode of a show.
The tap posts to a small Cloud Run function, which sends a message through Google Pub/Sub to a listener on a Mac mini. That talks to the Streamer using the Android TV Remote protocol. Because the Mac mini only listens outward, no ports are forwarded. The poster tested it from a phone with Tailscale and wifi off, and says Claude Code wrote the architecture code.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Claude Code built me a watchlist site where tapping a show turns on my TV and opens the next episodeReddit poster: Expensive_Broccoli56Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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