Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

xonery 108 points 33 comments July 19, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (8 comments)

rideontime

Seems to be missing some context. What is this used for? Piracy?

krackers

I thought the whole point of turnstile was that it detects headless browsers and it's supposed to be "difficult" to bypass. Apparently this just simulates clicking on the checkmark. Is it really that easy?

xonery

Docker version on MacOS might not find your TV.

j45

This is interesting, instead of a command line interface it made me wonder what an interface right on the tv could look like. Comparisons to watching tv, are usually a TV interface, with a TV device/app, be it an Android TV/Apple TV, etc. Maybe I'm missing it, I couldn't see a tv interface. The part where it can send video to any kind of tv is a pretty remarkable piece.

slg

Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.

ranger_danger

Can you cast to a Roku device with this?

dtagames

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

hperrin

> I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay. Looks like Claude built it.

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