Everything you need to run your own TV network
From the channel guide your viewers surf to the scheduler that keeps it running — all from your own Plex, on your own hardware.
Watching
It feels like live TV, because it is
A real channel guide
A grid guide you surf like cable. Every viewer sees the same thing at the same wall-clock moment — channels are laid onto a deterministic, always-on timeline.
Live offset + DVR
You join whatever's on now, mid-program, at the right offset — then scrub back within the live buffer. You can't skip ahead; that's the point.
Bumpers
Between-program “Up Next” interstitials with blurred cover art and a countdown — the connective tissue that makes a lineup feel produced.
Ambient music bed
An optional music bed under bumpers, mixed from a folder of your own tracks, faded in and out with the break.
Building
Author a lineup, or let it author itself
Filter-based channels
Define a channel by a metadata filter — genre, year, network, cast, resolution, “added in the last N days” — with a live preview of what resolves.
Ordering & strategies
Shuffle, sort, or layer grouping/rotation strategies on top: marathons, round-robins, length-aware blocks, and no-repeat windows.
Packages
Group channels into named bundles for organization, the guide's filter lenses, and per-user sharing.
Auto-generate a lineup
One click evaluates a catalog of presets against your library and builds every channel it can fill — empty install to dozens of channels.
AI assistant
Optional and bring-your-own-key: describe what you want and a durable multi-agent workflow drafts a whole lineup for you.
Playback
Plays your files as-is, wherever it can
Direct-play first
Streams straight from your Plex and plays the original file natively — 4K HEVC, HDR, multichannel audio — falling back to transcode only when a device can't decode it.
Real capability measurement
Each device runs a short diagnostic that measures what it can actually decode, instead of guessing from a device profile. Accurate, per-device.
On- and off-network
Probes local → remote → relay and picks the best path to your Plex, so the same app works at home and on the road.
Access & privacy
Your server, your rules
Per-user access
Plex-style sharing: grant everything, a whole package (future channels included), or specific channels — enforced server-side on every request.
Private by design
Self-hosted with no telemetry. Your library, viewers, and history stay on your box; the Plex owner token is encrypted at rest.
One image, self-hosted
A single Docker image with a Postgres database. Deploy with compose, update by pulling a new tag. Runs great on a NAS.