r/RokuHacks

Some time ago, a few of you here followed the development of my IPTV app for Roku.

Well... I ended up starting another project 😅

This time I’ve been working on a Stremio client for Roku, built with BrightScript + SceneGraph.

The idea started pretty simple: make Stremio catalogs and addons actually usable on Roku. As usual, I kept adding “just one more thing” and now it has:

• support for adding your own Stremio addons through manifest.json
• global search
• movies, series, seasons and episodes
• stream selection and automatic fallback
• auto-next
• Continue Watching
• resume playback
• My List
• subtitle support
• PC addon sync
• a Stremio-inspired interface made for the Roku remote

One of the main things I wanted was to avoid locking the app to a fixed set of sources, so you can add your own compatible Stremio addons and use their catalogs, metadata and streams directly inside the Roku app.

I’ve also been working a lot on performance for huge series and on making playback recover better when a stream dies or gets stuck buffering.

There’s still a lot I want to improve, especially the UI, filters, metadata, live TV and overall polish.

The app is currently in Brazilian Portuguese, but I plan to add English later.

And yeah... sorry about the photo quality 😭
I took a picture of the TV with my phone, so it definitely doesn’t do the UI any favors.

Still testing everything on real Roku hardware, so there are definitely bugs left to hunt down.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

What would you add or improve next?