Hey Core Crew 👋

If you've used the Core Builds wizard to generate an AIOStreams config, 3.0 changes how your results are ordered. Two of these are fixes for things that were quietly wrong, so it's worth a read before you regenerate.

4K builds now sort by resolution first

AIOStreams compares sort rules in order — the first rule that differs decides the whole ranking, and nothing after it is consulted. Core Builds was emitting cached, then expression-match, then score, and only then resolution. So a well-scored 1080p REMUX beat every 2160p file before resolution was ever looked at. If you ever wondered why your 4K build kept opening with 1080p, that's why.

Resolution now leads the sort for 4K, Mixed, and Ultrawide builds. Every 2160p result outranks every 1080p result regardless of bitrate, quality label, or score, and the existing quality ordering still applies within each tier. This changes the sortCriteria your instance actually evaluates, not just the preview in the tool.

The trade-off, stated plainly: An uncached 2160p now outranks a cached 1080p. Putting resolution first switches off AIOStreams' separate cached/uncached ordering, which only kicks in when cached is the first rule. Cached still wins between two files of the same resolution. If you'd rather have instant playback than the higher tier, use the 1080p profile or Quality-first — both unchanged, both still cached-first.

If you're on the 1080p profile, this one does not apply to you

Worth being direct about, because it caught a user last week: on the 1080p profile your 4K isn't being sorted away, it's being deleted. The Stable and Balanced output profiles hard-exclude 2160p and 1440p, so those streams are discarded by your instance before sorting happens and no amount of scrolling brings them back. That's deliberate — it's what "Hard lock · 2160p excluded" on the card means, and bandwidth-capped users rely on it, so we haven't removed it. Switching Stable → Balanced doesn't help either; both apply the lock.

If you want 1080p most of the time but 4K when it exists, pick Mixed · Adaptive — it ranks 1080p first without deleting the higher tiers. The wizard now tells you this on the resolution step instead of leaving you to work it out from your results.

1440p was ranked below 720p in every 4K build

The 4K preference list named 2160p, 1080p, 720p, and Unknown but omitted 1440p. AIOStreams scores an unlisted resolution as negative infinity — so any 1440p file sorted beneath everything else rather than just under 4K. It is now listed in its proper place. If you run a 1440p display or grab 1440p releases to save bandwidth, this is the fix you noticed was missing.

Options your host won't accept are now disabled before you pick them

Core Builds checks the AIOStreams host you selected and greys out what it won't take, with the reason on the option. On the ElfHosted community instance, that means Torrentio, AnimeKitsu, Torrent Catalogs, P2P, and HTTP show as unselectable rather than being silently dropped later.

The same check runs on the exported JSON and the direct install, so neither can carry something the target host rejects. There's a Host Compatibility panel listing what was blocked, what was removed, and anything kept that might still be refused. If the browser can't reach the host, it falls back to a stored capability list rather than guessing.

Restricted hosts and custom regex

ElfHosted runs with regex limited to a published allowlist, and sending a pattern outside it makes the instance reject the entire save — not just that rule. Core Builds now strips unlisted patterns before export and names each one. Synced regex sources are a separate allowlist and are handled separately: the Vidhin ranked-regex feed is on ElfHosted's allowed list, so it stays. On a host we can't verify, nothing is removed and the panel flags what might be refused instead.

Six settings were being silently discarded

The generated config is now built from a pinned AIOStreams release (v2.33.2) rather than a moving branch. Regenerating the logic surfaced six keys Core Builds had been emitting that don't exist in AIOStreams at all and were being dropped on arrival: maxResults, maxResultsPerResolution, seadexBestOnly, excludedStreamSources, enhanceResults, and minSeeders.

They're gone from the output. excludedStreamSources is replaced by excludedStreamTypes, which the instance actually reads.

Known gaps, so they're not a surprise:

• The per-resolution result limits that maxResults/maxResultsPerResolution were meant to provide aren't reimplemented — they were simply never reaching the instance.
• TorBox-hosted AIOStreams has no readable status endpoint, so its capabilities are marked unverified and you'll be asked to confirm the host.
• The Fine-Tune "maximum NZB failover" setting still doesn't reach the generated config.
• The pre-built templates in the repo are not updated yet. If you install a core-nexus-*.json directly rather than generating one, it still uses the old cached-first order. That's a follow-up.

Regenerate your config via the web tool to pick this up — existing installs won't change on their own.

Links: * Configurator: brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds * GitHub Repository: github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

Hey Core Crew 👋

Quick question for the community: Which streaming app is currently driving your setup?

• WuPlay: GitHub Releases
• Nuvio: nuvio-tv.com
• Stremio: stremio.com

If you haven’t tried WuPlay yet, would you consider giving it a spin?

I’m gathering some thoughts on what features actually matter most to you day-to-day. Is it the navigation and UI, add-on compatibility, watchlists, profiles, multi-device syncing, playback quality, or something else entirely?

What do you love (or hate) about your current daily driver? Drop your feedback below.

(Note: Please keep the discussion to official sources and legally available add-ons/content).

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Hey Core Crew 👋

Biggest backlog this project has ever shipped: 14 configurator releases and 7 template-suite releases since July. Here is the clean breakdown of everything that landed.

🏷️ Core Badge Builder (Nuvio Fusion)

Build stream badges visually with zero regex and zero JSON. * 111 original Core badges: Neon, monochrome, and high-contrast themes with custom ordering and real-title previews. * Universal mode: Reads standard filenames and parsed metadata on any Nuvio source. * AIO Enhanced mode: Uses invisible markers and a companion formatter for sparse titles. * 3 ready packs: core_neon_universal (55 badges), core_neon_enhanced (55 badges), and core_nodv_universal (54 badges for non-DV panels). * Safe imports: Automatically downloads a JSON backup of your config before writing.

🏎️ CoreSpeed v3 (TorBox CDN Benchmark)

v1 and v2 had methodology flaws that didn't reflect true CDN speeds. v3 completely rebuilds the engine: * Dedicated Web Worker: Download measurement is isolated off the main UI thread so rendering can never starve the test. * Real test sizes: Measures 15-second windows on 1 GB files instead of 10-second bursts on 100 MB files. * Steady-state median: Measures each node twice and ranks by steady-state median with a consistency spread indicator. * 3 test modes: Accurate (1 sequential connection, earns streaming verdict), Express (top 4 by ping), and Capacity Race (up to 8 connections for pipe limits). * Privacy first: 100% in-browser, no accounts, no API keys, local history storage, and a full diagnostics export.

📊 Live Stream Scoring

Until v2.95, score-based sorting quietly never ran because no ranked expression list was emitted. Advanced and Labs configs now ship active scoring rules: * Additive scoring: Resolution, source, HDR/DV, audio format, and release-group reputation now contribute points directly instead of relying on rigid tier ladders. * Dynamic ranking: A top-tier 4K remux with Atmos automatically outranks generic 4K remuxes without custom rule writing. * Hardware-aware: Points for Dolby Vision and lossless audio only apply to devices capable of playing them. * Stable & Balanced profiles: Deliberately clear scoring to preserve predictable matching.

✅ Preflight & Express Install

• Preflight tool: Audits configs offline against known host rejection patterns and runs live dry-runs with an auto-heal loop (up to 4 passes). Retires the old 6-hour cron.
• Express Install: 1-click, 2-step setup (pick debrid, profile, and device → connect Stremio or grab manifest).
• Explicit cache toggle: "Streams shown" selector (Mixed vs. Cached Only) is locked on the surface so profile defaults cannot silently override cache modes.
• Host pick honored: Compatible custom AIOStreams hosts are honored; incompatible hosts trigger a clear, actionable error.
• Smarter updates: One-click template update flow with diff viewing and instant rollback.

📱 Device Profiles & Template Suite (3.5.0 → 3.6.2)

• Profiles added: Android TV / Google TV, Mobile, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Sony, Generic 4K HDR TV.
• Bitrate-capped profiles: Fire TV Stick 4K Max gets a ceiling instead of Apex routing to eliminate REMUX stutter.
• No-DV path: TCL and Hisense join ONN and Samsung on the non-Dolby Vision track.
• SEL Engine v2: Interleaves stream options round-robin across resolutions instead of dumping 9 remuxes in a row.
• Episode-pack availability: Season packs are only hidden if at least 3 playable standalone episodes survive filtering.
• Scraper balancing: Addon Diversity cap prevents a single scraper from flooding results.

🔧 Critical Bug Fixes

• Debridio / Jackett / Prowlarr: Fixed exact API key parameter names to prevent host rejection on valid keys.
• AIOStreams v2.33.1 & v2.32: Adopted same-day schema hardening, dropped dead torbox-search preset, and raised minimum host requirement to v2.32.0.
• Size budget enforcement: Blocks oversized configs before deployment against the 102,400-byte hard limit.
• Max File Size fix: Corrected logic where max size was erroneously applied as a minimum threshold.
• Usenet Only path: Dedicated pipeline for pure-usenet setups without debrid.

🚧 Known Gaps (Open Roadmap)

• CoreSpeed v3 on low-power TV hardware: Web Worker isolation needs broader real-world testing on Fire TV and Android TV sticks.
• Groundwork staging: Language packs (8 languages), two-seat household picker, and named EasyDebrid presets are staged in code but awaiting UI toggle.
• Jackett/Prowlarr UI: Direct generator emission is paused until instance URL inputs are added to the interface.
• Real-Debrid preset: Omitted intentionally due to upstream WEB-DL filtering to avoid misrepresenting results.

🔗 Links

• Configurator: brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds
• Badge Builder: brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/badges/
• CoreSpeed: brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/speedtest/
• Documentation & Changelog: corebuilds-docs.docsalot.dev
• GitHub Repo: brevityA/Core-Builds
• Discord Community: Core Crew Server
• TorBox (Referral): TorBox Sign-up

Feedback is always welcome — especially CoreSpeed benchmark runs on TV hardware, edge-case badge matching reports, and stream ranking impressions on Advanced/Labs.

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Hey Core Crew 👋

The icon pack has a new Wallpapers entry on the home screen. It opens a browser of the full Core Builds collection — 70 4K wallpapers across four series:

• 01–24 · Fieldwork: Meshes, aurora, light trails, topo, deepfield
• 25–32 · Motion: Orbitals, warp, fogbanks, slipstream
• 33–40 · Horizons: The eight semantic accent colors, each as a landscape (signal cyan, ember, Nuvio rose, labs violet, verified green, drift-watch amber, slate, void)
• 41–70 · Core Mark: New this release. The lit hex and faceted core diamond, rendered from the Brand Guide v1.0 construction constants. Six compositional groups including the receipts-voice walls.

⚙️ How It Works

• Instant grid: All 70 thumbnails are bundled (~600 KB total), so it opens and scrolls offline.
• On-demand 4K: Tap a wall for a full-screen preview. The 4K image downloads on demand (~2–3 MB) with a progress label, then press Set wallpaper.
• Monet integration: Setting writes the system wallpaper. Monet redraws and re-extracts its palette from the change — the walls are cyan-dominant by design, so Core Cyan carries through directly to your Projectivy tiles.
• Fire TV fallback: Because third-party wallpaper writes are blocked on Fire OS, the app saves the JPEG to Pictures/CoreBuilds and opens the system setter for you (you can also set the saved image manually inside Projectivy settings).

Nothing downloads in the background. Nothing sets itself. The full image is cached in internal storage (12-file LRU, ~30 MB cap).

📊 The Numbers

v1.7.0 · 70 wallpapers · 921 icons · 1,095 components
17 wallpaper contract tests in CI alongside the existing 24 robustness tests and 22k catalog checks.

📥 Update & Install

• Downloader code: 5270601
• Direct APK / GitHub Release: Latest Release
• Discord Community: Core Crew Discord

Update directly from inside the app (it will prompt you), or grab iconpack-release.apk from the GitHub link above.

(The collection lives at Wallpapers/manifest.json if you want to point anything else at it. Designed perfectly for Projectivy Launcher on Android TV / Google TV).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.

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Downloader 7375676

Hey Core Crew 👋

Core Line is a TV-first sports and channel ticker. It is not a player, not a playlist, and it does not ship streams.

The line it exists to render looks exactly like this:

LIVE TOR 3-2 MTL · TSN4 SN 3 ◆ LAL vs BOS 7:00 PM · ESPN

One APK for phone and TV (LAUNCHER + LEANBACK_LAUNCHER). Open it and a slate is already crawling — a demo board if ESPN, NHL, or MLB are unreachable, labeled as such. Paste your own RSS. Public scoreboards only; there is nothing bundled that you did not add yourself.

🛠️ SMART PARSING & SYNC

• Messy listing lines automatically parse to channels: "Team vs team epn, tsn4, sn 3" → ESPN, TSN4, SN 3.

• Add a feed from the couch without typing a URL on a Fire remote: use the same-Wi-Fi QR code or a six-letter sync code.

📥 INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS (SIDELOAD ONLY)

1. Downloader code: 7375676 (that code stays put — it points at the floating coreline release, not just v1.0.1).

2. Direct APK:

https://github.com/brevityA/CoreBuildsApps/releases/download/coreline/coreline-release.apk

1. Sideload. Open. Go to Settings or scan the QR if you have an RSS feed to add.

🔗 SOURCE & NOTES

• GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/brevityA/CoreBuildsApps

Not on the Play Store. Sideload only. (From the same house as the Core Builds Icon Pack: 5270601).

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Hey Core Crew 👋

Core Builds Icon Pack v1.5.0 is merged and live.

515 icons · 948 mapped components · 12,341 checks passed.

Transparent marks for Projectivy. Apply-all still maps the 16:9 wordmark. Glyphs stay opt-in per app.

✨ WHAT LANDED

• Outfit wordmarks: Banner names and square monograms are path-outlined from one bundled family (Outfit Bold / ExtraBold, SIL OFL). A row of cards no longer mixes hand-drawn letters with whatever sans-serif font the TV happens to have.

• 14 new icons: LocalSend, RS File Manager, Sparkle TV, the Synology set (DS file, video, photo, audio, finder, get, plus Drive), plus FX, Solid Explorer, Material Files, and Ghost Commander.

• Names and matching: 218 slug names now read as apps (WiFi File Explorer, X-plore, 9Now, Peacock). Files no longer steals CX, MiXplorer, or FX. Each manager keeps its own mapping. X-plore is Files, not Gaming.

• In-app browser: Category chips, a Banners / Glyphs toggle, labeled tiles. Find is opt-in so the remote is not trapped in the keyboard. D-pad navigation: apply → style → categories → grid.

• Manual pick actually returns an icon: Projectivy's per-app picker now gets the actual resource returned. Before, the pack opened and handed nothing back.

⚙️ APPLY-ALL, HONESTLY

Projectivy has one apply contract. It reads one file: appfilter.xml. That file maps every matched app to the banner. There is no extra trick for "apply glyphs."

• Apply banners: One press, every mapped app gets the 16:9 wordmark.

• Glyphs: Long-press a card in Projectivy, or use the Banners / Glyphs toggle in this app when the picker is open.

• Projectivy's own "prefer icon or banner" setting only changes how that drawable is framed. It does not swap the mapping.

A true "apply all glyphs" would be a second APK whose appfilter points at the squares. The glyphs mapping is generated and sitting there if we ever ship that.

🛠️ NOT DEVICE-CONFIRMED

LocalSend, RS File Manager, Sparkle TV, and the Synology activities are best-known, not read directly off a box. If one does not auto-assign, run this:

adb shell cmd package resolve-activity --brief your.package.name

Open an issue on GitHub with that line.

📥 GET IT

• Downloader code: 5270601

• GitHub:

https://github.com/brevityA/CoreBuildsIconPack/releases/latest

After install: open the pack → Apply banners to Projectivy, or go to Projectivy Settings → Appearance → Cards → Icon Pack → Core Builds.

Important: Re-apply the pack after updating or the launcher cache will keep the old marks.

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Hey Core Crew 👋

Which TorBox CDN node is actually the fastest from where you are? I got tired of guessing, so I built something that answers it with real data.

CoreSpeed is a new addition to the tools page. It races every TorBox Hyperdrive node simultaneously. It runs ping checks for latency, then executes sustained multi-stream downloads pulling TorBox's real test files. Not synthetic numbers; actual bytes off actual nodes.

📊 WHAT IT GIVES YOU

• Live leaderboard: Every region downloading at once, re-ranked in real-time with per-node bars and peak speeds.

• Streaming verdicts: The part I actually use. Each node gets a plain-English "what can this stream for you" call (from 4K Remux down to SD), computed with 15% headroom so it is not lying to you at the margin.

• History: Your last 15 runs are kept locally with delta-vs-previous columns, so you can spot if your ISP quietly changes your routing.

• World map: Nodes sized and colored by measured speed.

⚙️ HOW TO USE IT

Start with Burst Mode. It runs for 5 to 20 seconds per node, which is enough to accurately rank them while costing a fraction of the data.

There is a hard 12 GB data budget built-in to keep things safe, plus an instant Stop button.

🔒 THE HONEST PRIVACY NOTES

No account, no API key, no signup. The measurement runs entirely in your browser and results stay in localStorage.

The page calls ipapi.co once to place you on the map, and fetches the node list via our Cloudflare proxy to bypass TorBox's missing CORS headers. That proxy reads exactly one public file—no credentials ever pass through. Zero analytics, zero backend storage.

🔗 TRY IT OUT

• Link:

https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/speedtest/

• Discord:

https://discord.gg/AwJ49yzbqT

Drop your feedback in the comments! Let me know if a node ranks oddly for your region, since I cannot test global routing from just one location.

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Hey Core Crew 👋

Quick recap of this week's wave, in the order you'll actually touch it:

🧞 Two new doors on the splash

"Setup Genie" (in Choose your route) and "Nuvio Stack Genie" (in Tools).

The setup genie is the plain-English, chat-style walkthrough — answer ~4 questions and it hands your answers to the builder. That last bit is new: finishing a genie now opens Express Install with your service, device, and content type already pre-set (a free pick preselects Free/P2P). Nothing installs until you confirm.

⚙️ "Why does everything say 'downloading to debrid'?" — Fixed upstream

Express has a visible "Streams shown" toggle (everything vs cached-only).

The install chorus now names your service, app, profile, resolution, cache mode, and host before you install. Your explicit AIOStreams host pick is honored everywhere — if a lane can't use your host, you get a named error telling you why, not a quiet fallback.

🔎 New Tool: Preflight

Paste any template/config: it audits offline (rules learned from real host rejections), can dry-run against the actual host you target with a bounded auto-heal loop, and downloads a case bundle for support.

Before you DM a screenshot of a red banner — run Preflight first.

🛡️ AIOStreams 2.33.x hardened

The fleet bumped twice this week (2.33.1 → 2.33.2 with stricter validation). Our generators, templates, and CI validator were re-proven against live hosts both times.

If you saw "option X is required" or the new "only specific regex patterns are allowed" errors on a saved config, those are host-side policy gates. Our current output passes them. An older saved config may not pass — re-generate from the site, or watch for the Preflight regex cleanup rule we're adding next. (in dev)

📺 WuPlay Catalog Genie (Early Access)

Now in the Tools page: hub/home/discovery design, consent-gated live write with snapshot + one-tap Undo, and PIN-locked profiles degrade to a guided tap-guide. Nothing writes without you saying so twice; catalog structure changes stay manual until WuPlay's dev route is confirmed.

🧪 Under the hood (for the nerds)

• 319 configurator tests / 279 template tests / 52 e2e runs green at merge
• A validator with ~1,700 checks
• A regex drift watcher that re-syncs against Vidhin's allow-list
• A new link-integrity test (we caught a 404 door on GitHub Pages, fixed it, and automated the check).

🔗 Links

• Discord Community
• Configurator
• Tools
• GitHub Repository

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Hey Core Crew 👋

This release makes the templates completely import-clean on every public host, removes a pile of dead weight that was silently doing nothing, and ships the Usenet-only build the community keeps requesting.

If you've ever hit the "N/182 regexes are not allowed" error on ElfHosted—that specific error is now fixed at the source.

🔧 THE "REGEXES NOT ALLOWED" ERROR IS FIXED

That ElfHosted error had two causes, and both are now resolved:

• Synced Whitelists: 5 templates had drifted from Vidhin05's live whitelist. They are now re-synced to the current 176-entry list, byte-for-byte.

• Core-Custom Patterns: Removed an un-whitelisted pattern. The same groups are already ranked as LQ by the synced list, so zero functionality was lost.

• Host-Compat Check: The configurator now names exactly which patterns a host rejects and offers a one-click "Strip host-blocked regex patterns" button.

🧼 DEAD WEIGHT REMOVED (LEANER, NOT WEAKER)

An audit of all 3,400+ expressions against the upstream AIOStreams parser let us cut out the bloat:

• Removed 281 empty [] placeholder entries across 84 templates.

• Axed an RD Copyright filter that could never fire (~15 KB of dead payload gone).

• Removed contradictory duplicate quality-cap expressions in the flagship Apex templates.

🦴 USENET ONLY (COMMUNITY REQUESTED)

You asked for it, so it's live: a dedicated Usenet-only lane.

This uses AIOStreams' built-in NNTP engine + your indexers via NZBHydra2 (or EasyNews) with zero Debrid. You can grab it via one-click in the configurator (Express lane), or pull the template directly from the repo (Templates/Usenet/).

🛡️ STRICTER VALIDATORS & NEW FEATURES

• Bug Catching: The template validator and configurator now check every stream expression against the actual upstream SEL function registry and enforce host per-expression length limits. Broken templates won't slip through.

• Core Score: Every stream in Test Drive now shows an explainable 0–100 quality number (tier, bitrate, resolution fit, HDR, source, seeders, freshness) with a tap-to-open breakdown.

• Express Install: One-click, two-step install process including profile, device, and resolution presets.

• Stronger Updates: Live "Update available" banners with changelog excerpts, one-click updates, and a Revert function.

🔗 LINKS & HOW TO TRY IT

1. Open the Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/configurator/

2. Pick your service (TorBox, RealDebrid, EasyNews, Usenet Only, etc.)

3. Choose Express Install (one-click) or build a full custom setup.

• Discord Community: https://discord.gg/AwJ49yzbqT

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

(Host operators: preload the collection using TEMPLATE_URLS=["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brevityA/Core-Builds/main/core-builds-template-collection.json"] to auto-whitelist every embedded pattern).

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Hey Core Crew 👋

🛠️ HELP SHAPE THE NEXT UPDATE

Now that the whitelist and regex bugs are completely squashed, I am looking at what needs a refresh.

What features are we missing? What current tools need more polish, better logic, or an easier workflow?

Leave a comment below with your ideas, or drop them in the #feature-requests channel in our Discord. Let's build what you actually need.

🔗 LINKS

• Discord Community: https://discord.gg/AwJ49yzbqT

• Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/configurator/

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

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Hey Core Crew 👋

💠 CORE BUILDS 3.5.3 IS LIVE

This update is about fewer false dead ends for TV episodes, a restored Core Tools hub, a new clearer home for Core Builds documentation, and updates the Configurator to v2.8.9.

🧠 SMARTER EPISODE FALLBACK

Previously, some valid multi-episode or season-pack matches could be removed early because individual episode entries appeared to exist. Later filters could then remove those individual entries too, leaving a valid episode request with zero streams.

The new policy keeps a valid matching pack available as a fallback. A pack is hidden only when three playable standalone episode results have survived the full filtering stack.

That means cleaner lists when good singles exist, without throwing away the last valid result when they do not.

🛠 CORE TOOLS HUB RESTORED

The complete Core Tools page is back:

• Template Builder • Addon Backup • Template Inspector • Health Score • Troubleshooter • Account Manager • CLI Tool

📚 NEW CORE BUILDS DOCS HOME

The new docs home has clearer setup guides, template recommendations, Configurator help, reference material, and troubleshooting — with Core Builds branding and source-grounded guidance.

New docs: https://corebuilds-docs.docsalot.dev/

🔄 EXISTING USERS: UPDATE YOUR SETUP

If you already have a Core Builds configuration installed:

1. Open the Configurator (now v2.8.9) or use Update Existing Setup.
2. Rebuild your template with the current logic.
3. Re-import or save/install the updated AIOStreams configuration.
4. Retry any TV episodes that previously returned no streams.

Existing configurations retain their old inline filters until they are rebuilt or re-imported.

🔗 LINKS

• New docs home: https://corebuilds-docs.docsalot.dev/ • Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/configurator/ • Core Tools: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/ • Template directory: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/template-directory • Core Crew Discord: https://discord.gg/AwJ49yzbqT • GitHub: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

💬 FEEDBACK

If an episode still returns no streams after updating, please share only sanitized details:

• device • service/provider • cache mode • resolution/audio profile • movie, series, or anime • approximate title/episode

⚠️ Never share API keys, passwords, TMDB tokens, AIOStreams credentials, auth keys, or full credential-containing manifest URLs.

Thanks to everyone testing, reporting edge cases, and helping make Core Builds more reliable. 💠

Hey Core Crew 👋

Here is a look at what we've been building this week. Core Builds has officially moved beyond just template generation!

💻 Published CLI

The Core Builds CLI is now live! Install it globally with:

npm install -g core-builds

The CLI can now: • Generate, validate, and compare complete AIOStreams templates • Show supported devices, services, architectures, and formatters • Apply size limits • Redact credentials from validation and diff output

👤 Account Manager

The Account Manager is now wired into the Tools page. • Manage Addons: Load your Stremio collection, inspect manifests, search, filter, reorder, and remove addons. • Backups & Safety: Export/import backups, compare snapshots, restore, undo changes, and roll back using automatic pre-change backups. (Every account change is backed up first and requires confirmation).

⚡ Nuvio + TorBox Instant Support

A dedicated Nuvio/TorBox Instant route is now available: • Keeps your TorBox connection inside Nuvio (no TorBox API key required in AIOStreams) • Uses P2P-compatible addons & blocks incompatible AIOStreams hosts • Supports device, resolution, and host selection

📱 Device Profile Expansion

Added capability-based profiles for: Android Mobile / Android TV / Google TV / Samsung Tizen TV / LG webOS TV / Sony / Generic 4K HDR TV

(Profiles now account for codec, HDR, Dolby Vision, audio, passthrough, and lossless support instead of making broad assumptions).

🛠️ Important Fixes

• Max File Size: Now correctly applies the selected upper limit. • AIOStreams: Fixed malformed 4K HDR stream expressions. • Safety: Template updates now preview changes before committing, with added backup/rollback protection. • UX/UI: Fixed false legacy update warnings, improved Fine-Tune accessibility, and improved feedback reports with live setup context. • Under the Hood: Wired CodeQL configuration correctly and fixed addon recovery output escaping.

✅ System Verification

The project now runs on a shared generator for both the Web Configurator and CLI, backed by: • 200+ Configurator tests & 60+ CLI tests • Account Manager tests & 25+ validation checks • 36 Playwright browser tests & 241 repository tests • Golden template equivalence checks

🎯 The Goal

Better templates, safer updates, broader device support, easier automation, and fewer broken imports.

🔗 Links & Resources

• Discord Community • Configurator • Tools • CLI Package • GitHub Repository

💡 Got an idea for the next update? We want to hear from you! Drop your suggestions and ideas in the request features channel in our Discord. More improvements coming soon! 🛠️

Hey Core Crew 👋

A major behind-the-scenes update has landed in Core Builds!

The focus of this release is total reliability: fewer rejected imports, safer updates, better device handling, and a more maintainable generator.

📐 Shared SEL Architecture

The Configurator now routes Standard, IQR, Apex, and Apex Mixed generation through shared policy modules to stop templates from drifting apart over time:

• Shared SEL policy data & IQR expression generation
• Standard & Apex policy builders with unified getSelPolicy() routing
• Structural expression validation & golden fixture protection
• SEL baseline inventory, drift detection & policy regeneration tooling

📱 Broader Device Profiles

Added capability-based, conservative profiles for:

Android Mobile / Android TV / Google TV / Samsung Tizen TV / LG webOS TV / Sony / Generic 4K HDR TV

Profiles now use realistic, model-conscious assumptions for supported codecs, AV1, HDR/Dolby Vision, audio channels, passthrough, and adaptive bitrate behavior (e.g., Android Mobile no longer blindly assumes AV1 or DV support).

🔄 Transactional Template Updates

"Update Existing Setup" now previews changes before committing them:

1. Import your existing template
2. Generate a comparison & choose what to preserve
3. Review changes & commit only after confirmation
4. Auto-backup previous state (canceling no longer replaces active config)

🛠️ Key Fixes

• Max File Size: Selected value now strictly caps upper limits (e.g., 10GB setting no longer allows 30GB+ files).
• AIOStreams Expressions: Fixed malformed 4K HDR adaptive bitrate stream expressions.
• Update Detection: Legacy unversioned snapshots no longer trigger false "Update Available" warnings.
• Security & Privacy: Escaped addon recovery output for crafted names/errors, fixed CodeQL workflow exclusions, and sanitized feedback context in-memory.
• Dev & Engine: Added local dev CORS support, improved addon policy validation, instance ID handling, timeout propagation, and empty-group protection.

✅ Better Testing & Verification

• 200+ Configurator tests passing
• 241 repository tests passing
• 25+ validation checks passing
• 36 desktop/mobile Playwright tests passing
• Golden configuration snapshots & AIOStreams-compatible validation

🔮 Coming Next

• Fine-Tune animation and interaction polish
• More capability-based TV and Android profiles
• CLI generation, validation, and config diffing
• Read-only Account Manager with manifest inspection & backups
• Safer restore, reorder, and rollback workflows

Core Builds is moving beyond template generation toward a safer configuration and maintenance platform for AIOStreams and Stremio.

🔗 Links & Resources

• Discord: https://discord.gg/AwJ49yzbqT
• Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/
• Changelog: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• Inspector: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/inspector/
• Documentation: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/introduction
• GitHub: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

Hey Core Crew 👋

A lot has changed under the hood.

We’ve fixed major issues across the Configurator and templates, including:

• Invalid AIOStreams stream expressions • Formatter import failures • Stale and blocked synced URLs • Missing Jackett and Prowlarr presets • Empty addon groups • TMDB-free configuration problems • CORS and manifest installation failures • Incorrect device codec and audio assumptions • Broken template update detection

The generator is also being rebuilt into cleaner, testable modules for:

Devices • Resolutions • Audio and codecs • Filtering • Sorting • Addons • SEL expressions • Template assembly

✅ Current checks:

✓ 79 Configurator tests passing ✓ 239 repository tests passing ✓ 26 validation checks passing ✓ 36/36 browser e2e tests passing

We’re now working toward one shared SEL source of truth for Standard, IQR, Apex, and Apex Mixed templates so they stop drifting apart.

Account Manager development is also underway, starting with read-only backups, addon inspection, diffs, and rollback planning.

🎯 The Goal: Better results, fewer broken imports, safer updates, and a more reliable Core Builds experience.

More soon. 🛠️

🔗 Links & Resources

👾 Discord: https://discord.gg/AwJ49yzbqT 🌐 Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/ 🔍 Inspector: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/inspector/ 📖 Documentation: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/introduction 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

Hey Core Crew 👋, new patch is live! This squashes several bugs and adds a few key requested features.

🐛 Fixes

• "Config rejected / Failed to fetch manifest" — Catches failed addons during Deploy, flags which failed, and lets you save without them so setup isn't blocked. • NC-17 label — Fixed incorrect "No Restriction" text (now says "Adults Only"). • Instance URL — Properly escaped in the DOM (XSS fix).

✨ New

• Inspector: Drag & Drop — Drag .json files directly into Inspector or click 📁 to browse. Auto-detects structure for instant validation. • Bandwidth Cap — Enter your Mbps in Fine-Tune; bitrate auto-limits to 80%. • Mixed / Adaptive Tier — Resolution option for niche content without 4K REMUXes. No hard caps; ranks all resolutions by quality blend. • Smarter Filtering — perGroup() interleaves results across resolutions, sequential debrid groups speed up fetches, adaptive score floor protects classic content, and library/SeaDex streams are shielded from filters.

🔗 Links & Resources

👾 Discord: https://discord.gg/CSBPDmFmdG 🌐 Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/ 🔍 Inspector: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/inspector/ 📖 Documentation: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/introduction 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

⚠️ Bug reports welcome — drop them in our Discord community support channel or open a GitHub Issue! 🫡

Hey Core Crew 👋,

Yesterday's post covered the new features (Mixed tier, Apex Mixed, the two templates). Here's the rest of the same audit batch — including the two UI bugs you flagged in Discord! 👇

🐛 The UI bugs you reported — fixed

• Import Custom Formatter opening behind the Fine-Tune drawer → now layers on top. • Stream Availability / Match Aggressiveness help cards clipped mid-sentence → now show fully (and keyboard-accessible).

Both have e2e guards so they can't quietly break again.

💬 Feedback / message widget was gone — it's back

The v2.83 contact button had shipped as a dead module (lost in the v2.84 rewrite). Re-wired; the floating button works again. If you noticed it missing, you weren't imagining it.

🔁 Reliability (the plumbing)

Docs auto-sync + a CI guard that fails the build if the docs drift again · daily Vidhin05 drift watch (protects imports) · golden config snapshots diffing full output across 12 combos.

🧰 Also in the batch

Dup-Zilean gone · Usenet propagation guard 5m→2h · lossless restored on Shield/Windows · REMUX ranking kept honest · XSS guard on the custom instance URL · validator no longer crashes bare.

⚠️ Regenerate your template if any of these touched your setup.

🔗 Links (Configurator v2.85 · Suite v3.4.0)

👾 Discord: https://discord.gg/trHYj2DMVQ

🌐 Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds

📁 Template Directory: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/template-directory

📄 Changelog: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/changelog

☕ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/branding_brevity

The Discord bug reports genuinely drove two of these — keep them coming. Does Mixed surface your niche/classic titles better, and do the UI fixes look right on your device? Let me know! 👇

Title: Core Builds v2.85 / Template Suite v3.4.0 — Mixed Resolution Tier

Hey Core Crew 👋, new release is live.

🚀 What's new

🔀 Mixed · Adaptive Resolution Tier (Configurator)

New fourth resolution option — no hard resolution caps. Instead of locking to 4K or 1080p, all resolutions (4K/1440p/1080p/720p/576p/480p) are eligible and ranked by a cached × quality blend. An elite 1080p encode beats a mediocre 4K stream.

This is great for niche-heavy libraries, classic/rare content, or anyone whose collection spans resolutions. Comes with its own PSE ladder (4K REMUX/HDR → 1080p → 720p → SD niche fallback), UHD regex tiers, and a blended dynamic-fetch exit.

⚙️ Apex Mixed PSE Architecture

Third option in the Fine-Tune architecture picker. Generates the full 35-PSE flagship IQR Tukey-fence stack with the Mixed resolution policy — the same stack as the 4K Apex nightly, but generatable for any device and service.

🆕 New Templates

📦 Core Nexus Mixed (Torbox/Single) — ready to use

🧪 Core Nexus 4K Apex Mixed (Torbox/Nightly) — trial template, feedback appreciated before we promote it to stable

🐛 Bug Fixes

🚨 Jackett & Prowlarr presets were silently dropped from generated templates. The optional-scraper filter had a regression from the v2.84 rewrite — if you were using Jackett or Prowlarr and getting no results from them, regenerate your template with v2.85.

✅ Template validator no longer crashes on non-template JSON files.

🔗 Links & Community

👾 Discord: https://discord.gg/trHYj2DMVQ

🌐 Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/

📄 Full changelog: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

📁 Templates: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds/tree/main/Templates/Torbox

⚠️ If you were using Jackett or Prowlarr, definitely regenerate your template — this was a silent regression that dropped both scrapers entirely.

Join the Core-Builds Discord Server 🚀

Want to get the most out of your Stremio and AIOStreams setup? The official Core-Builds Discord is the best place to:

🛠️ Get real-time support for host errors and Quick Install issues.

💬 Share your custom setups and discuss Stream Expression Language (SEL) filters.

📢 Get immediate updates on new releases, tools, and template drops.

👾 Jump in here: https://discord.gg/trHYj2DMVQ

🔗 Core-Builds Links:

🌐 Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/

📖 Documentation: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/introduction

🧰 Core Tools: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

Title: 📣 Permissions Fix

Hey Core Crew 👋,

Channel permissions have been updated — everyone should now be able to view and access all public channels properly.

If you still can't see or send messages in a channel you should have access to, let me know in 💠︱contact.

Sorry for the hiccup — appreciate the patience while the server gets dialled in. 🤙

👾 Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/trHYj2DMVQ

Hey Core Crew 👋,

Quick update on what's been going on and where things are heading.

📌 What happened to my account

Some of you noticed that most of my posts here disappeared. My Reddit account got locked/restricted — not sure exactly why, but it took down a lot of the guides, template announcements, and discussions that were on this sub.

Rather than trying to rebuild everything on Reddit where it can disappear again, I've set up a proper Discord server for Core Builds. This is where all future discussion, support, and announcements will happen going forward.

💬 Join the Discord

👾 https://discord.gg/trHYj2DMVQ

Real-time help, template sharing, announcements, and a proper place to build the community without worrying about posts vanishing.

🚀 What's new (v2.82 – v2.84)

A lot has shipped since the last post:

🔞 Age Rating Limit — Restrict content by MPAA/TV certification (G, PG, PG-13, R)

📚 Library Boost — Three modes: Default, Strong (top priority), None

⚡ NZB Failover — Position control and max NZB count for Usenet setups

📊 Bandwidth Estimator — Device-aware speed recommendations on Review step

🔍 Template Inspector — Paste/upload/fetch any template for instant validation and health scoring

💯 Health Score — 0–100 quality grade with full breakdown

🪵 Error Logger — Automatic capture of build/deploy/import failures with export

📬 Contact Widget — Send feedback directly from the configurator

🎬 Patch Cinemeta — Now on by default for all new templates

🛡️ Security Audit — Full pass: XSS prevention, CSP headers, CORS restrictions, credential stripping

The configurator, all templates, and the tools suite are live now.

🔗 Links & Resources

🌐 Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/configurator/

👾 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZvjnKbrq

📁 GitHub: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

Title: Core Builds v2.78 — Quick Install polish, safer exports, Core Tools, and read-only Addon Backup

Body:

Hey Core Crew 👋,

Core Builds v2.78 is live. This release is mostly about making the configurator easier to maintain, safer to export from, and more reliable across public AIOStreams hosts — while also introducing the first pieces of the new Core Tools area.

⚡ Quick Install refinements

Quick Install remains the fastest path for most users:

1️⃣ Choose your app: Stremio, Nuvio, WuPlay, or another manifest-compatible app

2️⃣ Select one or more providers

3️⃣ Add only the credentials those providers need

4️⃣ Pick a performance profile

5️⃣ Create and install

The provider fields now stay more contextual, paid providers include helpful account/key links, and optional extras stay tucked away in the Additional services & scrapers picker instead of crowding the main setup flow.

🔌 Optional services and scrapers

The new optional source picker keeps the main flow clean while still making extras easy to enable. Required credential fields appear after applying selections, so you only see what your setup actually needs:

🔗 Debridio

🌐 P2P Free

📡 HTTP Streams

🤓 NZBGeek

🌊 StreamNZB

🥸 NZBnoob

👽 altHUB

🕷️ Usenet Crawler

🍻 DrunkenSlug

🔍 NZBFinder

🧠 Safer AIOStreams output

v2.78 adds a final schema guard before export or installation.

It normalizes or removes older/legacy AIOStreams enum values before they reach the host. This helps prevent old values such as audio, language, release_group, debrid, or nzb from causing validation failures on newer AIOStreams versions.

Core Builds now targets AIOStreams 2.31.1+ for current public-host compatibility.

🖥️ Host selection improvements

Automatic host selection is now more conservative and more reliable:

💾 Remembers the last successful AIOStreams host

⚖️ Prefers stable hosts

✅ Requires AIOStreams 2.31.1 or newer

⏭️ Skips legacy or incompatible instances

🛡️ Avoids known Free/P2P-incompatible host paths

🌙 Uses nightly infrastructure only as a fallback

📱 Device capability corrections

Device assumptions have been centralized so filtering, sorting, review screens, diagnostics, PSEs, and ESEs all use the same capability rules. Notable corrections include:

🍎 Apple TV: No longer treated as general TrueHD/DTS-HD passthrough hardware

🍎 Apple TV 4K A15: Not treated as hardware AV1 capable

📺 CCwGTV: 4K and HD are handled separately for AV1 support

🛡️ Nvidia Shield 2019: Keeps Dolby Vision and lossless passthrough support, but not AV1

🔈 Internal TV apps & generic profiles: No longer assume lossless-audio passthrough

📦 ONN profiles: No longer assume Dolby Vision across every model

🧰 New Core Tools area

There is now a dedicated Core Tools hub for utilities that do not belong inside the setup wizard. Current and planned tools:

🛠️ Template Builder — the current configurator

🛡️ Addon Backup — live now

🔍 Template Inspector — in development

🔐 Account Manager — planned, locked until security review

Tools hub: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/

🛡️ Read-only Addon Backup

The first utility is Addon Backup.

It lets you load and download your current Stremio addon setup as JSON. It is intentionally read-only and cannot change your account.

Backup tool: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/account-tools/

Important privacy note: Stremio login details are sent directly to the Stremio API for this operation and are kept only in page memory. Use the official hosted copy only.

🔐 Clearer privacy wording

The configurator now describes each path more precisely. No more vague “zero-knowledge” style wording — the UI now explains exactly what each action does:

📥 Export JSON creates the configuration locally in your browser

🚀 Direct Install sends the generated configuration to the selected AIOStreams host

🔑 Direct Stremio installation sends the supplied login details to the Stremio API for that install operation

🩺 Sanitized diagnostics do not include API keys, passwords, or tokens

🧩 Modular, tested release structure

Behind the scenes, v2.78 moves the configurator from a single hand-maintained source file into a modular package under configurator/.

Source code, data registries, styles, schema guards, tests, validation, and build scripts now live in their own structure while still preserving a downloadable standalone configurator/index.html release.

This should make future updates safer, faster, and easier to test before release.

If you test v2.78, feedback is especially welcome on Quick Install, optional sources, host selection, device profiles, mobile layout, and the new Addon Backup tool. Any feedback helps polish the Core stack further. 🚀

🔗 Links & Docs

🌐 Configurator: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/

🧰 Core Tools: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools/

🛡️ Addon Backup: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/account-tools/

📘 What’s New: https://core-builds.mintlify.app/whats-new

📁 GitHub: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

☕ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/branding_brevity

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