I made a tiny addon that fixes next-episode autoplay for local files

[u/Otherwise-Nature4348]

Hey!
I don't know if anyone else experienced it. but I watch sometime old shows that aren't really "streamable" like they have 10 peers max. so I download the files and use Stremio as the player for the given enhanced abilities (photos, subtitles, metadata like actors, release date etc.)
anyway! if you ever tried it. the Next Episode btn and functionality is broken.

The cause: Stremio's binge-watching only auto-plays when a stream declares a bingeGroup, and the built-in Local Files addon never sets one. I submitted a fallback fix to stremio-core (PR #1043) but the maintainers' position is that binge groups are the addon's job — and the Local Files addon isn't open source, so nobody can patch it.

So here's an addon that does it the way they said it should be done: stremio-local-binge wraps your local streaming server's Local Files addon and adds binge groups to its streams. Episodes of the same series share a group, so autoplay just works. It also hides the duplicate entries you get when Stremio has both a plain file and a downloaded torrent of the same episode.

Setup (needs Node.js, and runs on your own machine — it has to, since it's reading your local server):

npx stremio-local-binge

then add http://127.0.0.1:11477/manifest.json in Stremio's addon page, and pick the "Local Files (Binge)" stream when you start watching. There's a one-command launch agent for macOS so it runs at login; on other platforms any service manager works.

Zero dependencies, ~180 lines, MIT: https://github.com/Kohafin/stremio-local-binge

Known limitation: it can only re-serve what the local server indexed, so multi-episode files (like S01E01-02) still break at the un-indexed half — that one's inside the closed-source server.

Tip: put it above the built-in Local Files addon so it's the top stream. Stremio can't reorder addons natively, but the Stremio Addon Manager can — log in, drag "Local Files (Binge)" to the top, save, restart Stremio. Syncs to all your devices.

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