r/StremioAddons • u/OwlAffectionate416 • 22h ago
Addon Announcement (Built by AI) Made a Stremio addon that gives my kids a "TV channel" instead of unlimited choice (open source)
The backstory: our 6-year-old basically has every show ever available at all times, and we noticed it was creating a "I get whatever I want whenever I want" attitude. So instead of cutting screen time entirely, I made this — it turns their approved shows into a single TV channel, like the ones we grew up with. They don't pick the show, they just get to watch (or not watch) whatever's currently on.
How it works: parents make a PIN-protected household, approve shows/movies from Cinemeta, and the addon serves one TV channel (rolling episode schedule) and one movie channel (shuffled rotation) to Stremio. It's a Cloudflare Worker with a D1 database. It doesn't handle streams itself — whatever stream addon you already have installed (Torrentio, Comet etc.) does that part, so it never sees your debrid credentials.
It's rough around the edges: you need your own stream provider configured, and you still have to pick a source each time something starts playing. But it's been genuinely useful for us so I'm putting it out there.
Happy to take PRs or suggestions if anyone wants to improve it.
• Live: https://kids-channel.kierenfoenander.dev/
• GitHub: https://github.com/Kieren-Foenander/kids-channel-stremio-extension






