Show HN: Kino is a Google TV app that turns the TV into a media server (opens in new tab)

Ok, so Kino is an Android app for Google TV that uses TVs internal storage and any USB storage connected to the TV to store, stream and manage videos. You don't need any 3rd party hardware, the TV is the computer. Also the TV app has open, documented API so maybe you can do interesting things like automation.

It has a native macOS companion app that instantly finds your TVs with Kino installed on your network, pairs securely and lets you upload to the TV or download the videos back into your mac and stream the files from the TV into your mac. If you don't have a mac it does offer a WebUI.

The TV app can play the videos, supports subtitles(both embedded into the video container and as separate files like .srt) and remembers the last playback location of the videos so you can continue watch them later from where you left.

It supports seamlessly switching from watching the videos on the TV to streaming them from the macOS app and back again. I made a short video demonstrating that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IECSIlrNBDw

The macOS app is still in review, so not yet on the App Store, but you can download it from the website(it is notarized, should run with no problems): https://appwared.com/apps/kino

The app(both the TV app and the macOS companion app) doesn't collect any data(beyond what Apple or Google may collect in their systems), its completely private.

I made this app for myself and then decided to publish it and see what happens, so feedback is greatly appreciated. I had access to just one TV, so I'm sure you will be able to find bugs, apologies.

You can download and use it for free but it has 10 video limit and asks you for a one time purchase to remove the limit but I find that the free limit is good enough for most casual use.

Oh almost forgot, the API of the TV app is completely open and documented and can be viewed on http://TVIPADDRESS:PORT (the Web UI url sans-/web). It can be used to do things like automatically moving the downloaded to the TV storage etc.

I find it very useful for my use cases and I hope you like it too. If you do, can you please support it on producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/kino-your-tv-becomes-a-med...

Here's some promo codes that can be used to upgrade to the full version for free:

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