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castarr/docs/adr/0001-companion-to-nodecast-server.md
be-nj a11b5a68c0 Bootstrap Castarr from NodeCast prototype
Imported the native TV app (Kotlin, ExoPlayer, embedded remote server, QR
pairing) plus CONTEXT.md and ADRs 0001-0005. Rename, Compose for TV UI and
the Dispatcharr integration follow as tracked issues.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-25 00:09:00 +02:00

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superseded by ADR-0003

NodeCast is a companion to the nodecast-tv server, not standalone

The first cut of the native TV app parsed M3U playlists itself and needed no backend. We decided to make it a thin companion instead: the TV app is the only client of a nodecast-tv server, which owns sources, channels, EPG, favorites and users. Rationale: those features already exist server-side and would otherwise be rebuilt in the app; the household already runs the server. Consequence: the app is not usable without a reachable nodecast-tv instance. The app-side M3U parser is deliberately kept as a generic-source fallback so M3U/XMLTV servers like ErsatzTV can be added later without rearchitecting.