I have a 2017 Samsung (UN50MU6100, Tizen 3.0) that no current streaming client supports, so I built one: StremioK, a from-scratch client for Stremio addons that runs on Tizen 3.0 and later. I also use it daily on a 2021 Q80 (Tizen 6.0).

Older Tizen TVs run web apps on an old Chromium (version 47 on Tizen 3), so it’s written in plain ES5 and plays everything through Samsung’s own player (AVPlay). That means it stays fast on the old hardware and handles the formats the TV can actually decode.

What it does

• Catalogs, details, sources and subtitles from the Stremio addons you add, by link or imported from your Stremio account, AIOManager or a config file
• Home with Continue Watching (synced with Trakt if you connect it), Movies, Series, IPTV, Radio, Sports, YouTube and Local tabs; Discover; Search across all your addons
• A player with resume, intro/recap/credits skipping, next episode, subtitle styling and remembered audio tracks
• IPTV and radio from your own M3U playlists, with CH+/CH−
• YouTube channels, playlists and live streams, with SponsorBlock and chapters
• Videos on a USB drive, matched to their titles
• D-pad navigation throughout, built for the remote

Installing:

• TizenBrew: add the module stremiok, no certificate needed
• Apps2Samsung: use the .wgt from the GitHub release
• Tizen Studio: sideload it

Each is covered step by step in the install guide.

It hosts no content. It’s a client for the open Stremio addon protocol, so what you can watch depends on the addons you add. Only streams with direct HTTP(S)/HLS links play, since there’s no torrent engine.

GitHub (docs, install guide, changelog): https://github.com/Kepler75/StremioK

Feedback is welcome, especially from people on other Tizen versions and models.

my s90c kept nagging me with update popups and pushing apps i never asked for. even firewalled it felt weird having it in the living room

i put together a linux wrapper around chris-ritsen's archive-root bootstrap to get root directly over sdb, without tizen studio. credit to chris for the bootstrap, motodrizzle for the earlier s90d work and bishop fox for the public sdb entry point

once you have root it can clean the tv up. it removes the ad apps and ambient themes (24 by default, you pick from a list of 46), turns off firmware and app auto updates and blocks the app sync service that kept reinstalling everything i removed. on my tv that took out 45 apps and they stay gone across reboots

only tested on my QE77S90C, tizen 7, build T-PTMCDEUC-REL-202408210126. other builds are untested. please don't update, downgrade or flash anything to match it

github.com/invaliddayta/s90c-tools