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I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be
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If any apps, preferably open source, could do a search of services to see if one has "American Beauty" (or whatever) streaming for free AND launches the app directly I'd have no need for my stock launcher.
Stremio (with uh...some optional extras enabled) should do that for you just fine.
It's available on the play store IIRC...because by itself, its just an aggregator. You just need to enable some community plug ins.
Works even better if you pay for just one thing (all of $9 for 3 months iirc - what's the current Real-Debrid cost, someone?).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stremio/comments/17cd861/stremio_all_you_need_to_know/
One really fun thing about it is a "currently hot on ____" (Netflix, disney+, whatever) plugin. Makes the yar har har even easier.
I haven't tried enabling voice search in Flauncher (Android TV and GCCWTV are pain in the ass - won't accept other keyboards let alone voice search apps) so its click into stremio first then go looking.