A Samsung TV App for My HDHomeRun, Built During One Football Game

There’s no HDHomeRun app in Samsung’s store, so I built one with Claude Code during a football game. The Apple TV app exists, but it lists channels like files in a folder that you click through, and my Apple TV isn’t even set up right now. I’d been watching through VLC network streams on my phone or laptop. I wanted the TV itself to behave like a TV: open on a channel, flip with Ch+ and Ch-, see what’s on. As far as I could find, that didn’t exist. (SiliconDust has a sideload-only test build on their forum that I never tried.) ...

October 4, 2026 · 10 min · Derek Welty