A sideloadable Roku dev channel that aggregates publicly available live TV and radio streams from around the world.
Toskr is a Roku app that lets you browse and watch free, publicly available live TV streams and listen to radio stations. It pulls channel data from famelack-data, an open-source directory of stream URLs.
Four ways to browse:
- Country — pick a country, see its TV channels
- Surf — browse TV by category (News, Sports, Entertainment, etc.)
- Favorites — channels you've saved with the acorn
- Radio — internet radio stations by country
While watching:
- Press Left to open a transparent overlay menu over the stream
- Switch countries/categories and channels without stopping playback
- Press Play to favorite a channel
- Filter by language (English, Spanish, French, and more)
- Search channels and countries
Warning
Radio is experimental. Many radio streams in the underlying data are dead, use unsupported protocols, or hang indefinitely. Toskr includes a buffering timeout that will skip to the next stream URL or show "Station unavailable" after 10 seconds, but expect a low hit rate. TV streams are significantly more reliable.
- Not a streaming service. Toskr doesn't host, re-stream, or store any video content.
- Not in the Roku Channel Store. This is a sideloaded dev channel for personal use.
- Not guaranteed to work. Streams come and go. Some may be geo-blocked, dead, or in unexpected languages.
Toskr is a player and directory — it doesn't host or redistribute any content. It points to publicly available HLS streams that are freely accessible on the open internet, aggregated by the open-source famelack-data project (MIT licensed). This is functionally equivalent to bookmarking URLs in a web browser. The app makes no attempt to circumvent DRM, geo-restrictions, or access controls.
You need a Roku device with Developer Mode enabled.
On your Roku remote, press:
Home × 3 → Up × 2 → Right → Left → Right → Left → Right
Set a developer password when prompted. Note your Roku's IP address.
Go to Releases and download toskr.zip.
- Open
http://<your-roku-ip>in a browser - Click Upload, select
toskr.zip - Click Install with zip
The app appears as a dev channel on your Roku home screen.
| Context | OK | Play | Left | Right | Back | Replay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home screen | Select | Select | Navigate | Navigate | — | — |
| Browse (nav) | Select | Select | Jump to Favorites | Channels | Go home | Search |
| Browse (channels) | Play | Favorite | Back to nav | — | Back to nav | Search |
| Watching TV | — | Favorite | Open overlay | — | Stop | — |
| Listening to Radio | Stop | Favorite | Open overlay | — | Stop | — |
| Overlay | Select | Favorite | Back in overlay | Dismiss | Back / Dismiss | — |
MIT