308 Media (Roku)

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Roku allows only one developer sideload. This zip replaces the separate Local Media and Old Time Radio channels — install once for both.

Download 308Media.zip INSTALL.md Previous: build 25 Fallback: build 12

v1.4 build 26 — Exercise now lives only on its own Home tile: it no longer appears as a genre inside Vintage TV, and its shows aren't counted there. The Exercise tile (and Continue) still open all 6 groups. Everything from build 25 (Vintage Media hub, profiles, watched / resume) is unchanged.

v1.4 build 25 — new Vintage Media tile right after Continue: Vintage TV, Vintage Movies, Vintage Cartoons, Old Time Radio, 308 Radio Station and the in-season Holiday row now live inside it (OK opens it, Back returns Home). Home tiles: (Continue) · Vintage Media · Live Radio Stations · Exercise · Weather & Local · Games · Profile. Section and radio headers use the new names, and Exercise / Wolfman Jack episodes show a short description. Profiles, watched / resume progress and everything from build 24 are unchanged.

v1.4 build 24 — new Weather & Local tile for Scottsbluff / Gering (National Weather Service): current conditions, local time with sunrise / sunset, next 12 hours, 7-day forecast, detailed forecast, active alerts for Scotts Bluff County and a radar loop (Cheyenne, North Platte, Northern Rockies, US). Left / Right = Now · Radar · Forecast · Alerts; Up / Down = change radar / scroll / next alert; OK = refresh (on Radar: pause / play); Back = Home (radio keeps playing). Everything from build 23 is unchanged. Home tiles: (Continue) · Old Time Radio · 308 Radio Station · (Holiday) · Live Radio · Vintage TV · Movies · Cartoons · Weather & Local · Games · Profile. To go back: install build 23.

v1.4 build 23 — new Games tile with Donut Dash (arrows move, OK starts / pauses, Back leaves the game). Starting a game stops any radio or video. Everything from build 22 (profiles, shared watched / resume, screensaver-proof audio) is unchanged. Home tiles: (Continue) · Old Time Radio · 308 Radio Station · (Holiday) · Live Radio · Vintage TV · Movies · Cartoons · Games · Profile

v1.4 build 14 — fixes the build 13 main-menu freeze (all catalogs now load and parse off the UI thread; Old Time Radio loads a small show index and each show's episodes on demand). Year / season menus with Parts for long shows. Audio Theater removed. Home tiles: (Continue) · 308 Radio Station · (Holiday) · Live Radio · Old Time Radio · Vintage TV · Movies · Cartoons

New in v1.4 build 7 — same content as the web player

The home tiles, Live Radio stations and the 308 Radio Station lineup now come from shared files on the shop portal (/apps/media/shared/), the same files the new 308 Media web player reads. Update them once and both follow. The channel keeps a built-in copy in case the portal can't be reached.

v1.4 build 6 — new logo

A retro gold "308 MEDIA" logo with a vintage microphone replaces the plain title on the home screen, the yellow line under it is gone so the tiles sit higher, and the channel icon and splash screen use the new logo.

v1.4 build 5 — video playback fix

TV shows, movies and cartoons now play through a brand-new video player created for each video (the setup that worked in the build 4 video test), and audio goes back to its own hidden player. The Video test tile is gone from home.

v1.4 build 4 — clean tile home + video test

Home is now a simple grid of big picture tiles (4 across). Each tile opens the familiar genre-first screens: Old Time Radio, Vintage TV and Movies open their genre lists, Live Radio opens the city list, Cartoons opens the Cartoons genre. A Continue tile appears only when something is part-played. The temporary Video test tile (last) runs sample videos and the Andy Griffith episode through several playback setups; if one stalls, photograph the diagnostics panel.

v1.4 build 3 — Netflix-style home (replaced in build 4)

The main menu is now a home screen of poster rows with a large preview of whatever is highlighted. Rows: Continue Listening & Watching (only when something is part-played; OK resumes right away), On the Air (308 Radio Station + holiday sections), Live Radio (4 cities), Featured Shows (10 standout OTR shows, changes daily), Old Time Radio (genres + All), Vintage TV (7 shows + All), Movies (8 features, changes daily, + All), a new Cartoons row (Superman, Popeye, Gulliver's Travels, Mr. Bug + All Cartoons), and Audio Theater. Title-card art comes from the shop portal; if it can't load, a plain 308 title card shows instead. Back from any screen you opened from home returns to the same spot on home.

Video fix: the app now uses one player for audio and video (the old second, hidden player was holding Roku's single video decoder, so videos sat at “buffering 100%”). The 308 Radio Station now-playing screen also shows correctly again.

New in v1.4 build 2 — video playback fix

Vintage TV, Movies and Audio Theater video now play on their own full-screen video player, with Roku's built-in controls (OK = pause, left/right = skip, a progress bar and a buffering spinner). Audio still uses the hidden player that already worked. While a video starts, a “Loading video…” card shows the seconds elapsed, the player state and the buffering percent. If a video hasn't started after 20 seconds, or it fails, an on-screen panel shows the player state, error code, message and URL instead of a silent black screen. Back stops and returns to the list.

New in v1.4 build 1

• 308 Radio Station (first on the menu): nonstop old time radio like a 1940s station, following a daily lineup on Mountain Time — 5 AM–Noon Morning Serials & Comedy · Noon–5 PM Afternoon Westerns & Adventure · 5–10 PM Evening Mystery & Crime (incl. Drama) · 10 PM–5 AM Late Night Suspense & Sci-Fi. Episodes are shuffled from the OTR catalog (no repeats of recent shows/episodes). The now-playing screen shows the show, episode, progress, Next up, the current block and the next block. Up skips to the next show, Down goes back to the previous one, OK pauses, Back leaves. Station plays don't save resume points; a show heard to the end is marked played. No vintage commercials or station IDs: the archive.org commercial sets weren't cleanly public domain.
• Autoplay next episode in Old Time Radio, Vintage TV, Audio Theater and Holiday lists: a 10-second “Up next” card appears when an episode ends — OK plays now, Back cancels.
• Sleep timer: press * while anything is playing (or on the station screen) → Off / 15 / 30 / 60 / 90 min. Remaining time shows in the Now Playing bar; a notice appears 1 minute before, then playback stops with a “Good night” notice. (Roku's video player has no volume control, so it stops instead of fading.)
• Holiday sections from holiday.json: Halloween appears Oct 1–31 and Christmas Nov 15–Jan 6 (Mountain Time), right after the Radio Station. Preview any time: on the main menu press * to add both holiday sections to the end of the menu (press * again to hide). During the season the station also mixes in holiday radio (about one show in three; Halloween only in the evening/late-night blocks).

Christmas: 76 radio episodes (Christmas Mysteries 20 · Christmas Stories 14 · Christmas Comedy 16 · The Cinnamon Bear 1937, all 26 chapters), 7 movies (Beyond Tomorrow, Scrooge 1935, The Great Rupert, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Meet John Doe, A Christmas Carol 1910, The Night Before Christmas 1908 & The Little Match Girl 1928), 5 cartoons (Fleischer Rudolph 1948, Christmas Comes But Once a Year, Santa's Surprise, Hector's Hectic Life, Jack Frost) and 2 TV episodes. Halloween: 25 radio episodes, 11 horror movies, 2 cartoons, 1 TV episode. Every item comes from an archive.org public-domain item, and all 129 URLs were tested on Sep 26, 2026. Left out: It's a Wonderful Life, Jack Benny and Burns & Allen, The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, Lum and Abner, Lux Radio Theater, and Santa Claus (1959), whose Mexican original may have its copyright restored.

Quick sideload

1. On Roku: enable Developer (Settings → System → Advanced system settings → Developer, or the secret Home×3 code).
2. Set a developer password and note the Roku IP.
3. On a PC/phone on the same network: open http://ROKU_IP and upload 308Media.zip, or run:

   curl -F "mysubmit=Install" -F "archive=@308Media.zip" -F "passwd=YOUR_DEV_PASSWORD" http://ROKU_IP/plugin_install

4. Find 308 Media under My channels.

Remote: Main Menu OK opens a section · Back returns · radio AAC/MP3 · OTR Archive.org · Audio Theater from this portal.

Live Radio — pick a city (36 stations)

New in v1.2: Live Radio opens a large city list — Scottsbluff, NE (15) · Omaha, NE (7) · Cheyenne, WY (6) · Denver, CO (8). Each city shows its own roomy station list; Now Playing shows the city. Back returns to the city list.

New in build 3: Playable items only. Removed the Scanner info section, the TV & Info section and the About screen (version is now in the main-menu footer). Every radio and Audio Theater stream was re-tested on Sep 26, 2026; KCMI Hope Radio was dropped (its stream host no longer exists).

• KNEB-AM / FM, KMOR, KOZY, KHYY, KOLT
• KETT, KLJV K-Love, KDAI Air1
• Nebraska Public Media (News/Classical)
• NPM News/Jazz
• NOAA Weather — Scottsbluff (WXL67)
• BBN · CSN International · Effect Radio
• Omaha: KFAB, KXKT, KGOR, KISO, KIOS, KGBI, KIWR
• Cheyenne: KGAB, KLEN, KIGN, WPR, Classical WY, Wyoming Sounds
• Denver: KOA, KOSI, KYGO, KBCO, KWBL, CPR News/Classical/Indie

Skipped: Radio Nueva Vida; KEZO/KQKQ (no working public URL); KVNO (HTTP-only) (official ice10/KMRO returned Not Available from this host). Broadcastify NOAA skipped (login/redistribution terms).

Old Time Radio — 9 genres · 49 shows · 1,333 episodes

New in build 3: 17 more public-domain shows (show list taken from the “Old Time Radio Player” app): Boston Blackie, Bulldog Drummond, The Casebook of Gregory Hood, Jeff Regan, Let George Do It, Five Minute Mysteries (Mystery & Detective); new Crime & Police genre with Calling All Cars, Gang Busters, This Is Your FBI, The Line-Up, Counter-Spy; The Weird Circle, The Unexpected, The Clock, The Chase (Suspense & Horror); Bold Venture (Adventure); Lightning Jim (Westerns). 27 existing shows got more episodes (Adventures by Morse and Frank Merriwell are now complete). Played / resume marks carry over.

Vintage TV (new): The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show (Sitcoms) · Bonanza (Westerns) · Sherlock Holmes 1954 (Mystery) · Flash Gordon 1954 (Sci-Fi) — 7 shows · 138 public-domain episodes. Movies (new): 70 public-domain films & cartoons in Film Noir · Horror & Sci-Fi · Comedy · Drama · Westerns · Silent · Cartoons. Video resumes where you left off (OK → Resume / Start over; * on a movie). Video catalogs: /apps/roku-video/tv.json and movies.json.

New in build 2: Listening progress is saved on the Roku. Episode lists show a gold check + “Played” on finished episodes and “Resume 12:34” on partly played ones (OK offers Resume / Start over; the * button opens the same choice). Show cards show “5 of 20 played · Next: Ep 6”, genre cards show episodes in progress, and a Continue Listening card at the top of the genre list resumes the most recent unfinished episode. Audio Theater gets played marks only (its server doesn’t support seeking). Episode titles cleaned up and air dates filled from filenames. Nine new public-domain shows: Frontier Town, Hawk Larabee, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone (Westerns); Fibber McGee and Molly, Mail Call (Comedy & Variety); Magic Island, The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (Kids & Serials); The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, Adventures by Morse (Adventure).

New in v1.3: Old Time Radio opens a genre list — Mystery & Detective (13) · Crime & Police (5) · Westerns (5) · Suspense & Horror (7) · Comedy & Variety (3) · Sci-Fi (3) · Adventure & Action (5) · Drama & Anthology (5) · Kids & Serials (3). Each genre lists its shows with years aired; episode lists use larger cards with episode numbers and air dates. Back steps episode → shows → genres → main menu. Genres come from the genre field in catalog.json (shows without one go to “Other”).

Public-domain Archive.org catalog (synced with …/apps/roku-otr/catalog.json). New: Texas Rangers, The Saint, Rocky Jordan, Nick Carter, Green Hornet, Screen Guild Theater.