Autocreate Channels Using The Network The TV Shows Originally Aired On

[brando56894]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I wouldn't exactly call it a problem, but more of a burden: I've always found it cumbersome and tedious to create a good channel setup that replicates a cable package, and usually just end up creating a handful of channels with names like "Sitcoms", "Sitcoms 2", "Sitcoms 3"; "Cartoons" 1, 2, 3; "Documentaries", etc... since I have a ton of content and if I dump all of one genre into a single genre channel half of the stuff will never be seen. I've used both PseudoTV (and the Live fork) and Ersatz, and they both suffer from the same problem, and since Tunarr is a continuation/rewrite of Ersatz I don't want it to fall into the same trap.

Describe the solution you'd like

In the Reddit thread that I found Tunarr mentioned, someone also mentioned QuasiTV, which does the same thing as PseudoTV/Ersatz/Tunarr but it runs on the client instead of a server. It's an Android TV app that links to your Plex account and you select the libraries that you want it to pull from. In the free version it builds the channel guide automatically based on the original network the show or movies aired on (you can even tell it to create movie-only channels too), I have no idea how they do it, but it's an awesome feature since it literally took like 15 seconds for me to have a channel guide with like 15 actual channel names (NBC, CBS, Discovery, etc...) and a well balanced channels (you can select a minimum and maximum amount of shows per channel), instead of me having to spend like an hour or 5 creating the same thing. If you pay $5 for the premium version you can edit the autocreated channels on the device or via a WebUI, which I quickly purchased after using it for only a few hours. It's not nearly as fleshed out as Ersatz/Tunarr are though. Even if you made this a "donator only" feature it'd be great.