New guide at /blog/remote-control-guide/: enabling the remote in Settings,
opening it on a phone from the QR code, what each control does and which
list it navigates, a checklist for a page that does not load, and why the
remote must stay on the local network. Eight FAQ entries. The remote-control
feature page now links to it instead of the M3U guide.
Both screenshots are mock-backed. The phone view is the first "browser" shot:
a manifest entry names a loopback URL and a mobile viewport, and the capture
frames it in a separate Chromium page behind the same network and content
guards, with the manifest validator accepting loopback origins only. The
setup saves the remote-control setting so the app's own server answers, then
selects a live channel; the Xtream mock's marketing scenario now serves live
stream URLs from local bytes so that selection never leaves the machine.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New guide at /blog/alternative-sources-guide/: where the Sources chip comes
from (a local lookup across the reader's own Xtream playlists, never a search
outside them), how to read fact tags versus ~guesses, check availability,
switch playlists mid-film without losing the timecode, pin a preferred copy
per movie, and what the opt-in auto-switch does and on which players. Eight
FAQ entries, opening with the general ContentDisclaimer.
The two screenshots are mock-backed: the Xtream mock gains a marketing2
scenario that serves the identical marketing catalog under a second
credential pair (with a spec proving the catalogs match), the capture seeds it
as a "Fictional Xtream Backup" source only for shots that walk into it, opens
its category so the movies reach the local content cache that discovery reads,
and two new setup actions open the chip and the checked popover.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New guide at /blog/offline-downloads-guide/: what the desktop download manager
can save, choosing the folder, downloading a movie, episodes and seasons,
following the queue (pause, resume, automatic reconnects), the offline
library, and the Needs attention states, with a nine-question FAQ. The prose
frames the feature as offline viewing of content the reader already streams
and defers legality to the provider's terms and local law.
ContentDisclaimer.astro carries that notice in a general and an offline
variant so later guides reuse it instead of rewording it.
The three screenshots are mock-backed captures. The Xtream mock's marketing
scenario now serves movie and episode stream URLs from generated local bytes
(downloadStreamFixture: 'local-media'), because the capture's network gate
rejects the public HLS stub every other scenario redirects to; the capture
stubs Electron's folder dialog so "Change Folder" authorizes a folder inside
the isolated data dir rather than the real OS Downloads folder; two new setup
actions queue a movie and two episodes and open the manager and the offline
detail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tags were decorative: a plain span on every card and post header, with no
page, filter or search behind them, and a vocabulary of 32 slugs across 16
posts where 22 slugs appeared once. They now form a closed vocabulary of ten
topics (src/lib/blog-tags.ts) that the content collection schema enforces, so
an unknown slug fails the build instead of minting a new tag.
Every used tag gets a hub at /blog/tag/<tag>/ with CollectionPage and
BreadcrumbList structured data; the blog index and the hubs show a "Topics"
rail with post counts; and every chip links to its hub. The cards become
<article> elements with the title link stretched over the card, because chip
links cannot nest inside a card that is one big <a>.
Posts are retagged to the new vocabulary. A structural test covers the rail,
each hub, the chip targets, the sitemap and the absence of nested anchors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Publish "How to Load an M3U Playlist and Add an EPG in IPTVnator": the
three import methods plus drag-and-drop and OS file opening, the
playlist views, refresh and startup auto-update, attaching an XMLTV
guide through Settings or a url-tvg header, the tvg-id / tvg-name /
name matching order with manual mapping, catch-up attributes,
troubleshooting and a seven-question FAQ. The three guides now link to
each other, the download pages point at all three, and llms.txt lists
the new one.
Three guide shots join the manifest: the M3U URL dialog, the Groups
view (reusing open-m3u-groups under the guides group) and the EPG
settings section with a staged source row. A settings shot leaves the
form dirty, which arms the app's close guard and blocked app.close()
indefinitely; the capture now discards unsaved settings before every
action and before teardown, and bounds every locator wait.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Publish "How to Connect a Stalker or Ministra Portal to IPTVnator": the
portal URL shapes discovery accepts, MAC normalization, the optional
serial/device-ID/signature fields and the pinning rules behind the
"generate device IDs" toggle, what endpoint discovery does on Add, the
sections a portal source gets, Account info, and a troubleshooting list
built from the app's own refusal messages, plus a seven-question FAQ.
The guide is cross-linked from the download pages and llms.txt.
Guide screenshots come from the capture script. Shots that walk into a
Stalker portal start the stalker-mock-server and seed its marketing-demo
portal for that run only, so release shots never gain a third source
card. The frame guard allowlists exactly that scenario's MAC and keeps
rejecting every other MAC-shaped string.
To keep the live-TV frame free of third-party images, the fictional live
channel list and the channel-logo SVG renderer move into
@iptvnator/shared/marketing-fixtures; both mocks now serve
/assets/marketing/logo/<slug>.svg, the Stalker marketing-demo scenario
builds its ITV categories, channels and schedule from those fixtures
instead of faker names with picsum logos, and the mock resolves asset
URLs on get_all_channels too, which is the response the app renders
the channel list from.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Publish "How to Add an Xtream Codes Account to IPTVnator" as the first
evergreen guide: what the server URL, username and password are, the
Add playlist flow with the connection test and its four verdicts, the
Auto-detect method for pasted provider messages, what the import syncs,
Account info, refresh, troubleshooting and a seven-question FAQ. The
guide is cross-linked from the three download pages and llms.txt.
Blog posts gain an optional `faq` frontmatter list: BlogPost.astro
renders it as an accordion after the body and emits FAQPage JSON-LD
next to the BlogPosting entry. LinkCards and PostButton keep internal
links in the same tab.
Guide screenshots come from the release capture script: manifest shots
may carry a `group`, `--group guides` captures only those into
apps/website/public/blog/guides/screenshots/, and a release run skips
them. New setup actions open the Add playlist dialog with the mock's
fictional Xtream credentials (connection test shown), the Auto-detect
method with a labeled hand-out, and the Xtream Live TV view. Dialog
helpers and fixture identities move into shared modules so the driver
and the navigation actions cannot import each other cyclically.
tools/testing/website-guides.test.mjs checks the FAQPage schema, the
download-hub link and the shipped screenshots of every guide;
screenshot-guards.test.mjs covers group validation and output routing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The published post was the raw release-notes scaffold: 42 feature and 76 fix
bullets in area-prefixed inventory form, with the four highlight sections
buried after the feature list. Rework it into the v0.22 shape: a "What
changed" table, the four highlights first and expanded, themed
improved/fixed sections with one-line entries, and the long tail of fixes
under a Spoiler. Every PR/issue reference from the original is preserved;
open text drops from 6.7k to 3.4k words.
Spoiler.astro sits inside `not-prose`, so lists rendered without markers
and links in body colour; give its content list, link, strong and code
styling so grouped lists inside it read like the rest of the post.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add blog post warning about scam sites misusing the IPTVnator name to
sell IPTV services or push suspicious downloads (official sources + safety)
- Add "official sources only" callout to README linking to the post
- Replace enumerated language list with a count (18) linking to i18n files
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clarify that embedded MPV on Linux is x64-only, needs system mpv on PATH
under X11/Xwayland, works on .deb/pacman/RPM/AppImage, and is not offered
on Flatpak/Snap sandboxes. Links to the README support matrix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Announce the v0.22 release: opt-in TMDB metadata enrichment, redesigned
two-state VOD/series detail pages, embedded MPV on Windows and Linux, a
built-in desktop auto-updater, global search, and the reworked live EPG
timeline. Includes compressed hero/slider imagery and a disclaimer that
IPTVnator ships no content and is a pure player.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers the embedded MPV player on macOS, toggleable Live TV sidebars,
command palette upgrades, and module fixes. Credits the Telegram tip
about using IINA as the external player and links the related GitHub
issues.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Introduced new components for blog posts to enhance UI and functionality.
- Added support for featured posts and draft visibility in blog collections.
- Created demo blog post to showcase new components and their usage.
- Updated existing blog posts to utilize new components and improve content presentation.
- Introduced a new SVG illustration for supporting open-source software.
- Added a footer watermark image to enhance the visual design of the footer.
- Created a new SupportSection component to encourage user contributions with links to GitHub Stars, GitHub Sponsors, and Ko-fi.
- Updated the Hero component to include a mascot image and social links for GitHub, Telegram, and Ko-fi.
- Enhanced the FeatureGrid and Footer components with improved styling and layout adjustments.
- Updated blog post metadata for better formatting and added a disclaimer in the SupportSection.
- Improved global CSS styles for buttons and animations to create a more engaging user experience.
Entire-Checkpoint: b7a1c2f08179
- Added @tailwindcss/typography version 0.5.19 to package.json
- Updated pnpm-lock.yaml to include @tailwindcss/typography with its dependencies
- Updated sass version from 1.97.1 to 1.90.0 in pnpm-lock.yaml
Create a new IPTVnator website using Astro 5 + Tailwind CSS within the Nx monorepo.
Features include a landing page with hero section, feature grid with auto-scrolling
carousel, screenshot showcase, download CTA, blog with MDX content collections,
and a GitHub Pages deployment workflow. Design uses a cinematic broadcast aesthetic
with TV-effect hover animations, Playfair Display serif typography, and warm dark
surfaces. Also fixes .gitignore to cover nested node_modules directories.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Entire-Checkpoint: 8171359f42f3
