Movie Squad is a free Roku remote app that actually knows what's on the TV. It shows the app that's open, how far into the movie you are, how long is left, the stream quality, and every channel on your stick. Then it changes shape to match: a player card while something plays, the app grid when you're on the home screen, the d-pad when you're browsing.
Open the Roku remote Download the bridgeApp name and icon, play or pause, a real progress bar with time remaining, resolution, codec, DRM, captions, bitrate and buffer health. Everything the Roku reports, read live every five seconds.
All 29 Roku remote keys, including the ones your physical remote doesn't have. Every installed channel in one grid, not just the twelve on the home row. Hold rewind or fast forward to scan like the real thing.
Search all of Roku from your keyboard, filter by movie or show or app, and play the first hit. Paste a YouTube link and it opens on the TV. Send a title straight into the app that has it.
A web page can't talk to a Roku directly, so a tiny bridge runs on a computer in your house and passes the messages along. It talks to your Roku on your own Wi-Fi and to nothing else.
One small Python file plus a start script. Python 3 is the only thing it needs, and most Macs and Linux boxes already have it. On Windows, python.org is a two-minute install.
Double-click start-roku-relay.cmd on Windows, or run python roku_relay.py anywhere else. It finds your Roku on the network by itself.
On the same computer, open the remote page here. On your phone, open http://that-computer:8100/ on the same Wi-Fi and you have a Roku remote for your phone with no app store in the middle.
The remote is the first piece. Movie Squad is where a family or a group of friends picks what to watch and stays in it together, especially the ones who can't sit still through two hours. This is what's landing next, in this order.
Two titles go up, everyone in the room taps one, the winner opens on the TV. No more twenty minutes of scrolling while the popcorn goes cold.
Somebody hits pause, the room gets a thirty-second round about the movie. Points per person, a leaderboard per household.
Short facts about the film, matched to what each person cares about, delivered at the act breaks. Something to look forward to every twenty minutes.
Same movie, different houses. Everyone's Roku launches the title, a countdown, play together, pause together.
Yes. The bridge runs on any computer on the same Wi-Fi as the Roku. The remote itself opens in the browser on your phone, tablet or laptop, nothing to install there.
Any Roku with External Control turned on, which is the default on every stick, box and Roku TV from the last ten years. On a Roku TV you also get channel up and down, HDMI inputs and power.
The bridge only talks to the Roku on your own network. No account, no login, no third-party scripts on the page. The only thing we count is a page view.
Use both. The Roku app is great for private listening and voice. Movie Squad shows you things the app doesn't, like the exact time left, the stream quality, all 29 keys, and the movie-night features on the way.
Nothing. It's a free Kumando tool, built in the Bronx by someone who got tired of asking "how much is left?" out loud.