TV

Live Bloomberg, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance television alongside your market research. When a channel is off air, TV falls back to its latest public video and shows its publication label.

Install

This plugin requires Gloomberb 0.15.0 for title-bar tabs (Gloomberb #1038). That host release is pending; released 0.14.x is not supported.

gloomberb install gloom-sh/gloom-tv

Open TV in the command bar. Existing Gloomberb installations restore this plugin once during the migration. Saved TV panes and their selected channels keep working because their pane and template IDs remain unchanged. A previously disabled TV/Macro plugin is not re-enabled, and deliberate removals are respected.

Playback

• Desktop: embedded video with playback and mute controls. The channels sit as tabs in the pane title bar.
• Terminal: Kitty-compatible video output through mpv, started with p or the [p]lay action in the pane footer. Install mpv with Kitty support; yt-dlp is not required. Playback never starts on its own here, because the player takes the terminal over for as long as it runs. The app resumes when playback exits.
• Hosted web: external plugins are not loaded by the hosted Gloomberb app.

Press 1, 2, or 3 to change channels, r to refresh, p to play/pause, m to mute/unmute, and o to open the channel in your browser. The footer actions and channel tabs also support the mouse. When a stream cannot be resolved, or the desktop player cannot play it, the pane shows the reason with a Try again button.

Public stream availability depends on YouTube, the channel, your location, and consent requirements. Stream URLs are refreshed before expiry; playback failures trigger one recovery attempt per video.

Development

bun install
# Link a checkout containing the new host API, as the plugin installer does:
ln -s /path/to/gloomberb node_modules/gloomberb
ln -s /path/to/gloomberb/node_modules/react node_modules/react
bun run typecheck
bun test

index.ts is the native entry: it registers the tv.stream capability and owns stream resolution. index.browser.ts exports the same pane UI and invokes that capability in the desktop backend. Browser bundles do not carry youtubei.js, native code, or a second React instance.

The pane uses only Gloomberb's public UI, component, runtime, and capability APIs. YouTube resolution stays in this repository; the host supplies generic media playback.