Retro Raspberry Pi TV Brings Back Channel Surfing.
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TVArgenta – La tele retro que revive la magia de los 90s 🇦🇷📺
by Ricardo Sappia on YouTubeRetro Raspberry Pi TV Brings Back Channel Surfing
TVArgenta is a fully offline retro television built around a Raspberry Pi, designed to recreate the feeling of flipping through TV channels — but with your own curated content. What started as a nostalgic experiment with old Argentinian commercials evolved into a complete media platform. The system includes both a frontend player (running directly on the Pi in kiosk mode) and a Flask-based backend for managing videos, metadata, tags, and channel logic. Users can upload and organize videos, define “channels” based on tag priorities or exclusions, and even enable features like child-safe mode to automatically filter unsuitable content. Each video entry maintains synchronized metadata and thumbnails, with automatic checks to detect missing or orphaned files. Interaction happens through a rotary encoder, used for zapping between channels, navigating menus, or adjusting volume.
