StreamFin v0.2.0 - new logo & UI refresh

A visual refresh:

• New app logo — shows in the Switch home menu and hbmenu.
• Brand-red theme — the selection highlight (previously Switchfin's cyan) now matches the logo red across every focused card, button and list row.
• Focused cards pop — a slightly lifted red glow so the selected poster stands out more from across the room.
• Detail page — the Watch/Episodes button and the title's info line now use the brand red.

Rolls up everything from the v0.1.x line: user-configurable stream/subtitle/poster addons via switch/streamfin-addon.txt, IMDb ratings on posters, better search, and the buffering/overclock fixes.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card. Your existing addon URL and favourites carry over (config stays at sdmc:/config/StreamFin).

StreamFin v0.1.7 - subtitles addon support

You can now plug in a Stremio subtitles addon (SubSource, OpenSubtitles, or anything implementing the subtitles resource). Add one line to your switch/streamfin-addon.txt:

subtitles=https://your-subtitles-addon.example.com/...

When playback starts, StreamFin fetches subtitles for that exact title/episode and attaches them to the player - pick one under + -> Subtitle, one entry per language, alongside any subtitle tracks embedded in the file. Embedded subtitles keep working with no configuration, and nothing is auto-selected.

Updated build (2026-07-03): the attached StreamFin.nro also includes two fixes:

• Big files no longer buffer forever mid-stream - the HTTP reader now reconnects automatically when the CDN drops or throttles a long-running connection (this hit files over ~1 GB hardest), and dead reads time out after 15s instead of stalling.
• Episode lists for newly-aired shows fall back to the series backdrop when an episode still doesn't exist yet, instead of showing a grey placeholder.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card.

StreamFin v0.1.6 - better search results & less buffering

• Series no longer buried in search. Results used to list up to ~100 movies before the first series, which made shows like Love, Death & Robots look missing. Movie and series results are now interleaved by relevance, so series appear right at the top. Queries with commas/ampersands are also encoded properly now.
• Much bigger playback buffer. The default in-memory cache goes from 10 MB to 100 MB (tens of seconds of readahead even for high-bitrate streams), and network reads use larger chunks - short Wi-Fi dips no longer pause playback. Adjustable under Settings if you want a different size.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card. If you changed the cache setting before, your saved value still wins - set it to 100MB+ for the new behaviour.

StreamFin v0.1.5 - bug fixes

Three fixes from early feedback:

• Audio tracks now show their language. Files with multiple audio tracks used to list e.g. "Stereo / Stereo" (the container's track title). The picker now leads with the language ("English - Stereo", "Japanese - Stereo") and de-duplicates identical labels. Subtitles got the same treatment.
• No more stray blue line during playback. The always-on bottom progress bar is now off by default; if you liked it, re-enable it in the player's + settings menu.
• Search results no longer draw a stray line above the posters (the old header widget's underline).

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card.

StreamFin v0.1.4 - optional rated-poster providers (RPDB & custom)

Posters are now pluggable. Add a line to your switch/streamfin-addon.txt:

rpdb=YOUR_KEY

and every poster (home rows, search, favourites, continue watching, detail page) loads from RatingPosterDB with the IMDb rating baked into the artwork (free personal keys available). Or point at any provider that serves posters by IMDb id:

poster=https://your.provider/{imdbId}.jpg

With a poster provider set, the text rating badge from v0.1.3 hides automatically (no double ratings). Without one, you keep the built-in star badges from Cinemeta data. Remove the line to switch back - the file is re-read at every launch.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card.

StreamFin v0.1.3 - IMDb ratings on posters

Every poster card (home rows, search, favourites) now shows an IMDb rating badge in the corner. The data comes from Cinemeta's catalog responses that StreamFin already fetches - no extra API, no key, no additional requests.

Also includes the v0.1.1/v0.1.2 improvements: switch/streamfin-addon.txt setup (no on-screen-keyboard typing) and removal of the bogus "0.9.1 update" popup.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card.

StreamFin v0.1.2 - removes bogus update popup

Fixes the "0.9.1 is available now! Ready to update?" popup at launch. That was Switchfin's inherited auto-updater checking the upstream project's releases - the version comparison was meaningless for this fork and accepting it failed with an HTTP 404. The in-app updater is now disabled entirely; new builds come from this Releases page.

Also includes everything from v0.1.1: drop a plain-text switch/streamfin-addon.txt containing your addon URL on the SD card and StreamFin imports it at launch - no on-screen-keyboard typing.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card.

StreamFin v0.1.1 - no more typing URLs

Much easier setup: instead of typing your addon URL on the on-screen keyboard, create a plain-text file at /switch/streamfin-addon.txt on your SD card containing just the URL (one line, with or without /manifest.json). StreamFin imports it automatically at launch. Editing the file later updates the URL too.

The on-screen keyboard prompt still works as a fallback, and minus on the home screen still opens it.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card (and ideally drop the streamfin-addon.txt next to it in the same step).

StreamFin v0.1.0

First public release of StreamFin - a streaming-only Stremio client for homebrewed Nintendo Switch.

Install: copy StreamFin.nro to /switch/ on your SD card. On first launch you'll be asked for a Stremio stream addon URL (any addon implementing the stream resource; paste with or without /manifest.json). Press minus on the home screen to change it later.

Browsing, search, title details (cast, ratings, descriptions), series seasons/episodes, favourites and continue-watching all work out of the box via the public Cinemeta catalog. No content is included - streams come only from the addon you configure.

See the README for controls and build instructions.