Live TV, OTA/DVB tuners, IPTV, EPG/XMLTV guide sync, DVR, and .strm
remote-URL shortcuts are permanently out of scope for Silo. The
deciding factor is app store distribution: the first-party iOS, tvOS,
macOS, and Android clients ship through Apple and Google, and a server
that plays arbitrary remote stream URLs puts the entire client suite at
risk of rejection or takedown, not just the feature. Secondarily, live
TV is a separate product surface whose reliability burden competes with
the core playback path.
This was an undocumented boundary until now, and contributors spent real
effort against it (#419, #420, #474). Write it down in docs/non-goals.md
and summarize it in AGENTS.md so both humans and agents see it before
proposing or implementing in this area.
Refs #474, #419, #295
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
