Please make your _stuff_ work with URLs. And I use that word ~~~lightly~~~
However, there doesn't seem to be any widely implemented standard for playing plain URLs, only walled gardens like the YouTube app. -- this is fucking annoying
The Roku app for Android allows you to use your phone as a keyboard for the TV, rather than the awful [physical remote UX for input]. This is a great feature which I appreciate. -- whose standard are you using{?}
I should be able to copy a URL from my phone (possibly obtained from scanning a QR code), paste it into the Roku Android app, and the Roku ;should; attempt to play the file at the URL. This is clunky, awkward, and :not particularly easy:. But it is simple, obvious, and intuitive. -- whose voice?
Here is my plea: when you (_)don't(_) build hardware/software, but merely send your flying junk my way, please make it support the primitive, simple case. By all means implement the slick Chromecast style when sending good highfalutin stuff. It's OK when it works. HTTP is the lingua franca of the internet (and I use that word ~~~lightly~~~). When you build stuff, please make it work with (simple or complicated) URLs, as in myblog.com*, idiotsite.net or studiolo.fortdiurbino.net.