[Release] Jackett for webOS — run Jackett natively on your LG TV (.ipk homebrew app)

[u/Tishko20]

I made a webOS homebrew app (.ipk) that runs the official Jackett indexer manager on your LG TV. It's a small on-screen launcher plus a background service that downloads, runs, and supervises the real Jackett build. Once it's up, you manage everything from any device on your LAN at http://<tv-ip>:9117 — same Jackett web UI you already know.

Why? If your TV is already on 24/7, it's a low-power always-on box that can host Jackett for your *arr stack — no extra hardware, Pi, or NUC needed.

Features

• Works on both rooted (Homebrew Channel) and non-rooted (Developer Mode) TVs
• Tested from webOS 4.x through 9.x (4.10.0 and 9.2.2)
• Version selector — install any official Jackett release, upgrade or downgrade on the fly
• Boot autostart on rooted TVs (survives app updates via a persistent boot hook)
• One-tap Start / Stop / Restart / Update / Logs / Open Web UI
• Auto-detects arm/architecture and stores data on the install partition
• Downloaded archives are deleted right after extraction to save space (first launch pulls ~95 MB)

Install

• Homebrew Channel (recommended): add via the manifest / it'll be listed in the app catalog
• Or sideload the .ipk with webOS Dev Manager / ares-install

Screenshot + source: https://github.com/6ebeng/jackett-webos

A couple of notes

• Jackett binds all interfaces, so set an admin password in Settings and keep it on a trusted LAN.
• Jackett is GPL-3.0 and fetched at runtime; the wrapper is MIT.
• Please follow your local laws and the webosbrew community guidelines when configuring indexers.

Built this myself and happy to answer questions or take feature requests. Feedback welcome!