Tater Tube Core

What this core is for

Media intelligence

Behavior in the current codebase

• Pairs with Tater Tube Server and reads recent viewing activity without turning the general assistant into a media-server client.
• Can inject a bounded recent-viewing summary so Tater understands what the selected user has been watching.
• Builds AI-selected movie and series recommendations and publishes them as Tater's Picks.
• Uses the user's configured TTS path when a recommendation should be voiced.
• Recurring sync and recommendation work publishes through the Core task contract so it appears in Settings -> System Tasks.

Direct core support

This runtime component mainly handles orchestration rather than exposing its own direct Verba target.

Configuration schema

• Catalog Candidate Limit number

  Maximum launchable catalog items sent to the recommendation model.

  Key: candidate_limit Default: 200
• Context Sync Interval (sec) number

  How often Core refreshes viewing context from Tater Tube Server.

  Key: poll_interval_seconds Default: 300
• Viewing Profile text

  Server profile used for viewing context and recommendations.

  Key: profile_id Default: household
• Prompt Context Enabled checkbox

  Let Tater use compact recent viewing context when it is relevant.

  Key: prompt_context_enabled Default: True
• Prompt Context Max Characters number

  Maximum viewing-context text added to Hydra prompts.

  Key: prompt_context_max_chars Default: 2400
• Recommendation Count number

  Number of Tater's Picks to publish per batch.

  Key: recommendation_count Default: 8
• Picks Stay Fresh (hours) number

  How long a recommendation batch remains visible on players.

  Key: recommendation_expiry_hours Default: 24
• Recommendation Interval (hours) number

  How often Tater prepares a fresh recommendation batch.

  Key: recommendation_interval_hours Default: 6
• Tater Tube Voice checkbox

  Voice Tater's Picks and the one-time global Main Menu Message.

  Key: tts_enabled Default: True