How it works
One tap. The whole room responds.
MediaPond brings your media sources and room equipment together into one interface. Select a show, and MediaPond handles device power, input switching, and app launching automatically.*
The launch sequence, step by step
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Browse streaming services and local media libraries in one unified catalog. Pick a title and choose a room.
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MediaPond powers on your TV, including supported LG and Sony sets in deep standby.
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On supported models, the TV switches directly to the correct HDMI input and powers up your streaming device.
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MediaPond launches the appropriate app and opens your selected show or movie directly.
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The Now Playing dock manages playback, volume routes to active speakers, and room lights adjust from the same screen.
The bridge
One unified hub for all your streaming and local media.
Traditional remote apps only push buttons at a screen. MediaPond provides a unified catalog that brings together streaming subscriptions, YouTube, and local media libraries into a single UI.
Your phone or tablet serves as the central hub where media discovery meets room control. Once you select a title, MediaPond sends it to your TV or streaming player and opens it directly inside the target app.
By connecting content discovery directly to hardware control, MediaPond eliminates the need to switch apps or juggle multiple remotes.
Setup
What does MediaPond find on my network?
Televisions, streamers, speakers and lights that answer on your local network, which today means supported LG and Sony sets, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV and Google TV devices, Zidoo players, Sonos speakers and Govee lights over Matter. The app scans for them, you confirm the ones you want, and each one goes into the room it lives in.
Some devices need a one-time handshake before they will take orders, such as a prompt accepted on an LG television, a code shown on an Apple TV or an Android TV device, or a control switch turned on inside a Sony’s settings. You do each of those once, with the device’s own remote.
Anything you already sorted out elsewhere can be imported rather than re-entered, so devices from Google Home or from Home Assistant come across with their names and rooms intact.
Rooms
Why does room-based control matter?
Because a house is not really a list of devices. The television, the streamer, the speakers and the lamps in one room work as a single instrument, and almost everything you want to do involves several of them at once.
Once a room is described, MediaPond can act on the room instead of the box, so one tap powers its devices on, the volume buttons find whatever is making the sound, and the remote adapts to what is on screen. Move to another room and the control surface moves with you.
It is also what keeps a house with four televisions coherent. You are choosing a room, which you can see and stand in, rather than choosing between four device names you invented eighteen months ago.
While it plays
What can I do once it is running?
A persistent Now Playing dock carries the current title, artwork, progress and transport controls for each room, including play, pause, seek and volume, from anywhere in the app, so you do not have to go back and find the device you started from.
How much detail arrives depends on the device, because an Apple TV pushes changes as they happen while a television that only reports its foreground app gives you rather less. Where a device reports nothing, MediaPond fills in from what it launched, so the dock still shows the title you chose rather than going blank.
Volume follows the room rather than a device, so where a room has Sonos speakers carrying the sound, Premium can point the room’s volume buttons at the speakers that are currently playing instead of at a panel that is muted anyway.
Requirements
What do I need to run it?
A phone or a tablet, and supported devices on the same Wi-Fi, which is the whole list. There is no hub to buy, no bridge to plug in behind the television, no IR blaster, and no account to create.
MediaPond runs on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets, and it is at its best on a tablet that stays in the room, because the layout is built for a hub screen that stays put rather than for something you dig out of a pocket.
Control traffic stays on your network, so the remote keeps working when your internet connection does not. The privacy page is short and specific about the one thing that does go out, which is streaming catalog lookups, and the terms of service set out what we can and cannot promise about equipment we did not build.
Also worth reading
- LG TVswebOS · wake, power, input, volume, app launch
- Android TV & Google TVShield, Chromecast · deep links, now playing, cold starts
- Sonos speakersTransport, volume routing, audio format
Devices and services MediaPond supports · How a room comes up · Questions and answers
Not every device or streaming app supports direct launching. MediaPond makes a good-faith, best-effort attempt to open content in the right app, and falls back to opening the app itself where a direct link is not available. Availability varies by device, app, region, and your subscriptions.
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