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So how do you interact with the jellyfin server from your HTPC?
Using the native Jellyfin app available for Amazon's fire tv stick.
Fire stick is not a HTPC
Why not? It's a computer that displays tv? At 4k, 5.1 audio, that's not too shabby, no?
I made a PC specifically for streaming video back before sticks were a thing, but it was expensive, noisy and not very good in comparison and I don't miss it. What about a stick is inferior to what you're talking about? Genuine question - educate me, please. What software, what hardware, why choose it over something else?
A few things for me:
Kodi works very well for me with a local library. Serving it from Jellyfin was a mess (Jellycon). I think primarily this is a Kodi problem as really it should support DLNA servers much much better, and then a add-on wouldn't be needed.
Fair play - it's good that there's choice and if it works for you, great. I also totally get the fun of building something yourself.
The local storage is a big one if you don't have a nas or home server on the network. Although, if you're linked into the *arrs then I would think most people already do. It's nice when new episodes just turn up automagically in Jellyfin.
I tried Kodi before but I found the commercialisation of it very jarring. Jellyfin is entirely free - your fifth point might give it extra credit for that. The Jellyfin app doesn't (afaik) feed any info to anyone, but you do need to load it from the Amazon fire menu, so you can't entirely skip their advertising. It is the only thing I use the fire stick for, and the price is cheap compared to anything else - it cost £25 and works on any TV. Being a dongle, there's no noise either.
Kodi isn't commercialised. I'm not sure what you're referring to. It's open source and always has been.
I also have the *arrs running on that same box so new episodes appear automatically. They require a browser or other client, so I didn't include it in my list. They just run in the background.