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Jellyfin/YT/Twitch TV box (Raspberry pi 4) (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I had a Rapsberri Pi 4 (4GB) laying around and installed kodi/libreelec to use it with my TV.

I need it to do 3, maybe 4 things, but the experience was rather underwhelming.

  1. Jellyfin client I run a jellyfin server on my NAS. The jellyfin add-on needs several seconds or even a minute plus to load the content of big folders.

Jellycon has a different approach, but doesn't let me browse folders, which is a must for me (I use pinchflat to download some videos from YouTube channels. They are organized in folders)

  1. YouTube Ideally I would love a freetube client for watching one off videos or finding a video on a certain topic. The YouTube add-on requires API access, sadly.

  2. Twitch The add-on works great.

  3. Remote I have a IR Mini Keyboard that works great with Kodi/libreelec

I was considering installing a lightweight Linux distro and installing freetube and a browser for twitch and jellyfin.

Does anyone use similar hardware? Is there a better solution for my use case?

(If there is a better affordable hardware solution, I'm interested as well)

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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use a rPi3 for this stuff exactly. I have about 300 movies in the folder (I know it sounds like a rookie number but I keep only stuff I know it will be watched) and kodi (through jellyfin addon) only takes a few seconds to load. My jellyfin server is not on the nas itself, it's on a separate docker server for hw transcoding on the fly (and the nas has hdd drives).

I used the piped addon for youtube.

I use kore app on my phone to control kodi. Been working like this for about 7 years.

[–] minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the info.

I used the piped addon for youtube.

I have been using piped and invidious in the past as well, but with youtube cracking down more and more I have trouble finding usable instances at all. Hence my switch to freetube, which mostly works so far.

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I host my own instance of piped, that solves a problem 😅