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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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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

kodi and its derivatives are not something you should be using. it's shit software on so many levels and we should burn it in the deepest volcanos we got.

try one of these:

  1. run lineageOS TV (konstakang images) on it and install regular ATV apps for the services mentioned. so, like googletv except there's no spying and ads and shit.

  2. create a normal linux box that has a DLNA sink e.g. using macast. there's no remote control, you use your android/iOS device to send it stuff, like movie from Jellyfin or a youtube video, and it plays it back and allows some control (pause, play, rew/ff, etc)

  3. dedicated Jellyfin box; same as 2) but boots right into jellyfin client. it can be run in TV mode where it reacts to only up/down/left/right/enter/back, via gamepad or remote controller. if yours isn't recognised, you can emulate it with InputRemapper.

not familiar with how twitch does stuff.

you also have the option of installing a normal raspi distro and then using a wireless keyboard and mouse/touchpad to run it, but I am of the opinion that once the device gets placed by the TV, it loses all keyboard and mouse privileges and should only be operated via the TV's remote.

[–] kellenoffdagrid@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not very familiar with Kodi, why do you recommend against it?

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Did they fix harwarde decoding on the Konstakang build? Last I tried 4k content was unplayable.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How is this the first time I'm hearing about a lineage TV OS?!