I tried Kodi with Libelec but it’s still so jank. The Plex app is broken, there is no invidious or YouTube app I found that works. And sometimes it just “thinks” forever and I need to get up and unplug it.

I saw that Plasma Bigscreen was revived and it looks promising, but they don’t have a release yet.

Are there any other options?

  • Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1 day ago

    I never tried it but, LibreELEC is focused for mediastreaming usage.
    You just need to get confy with Kodi and it’s plugins.

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I mentioned in the post that I did try LibreELEC but the Plex plugin is very buggy and there is no functioning youtube plugin.

      • Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one
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        13 hours ago

        I wasn’t going to reply, but when I thought about it, you can install wayland on top of linux.
        The kind of benefit you’re getting out of this is better driver support (from the kernel) & less resource usage (lightweight distro + wayland on background = 2GB~ish ram usage).
        Also it’d be easier to get Gapps running (if you need it) on waydroid rather than rooting lineageOS TV to do so.
        I tried it once & it was more than enough for light gaming, IDK about plex but hardware acceleration is supported since there’s no VM tech utilized (nividia isn’t supported tho).

        Most linux distros with wayland should be enough, but check Wayland install page just to be sure it’s well supported (by distro), I see void-linux & ether configured labwc or KDE plasma should fit your needs better.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Android TV is FOSS, but given Google’s recent announcement I wouldn’t take it’s future openness for granted.

    That said, I think it’s the best FOSS OS for TVs.

  • StrangeAstronomer@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I use mythtv (FOSS) and it’s fine as a PVR (schedule, record and playback broadcast TV) with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun network-attached tuner. It also has playback for downloaded files but I prefer to use mpv for that. Mine is still connected to the internet and I use firefox/transmission for youtube and other functions.

    No idea about plex or jellyfin.

  • immobile7801@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Lineageos I have several of these and they work great for the price. It is still android TV if that’s an issue, but they run fine without Google services for jellyfin, kodi and smartube.