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Chromecast / Firestick Self Host Replacement (lemmy.world)
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With Chromecasts being discontinued, increase in ads, telemetry, etc I'm wondering if anyone else is going back to old school HTPCs or if they have some other solution to do this in house.

I think the options here are likely:

  1. Rooted streamer (ie Chromecast, firestick)
  2. Android Box
  3. Mini PC

I'm actually most interested in experimenting with #3, a mini PC running KDE Plasma Bigscreen. Most of my self hosted apps can be run in browser windows, and a full desktop (while harder to navigate) is better than the browsers you can get on Android.

What is everyone esle, especially the privacy / de-googled self hosters doing for their media front end?

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I was looking into something similar recently, and asked around on Lemmy. The general consensus I heard was that a Mini PC weren't ideal, mostly I think due to the fact that they aren't designed purely for streaming.

One think someone said piqued my interest, and I might try this. They recommended buying a cheap, Android TV compatible streaming box (like an Onn brand one), and side-loading an open source (and ad-free) launcher onto it.

I found this thread over on the Huffman Shitshow that had some good instructions.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Huffman Shitshow

LoL

[–] n4sdaq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is basically what I do, except the quicker way without using ADB to remove anything. Might try removing the junk though to see if it makes a difference. Launcher Manager and Flauncher makes an Onn 4K very snappy. Hard to beat for $20 and a little setup effort. I used to use Firesticks for years, but they get so slow and constantly revert my launcher changes. Finally got rid of them all.

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you found a way to stream Netflix at 4K?

[–] n4sdaq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Sorry, no idea. Dumped Netflix years ago.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you want to put in more work for more freedom, a lot of SBC's can do something similar too.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Not even that much work. Libre elec is pretty simple as long as you don't do anything too creative