I’ve found some discussions about hosting the Jellyfin server on lower end devices, but what about the client? I imagine the requirements to be pretty low, since a gen 2 Chromecast worked fine.

Has someone tried setting up a raspberry pi in kiosk mode? Can you suggest something cheap that would be good enough for 1080p?

  • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Has anyone done a deep dive to know for sure that it isn’t full of spyware and bloat? I’m weary of anything I can’t flash a new OS to. Or maybe they can be loaded up with a different community maintained OS?

    • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Well I know the older 2021 models could be flashed with lineageos and the 2023 might also but its not really an ideal OS for a TV and not really optimized but there is nothing really stopping you from enabling debug mode and unlocking the bootloader on it.

      I haven’t done a deep dive but I know my way around adb and disabled almost all the apps i didn’t want and I don’t notice any abnormal activity going on when its supposed to be idle for example.

      I didn’t want to link to or reddit but you can find guides on how to remov what little bloat it does come with.

      • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Thanks for the response! I’ve had my eye on these Onn devices for a while but haven’t looked into any of that stuff yet. I need to replace this old pi3 soon though because I’m tired of dealing with it not decoding h265. The new Onn ones even support AV1 from what I’ve heard.