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> I am never gonna give WiFi access to my TV.

I had XBMC hooked up to my TV with samba share years before smart TVs were really popular.

I really liked wifi tv then, and I really like it now. Improved my life.

That's a much more legit use case. I plan on buying the latest RPi and install KODI on it, and hook it to my TV. Complemented with my router using Pi-Hole (RPi-based DNS server that filters out ads and tracking) I am pretty certain that it's gonna be pretty seamless and much better experience than the "smart TV software".

I have the same, Raspberry Pi with kodi pulling from a samba share on an ubuntu server.

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