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I suggest using an old laptop or desktop and install Kodi or Plex to solve for this.

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I did this for ages. It sucks. Maintenance, broken things all the time, bugs, ugh.

I just torrent stuff on my Mac now and use a USB stick to ship it to my dumb TV.

Dumb TV can play video from USB? That's pretty smart.

The Mac can't act as a mass storage device for the TV? That's a shame.

That’s all it can do. Has no internet connection on it.

I don’t want the two to meet. That’s where the hell starts.

I use this because the HDCP implementation on the TV is broken so it won’t play anything with any streaming boxes. I’m not throwing a perfectly good TV in the trash because of a copyright restriction.

Check out minidlna. Run on Mac and browse folders in Roku Player

That’s two more layers of things I don’t want to deal with. No networks, no servers, no clients!

I suggest a compact, fanless, low end Win10 pc with air mouse.

No ads and forget Kodi unless you happen to have a large amount of media files. Almost anything you do with Kodi as far as streaming can be done straight from the web browser.

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-x5-Z8350-Processor-Windows10-...

Controlling a Windows 10 desktop is literally the last I want to do from my couch when I can have a unified interface for nearly all my streaming needs that works perfectly well with a remote AND keyboard (people give Kodi a try ;)

Kodi also works surprisingly well as Android app :) sorrily way snappier than on the RPI (v4, 8gb ram I think) that was explicitly recommended from the kodi website :/

Which do we value more, speed of the UI or susceptibility to undesireable change? Libreelec (Kodi) on Pi4 skews away from the latter.

I have Kodi on my cheap android TV which performs much faster than on my pi. So I prefer that. My RPI even crashes from time to time, even thought it has active cooling. Elec just can turn into a resource hog, especially if you switch between apps often. I am just still pissed that I spent $150 on a pi with case for elec when it obviously isn't the optimal device. And want others to avoid the problem :)

As said somewhere else, calling home issues are just a question of your firewall / DNS setup

Which version of RPI is that?

The most recent 5 months ago. So v4 I guess, the biggest that still supports 32bit Linux which afaik is the 8gb version. There was only one more expensive.

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