I've tried at several points to roll my own media center PC/server setup and it's always been a very far cry from what the fire stick does for like a tenth the price and zero effort.
So yeah, I'm very keen for something plug and play in this space.
So yeah, I'm very keen for something plug and play in this space.
I have a repo that uses a Harbormaster (a Comppse-based deployment tool I wrote, https://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/) to set everything up and keep it up to date, so all you need to do is run the Harbormaster container, point it to the above repo config, and the apps will run. Then, you just need to configure each app, but the directories will be set up properly.
It's a bit of work, but probably not as intimidating as it sounds.
You can use Plex as a DLNA server together with a DLNA client (like players built into most TVs), so Direct Play and Direct Streaming should work just the same.
Anyways, in my country it's legal to download for personal use.