I’ve seen a couple articles about an android tv alternative and it’s got me thinking about a streaming box again. A while back i gave kodi a try and didn’t care for the experience. Granted, it was on a pi so expectations were low but it missed the mark for me. This time around i’ve got a modest nuc with proxmox i was thinking of moving to the living room and standing up a fresh vm of kodi to stream to.
I could just access the files over the network but i’m already running both plex and jellyfin so why not use either for my watch history. All that being said is kodi still my best bet?
Why proxmox? At some point down the road i’d like to get a capture card in the mix to stream games and that feels like the most flexible way to do everything.
Pi4 just streaming Jellyfin, nothing fancy.
didn’t know infuse had a lifetime cost but look how that’s working out for plex.
I would rather ssh into a linux box I own to bash my head against bluetooth compatibility issues than have everything just work while a company sells every last bit of data they can steal from me.
As an old IT guy I empathize with the control of data. I have my array of self-hosted servers and love my CLI.
With that said, the older I get the less patience I have for hacking it together and supporting it. I still prefer privacy, and indeed Firecore Infuse is “Private by design” by their own statement. It’s not open source and I am not clear if it’s audited, but for as long as it lasts I’m happy friends and family less technically inclined have a simple easy familiar interface which I don’t have to support.
I will say I’m impressed A Pi4 works so well for jellyfin streaming. I guess it’s not transcoding, so it’s just a database and file share.
While I’ve used the pi as a media server before and it did admirably I think you have the wrong idea, it’s just a set top client. A Pi Zero could probably do just as well or pretty much anything that can run Kodi … which rules out AppleTV sadly.
and I’m right there with you not supporting other peoples tech. My parents Chromecast got a PiHole exemption because screw explaining why they’re watching a static screen for 3 minutes where ads used to be … every time; if their tv app even loads without phoning home in the first place.