Evening Lemmy,
I have run into a small hiccup in my self-hosting journey. Youtube on my TV in the living room has ads… and they become more unbearable by the day. To that end, I’d like to set up a Raspberry Pi (Or something) to run as a one-stop for media. Ideally, I’d like it to have YouTube (Or more likely NewPipe/FreeTube), Steam Link and access to my Jellyfin instance. More ideally, I’d like this to be controllable with a controller (TV Remote, Steam controller, doesn’t matter). The reason for the latter is that I’d rather not create too much trouble for my wife when she uses the TV.
I’ve done some looking, and I seem to be able to get an Amazon Firestick to run NewPipe, and Jellyfin, and maybe even the Steam Link but from the stories I’ve read it’s… less than ideal. So, I was hoping there may be an alternative.
The goal is to get all three in one system, with decently user friendly functionality.
Has anyone set something similar up, and could you point me in a direction.
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I would highly discourage getting a fire stick, they’ve locked it down so much its just annoying. Yes, you can get there but found it much easier on android tv boxes, specifically the Xiaomi Mii TV ones. Which one you get probably depends on whether you need 4K and/or dolby
Thank you for the tips! This seems like it may be a good option.
Could also run pihole or adguard on your network to just start blocking ads all across your devices as a starter step. Get an OpenWRT router to make it super easy, or just run a standalone pi as a DNS server.
I do have a pi-hole set up, but alas it won’t stop YT ads.
You could probably run Android on a Pi
Actually hadn’t though of this. Thank you!
Well I use a fire stick with smartube and jellyfin. Works just fine for my needs. YMMV
