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Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by nix98@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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My jellyfin collection has finally become large enough that I have been able to cancel all my streaming services. My issue now is that I want to get rid of my Roku's that are hooked up to each TV.

Is there a good alternative? It MUST be family approved, meaning:

It is not visible (no desktop/laptop hooked up)
It is low power
It has a simple remote control
It supports Jellyfin
It is relatively cheap (< $150)

I am sure I could build something out of a raspberry pi, but:

I don't need another project I have to fiddle with
It MUST support new codecs (h.265/AC1/aac/...) as I want direct play from my server
If it stutters/buffers once, it goes into the trash!

I've generally been mostly happy with my Roku, and my pi.hole blocks most of their analytics, but last week, I pressed the home button on my Roku and it started play a video add with audio. Completely unacceptable (That has happened twice in the last week). And in general, the more of this crap I can get out of my life the better!

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For my parents, I got a $150 N100 mini PC (tiny little thing), installed Bazzite, installed Jellyfin, and got the Pepper Jobs W10 Gyro remote. You have to configure Jellyfin to know it’s running on a TV and to accept keyboard input (the remote acts like a keyboard), but then everything works great. It’s a little over your budget, with the added remote.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent - thanks for the remote recommendation, it's one thing I've been struggling to find.

Not sure I like the gyro idea - I had a gyro presentation mouse in the past. Worked well, but how do your parents like the gyro element?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

They don’t use it unless my dad is watching a perfectly legal sports stream in the browser. It works really well though. I have 3 of those remotes, cause I love them.

[–] ssdfsdf3488sd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit I tried your way and it works better but is slightly more annoying to setup than running a nixos update (but only slightly more and making the nixos config file was a pain in the arse).

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Bazzite is a gaming OS, isn't that very user unfriendly? Or do you auto start Jellyfin on startup? Or are your parents just... not boomers?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bazzite runs the SteamOS interface. It’s extremely user friendly. It’s designed to look like a console.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

You have no idea what 'user friendly' can mean for boomers. A button that says "Next" is already something that need to be talked about explicitly