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Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by scrooge101@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a headless raspberry PI 4 8GB connected to my TV setup with Kodi and the Jellyfin add-on. Now I would like to have a convenient option to watch Youtube in a privacy-friendly way on the TV.

The experience should be similar to Freetube: creating playlists, search videos, follow subscribed channels. I don't mind running it either directly on the PI or install it on my server.

Thanks for any recommendations of what you folks use!

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[–] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If you have an Android TV device, SmartTube is fantastic. It’s highly configurable and blocks ads out of the box

[–] postman@literature.cafe 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm terrified some day it'll stop working and I'll have to go back to regular YouTube!

[–] scrooge101@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have an LG with WebOS which is also not connected to the internet. So that's unfortunately not an option.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Buy a $20 Android TV box from Walmart and install Smarttube on it.

[–] Samiaouuu@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He wants privacy from YouTube, pretty sure that he doesn't want Walmart to steal his data either

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Walmart doesn't make the box so more like Google or China.

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Nobody makes their own boxes, everything you love to play with either gets designed, fabricated, or packaged in to boards, or assembled, in China.

So tired of the casual racism of "this brand good, but that brand bad, because China." I know you didn't mean something malicious by it, but we've got to do better.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There is an ATV LineageOS image available for the 2021 Onn for anyone who wants to go that route https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/dopinder/

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

I also have an LG TV. I bought an external Android TV box (Nvidia Shield) and now primarily use that as the interface.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Would a Roku work? Forgive my ignorance, not sure if they count as android based

[–] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Roku uses a custom OS unfortunately

[–] brewery@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Please nobody buy roku. It's become full of ads and monitoring.