Meanwhile, Roku keeps making more money.
  • nul9o9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 years ago

    It was my favorite UI between firestick, android tv, and roku. I’m seriously bummed out by what they’ve been doing.

    Last time I asked it seemed like open source streaming box OS’s aren’t a thing.

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        I am living that dream right now and it’s pretty sweet. Tied into my jellyfin and emby setup. Personal photo screensaver, integration with my control platform, can run some emulators. And add-ons for some services.

        I can’t get prime video to work but that’s not terrible, I do wanna watch fallout though.

        I need to figure out a way to dual boot to Blissos easily on the fly.

        But yeah LibreELEC has made me proud

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I recently got rid of my TV box from my ISP (around here it tends to be bundled, but I found a cheaper data only ISP) and of a separate media box I had to play my collection of videos in digital files that were stored in a NAS and even the old NAS setup (which was just improvised with some external HDs connected to my router and used the older SMB v1 protocol which is much slower than more recent versions) and brough everything onto a single device which is a Mini PC with Lubuntu and Kodi which even has so additional stuff in it like an always on VPN and web controlled Torrent download server.

          I never had a this good and this well integrated home entertainment setup before.

          That’s basically a “make your own” version of LibreElec, but I didn’t recomend it above because that Mini PC was $150 and you do need to know your way around Linux to set something like that up yourself (plus the added value to make it worth it is in being able to hand more server services in that machine, such as Torrent downloading over that always on VPN) whilst LibreElec is a pre-assembled full solution and is also available for much cheaper devices.

          But yeah, it’s actually pretty amazing how far open source home entertainment solutions have come in just a decade (which is how old my setup with a dedicated media box and NAS was before this restructuring of the whole thing to modern tech).

          PS: Oh, and by the way, it’s possible to get a wireless remote control (about $4 from AliExpress) that works absolutelly fine with Linux and lets you control Kodi by remote just like you would control a dedicated TV Box.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    Man Roku’s just getting worse and worse. I used to love my Roku years ago. Thought it was crazy I would have a fire stick because Roku was so much better. Those days are gone. Well mostly I still hate Fire Sticks.

  • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    I factory reset my roku TV and now keep it offline. I have a laptop with Ubuntu hooked up to it.

    • blackwateropeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Same, im gunna hook up a pi5 to it soon. Crazy how much faster the Roku UI is when it’s not bloated with all that crap

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, but I’ve been using the Jellyfin app on the Roku for my older “dumb” TVs, so I’m just fracked at this point.

      That said, the webOS Jellyfin app is finally available for all webOS TVs, so at least I can go straight to JF on one TV.

    • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      I can’t believe the company that puts ads on the remote would do this to me.

  • neuroneiro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’ve had the displeasure of using a Roku TV while put up by insurance since a truck drove into our garage in January, after a couple hotel stays.

    I’m sure it’s a few years old but there can’t be more than 8mb of RAM.

    • StV2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      The software is so bloated and sluggish on mine

      I really wish software developers were actually allowed to ship decent firmware for stuff rather than just running a gigantic bloated os to effectively just decode and display video