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Good day! I am trying to find a good alternative as not to use the"smart" functions or using an Xbox to consume our media. I found a few options ie like plasma big screen but it's no longer in development. Essentially I would line love to have it running on an rpi4 and just hooked up to the TV.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] RobertoMorrison@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've done that and as long as you don't need one of the mainstream streaming apps, it seemed to work well . Just give it a try. It's not a lot of work.

Edit: As far as I remember it, it didn't have (the needed?) DRM support

Edit2: Tested on RPi5

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't need or want DRM so I can't comment on that.

What I can say is that the RPI5 is way overkill. I originally ran Kodi on a RPI4 but it was constantly running hot so I switched to a RPI3 and it is much better.

[–] RobertoMorrison@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yea, I only mentioned that because I did only test on that PI, it was more of a disclaimer. For me, DRM is also not important.