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I tried Kodi with Libelec but it's still so jank. The Plex app is broken, there is no invidious or YouTube app I found that works. And sometimes it just "thinks" forever and I need to get up and unplug it.

I saw that Plasma Bigscreen was revived and it looks promising, but they don't have a release yet.

Are there any other options?

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[–] immobile7801@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lineageos I have several of these and they work great for the price. It is still android TV if that's an issue, but they run fine without Google services for jellyfin, kodi and smartube.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Oh cool, thanks, it works with hdmi-cec? Android is not an issue exactly, I basically just want something to replace my TV "apps" but without ads and more private.

EDIT: did not fully read the comment. I have a raspbnerry pi.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

there are decent lineageos builds for rpi btw

[–] immobile7801@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, they're different devices, roughly $30.