What optimized application do you run for the big screen and easy navigation? What about remote control?
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Album@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
N100 mini PC imo. $150 does everything.
hempster@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I haven’t done it other than for testing, but you can pair a fire Stick remote to a PC using Bluetooth and it works with Kodi.
hperrin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d recommend the Pepper Jobs windows 10 gyro remote. I’ve got two of them because they’re so great.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are those Windows only?
hperrin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. They emulate a keyboard, and use the keyboard shortcuts to do things in Windows. So they won’t work out of the box in Linux, but you can add each of the keys as a keyboard shortcut, then they’ll work.
Album@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Stremio/Plex with a Microsoft keyboard that has a touchpad built in. It’s big but you can get small ones off Amazon for $20
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyway to do this without a keyboard. I used to have a PC connected to my TV for this but eventually just bought an apple tv for simplicity.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
I have one of these: www.riitek.com/product/254.html
The back has a keyboard, the front has programmible buttons for the TV (mostly just used for on/off), and the rest is a bunch of buttons connected to the PC.
I use it with Kodi but it’s a pretty user friendly way to control it once it’s set up.
Album@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Remote control over your phone or using a Xbox controller like if it were a console. Back in the day I had an htpc remote but ability to control apps is inconsistent.
For me nothing is more simple then a PC interface. I hate having to scroll using a TV remote it takes so long to do anything and it’s quite limiting in other ways.
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Phone wouldn’t work for me, I’ve got a strict no phone around the TV rule for myself because I’m way too tempted to just use it instead of enjoying the thing I’m watching. Also wouldn’t really want to put an Xbox controller onto my wife or step mother.
I wish there was some kind of application you could run that would abstract all the mouse and keyboard interactions into a remote control friendly interface.
hperrin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. N100 mini PCs are like the Swiss Army Knife of computers. Almost as compact as a Raspberry Pi, and compatible with a lot more things.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And cost 10 times as much.
hperrin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Htpc for YouTube and gaming and native tv app plex streaming content from my plex/nas media server (pi4). Works great. Power is crazy high in California right now at over 49c /kwh so I need to boot up the htpc as little as possible.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All my current self-hosting is running off an N100 mini-PC. OPNsense, NginX, Home Assistant, Unifi Controller, Docker host, etc. They are fantastic, it just seems a bit overkill for sitting behind the TV and playing Plex/Jellyfin and the occasional web stream in a browser. There’s really not much competition though as all the products below it offer a lot older processors that don’t have very up to date HW decode.
Album@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Same. Seems like overkill when you can see what it can do. But also at that price you can velcro it to the back of your tv and it can literally do anything so have at. I don’t see a lot of better options. I use full computers personally.