There are even cheap Air mouses which can learn your TV remote commands, so you can throw that in a drawer and have only one remote 👍
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Dust0741@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Plasma Bigscreen. If you haven’t tried it, TRY IT.
It’s any Linux distro with KDE, plus one installed package and you get a tv interface on a computer. You can use Jellyfin with any “Air mouse” you want, and Plex htpc, plus waydroid for android apps. And worse case, is something doesn’t work, you’ve always got a normal web browser.
kossa@feddit.org 2 hours ago
djdarren@piefed.social 1 hour ago Gonna bash Debian on my 2014 Mac mini tomorrow, install Bigscreen and see what’s up.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 57 minutes ago
If you go that route (which I recommend, just finished my own install, happy with it), I recommend Waydroid-ATV.
Stormstout@piefed.social 6 hours ago
yeah i did this and it works brilliantly. An airmouse can be fairly cheap. I got an elitedesk mini from a company’s old hardware sale. It works wonders for now. An old laptop should work great (easier to find a used one with ok graphics and HDMI) but i found the mini pc formfactor to be easier to place with the tv.
cenariodantesco@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Listen do Dust0, I’ve done this with an old Mac book and works very well
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
This is they way !
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 55 minutes ago
You don’t need an air mouse, Jellyfin has a TV mode. It has to be selected in the settings.