A separate box with apps that work better and just use the one remote.
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Sepix@feddit.org 2 days agoBut what do you use instead? The onboard apps work well and having two remotes always sucked.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
not_me@piefed.social 2 days ago
I usually use my graphene smartphone connected with adapter cable usb c to hdmi on television.
Hule@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Do you happen to know a guide about setting that up?
not_me@piefed.social 2 days ago
Grapheneos can currently only be installed on a google pixel phone, info can be found on yt. Buy a USB-C to HDMI cable. Costs about 22 euros Look for mirror casting setting on your phone. Recently bought a pixel 8 pro and everything works Everything related to TV and music can be found on https://fmhy.net/
djdarren@piefed.social 2 days ago
I use an Apple TV with mine. You can control the TV and soundbar from its one small remote.
humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I have a Frame connected to an Apple TV. I’ve never let the Frame online to do anything. Its been perfect so far. The day it sneaks itself online through some means is the day it will probably go in the trash. I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of sludge it would download and wrap itself in if given half the chance.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But then isn’t there a worry about Apple tracking everything?
djdarren@piefed.social 2 days ago
Everyone is tracking everything anyway, but having been a user of Apple products since 2007, they’ve got what they can on me.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah I guess the better question is which device is best and who’s the better company to allow to track you. If I create an apple TV account with a user name that is a RNG and all fake information, do they even gain anything?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 days ago
I only use the Nvidia Shield remote. It obviously does everything on the Shield, plus tv on/off, and volume. Then I remapped the Netflix button on it to open a little quick actions menu to select brightness/picture mode levels.
Haven’t touched the lg remote since
crossover@lemmy.world 2 days ago
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is a fascinating article. As someone who has never owned an apple device in my life out of principle, this is actually making me consider one.
harmbugler@piefed.social 1 day ago
I have two AppleTVs and while they are great at what they do, I won’t buy another. The reason is that they are still locked down to what Apple allows you to do. Want to watch YouTube? Your only realistic option is Google’s app, complete with ads. If you connect a real computer to the TV, you have significantly more control over what’s going on, but you may lose some of the convenience of a dedicated TV device. Hopefully with things like the GabeCube, more Linux OSes will be dedicated to big screen TV use.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nvidia Shield or chromecast. Two remotes is really not a big deal.
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Would you connect it to the internet with all its consequences to be able to use one remote instead of two?
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 days ago
just block it from being able to reach wan AND wan from being able to reach it
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I know, but OP says they want to use onboard apps and don’t want to use two remotes.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Literally any device plugged into a dumb screen is better than a smart TV.
The hardware on a smart TV is typically absolute trash. It’s why they’re so slow.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Chromecast
Mertn33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have an lg TV. Never use it’s remote.
mcforest@feddit.org 2 days ago
Thanks to HDMI-CEC you can control additional media players with your TV’s remote. Sometimes it might not be perfect for things like long presses and stuff, but for basic controls it works.
That’s my experience with an Nvidia Shield and a Raspberry with KODI. I wouldn’t really recommend the Raspberry though.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
So long as the GabeCube is at a decent price it is going to be my TV’s media center. My old plan of building a new main rig and repurposing my old rig with an arc B580 upgrade went out the window for my budget when ram prices went through the roof.
Canuck@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Install KDE Plasma Big Screen, Waydroid Android TV, and you’ll be golden
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Modern replacement as a kodi box for both shield and pi is ugoos am6b+. ~120$ on aliexpress (probably more with tariffs) and once you flash it with coreelec it can natively playback pretty much any format except av1. You still dual boot to android so can also run all the streaming apps too, if you want, and the android is really stripped back vs the shield (especially the later releases where ad bullshit creeped in quite a bit) though not fully degoogled because the play store is still present.
Main downside is some issues with hdmi-cec. It works 99% but power on doesn’t when in coreelec. Ugoos locked the bootloader for some reason and refuses to unlock it. Fixes for this depend on equipment and use scenario. Some people on the forum that watch tv a lot just disable power on/off cec and leave it running 24/7, it’s pretty low power. I have an avr that works with hdmi-cec and home assistant so I have hdmi-cec on/off turned on, it will turn off when I turn the tv off with remote, and when I turn the tv on the avr turns on via CEC then home assistant sends a wake-on-lan packet to the device, which turns it on. A bit of a delay, but works.
Only device on the market that can properly play back Dolby vision though, including commercial bluray players. If you download 2160p remux with the dv layer for lg oled this is literally the only thing that plays it back correctly. Alternatively just get hdr rips