Arbitrary applications isn’t a TVOS like the original poster asked for, it’s a general purpose OS.
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MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 8 months agoNo. Librelec is just kodi. I’m looking for something that can start arbitrary applications behind an overlay like SteamOS or AndroidTV. I don’t want to use the buggy Plex or Jellyfin plugin for Kodi.
richmondez@lemmy.world 8 months ago
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 8 months ago
You mean like AndroidTV or TvOS?
richmondez@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can you install arbitrary apps on androidtv or only what is available in the appstore for it without jumping through hoops that possibly involve some command line shenanigans? Similar to how you can install plugins in kodi in libreelec from the official repos perhaps but have to jump through hoops for arbitrary programs? Your real issue then is that libreelec’s ecosystem isn’t as vibrant perhaps and that it doesn’t run on locked down hardware the user doesn’t really control so the media companies allow high quality streaming to them?
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Just to stave off anyone else coming in and going “ackshuallee”… it’s true that you could technically do that with libreELEC. It’d be a fool’s errand of using SSH to get to the terminal and install all the programs and dependencies, and you’d still need some way to do arbitrary terminal commands from the kodi menu (I think there are plugins for that and for launching arbitrary programs though).
I played around with that myself for a few hours and gave up.
I’d love something actually good, but the closest you’ll get probably is running Kodi or whatever media frontend you want on top of a stripped down “normal” OS, with a separate frontend for games/programs like HyperSpin. Find a way to launch one from the other and you’d be set.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 8 months ago
I was planning to look into Plasma Big screen. That looks somewhat promising