Launcher Recomendtion for media center

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨storm@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I have a raspberry pi 4 connected to the TV that I want to use for a couple different apps (jellyfin client, YouTube, display foundry battle maps) and am looking for a launcher application that could switch between these. Ideally it could be controlled by HDMI CEC (or whatever it’s called). Does anyone have suggestions for this?

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storm@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thanks for all the advice! Thinking Flex-launcher might suit my needs. Kodi with the jellyfin plugin is my current setup, definitely should have said that lol. This works very well for watching movies but not the rest of what I’m looking for

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one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I gotta give LibreElec a 👍. I’d your to can do HDMI control, then using the remote to control Kodi works by default.

Jellyfish plugin works incredibly easily too. YouTube, not so much.

I would like to put it something that over heard about the pi5, it apparently can run Android tv. Which would solve all your requirements.

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AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I know Kodi running the Jellyfin plugin on LibreELEC works great on a Pi. I’m not entirely sure if/how Kodi supports YouTube, but there are so many plugins available it seems like it must.
libreelec.tv

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- sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  YouTube support is unfortunately spotty, via the YouTube addon that they are in a constant cat and mouse game with Google. It often makes my pi overheat because of the nonsense it has to do.
  
  I wish libreelec could launch a browser with Firefox, ublock, and sponsorblock
  
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  - mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It is cat and mouse, but it’s maybe every year or so, and the issue is generally resolved the same day.
    
    The upside? No ads at all, easy 10ft interface that works great with a remote. No shitty web site to navigate with a mouse.
    
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anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Only one I’ve heward of is github.com/complexlogic/flex-launcher

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- Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wow that seems awesome!
  
  I could finally purge windows from my htpc without my SO complaining about “what happened to this windows why it is weird, I’m hating it” even though I tried to give the windows look and feel to kde
  
  First I install that on windows with taskbar hidden, then one day when the SO gets used to this launcher instead of explorer.exe, I could replace the os
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lol, that’s some dangerous waters you’re treading in.
    
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- ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There’s also plasma-bigscreen.org
  
  Although your suggestion might be more lightweight
  
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  - pirat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That looks interesting for my upcoming HTPC upgrade. Thanks for sharing.
    
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