Yes, I’m fully aware that the best way to have a streaming box is to run Linux on a Raspberry Pi, and if anyone has a guide for how to best set that up, connect to various streaming services, and allow casting from a phone then I’m very happy to check it out. However, I’ve heard Android TV boxes/sticks are still relatively customisable so I’d really just like something I can run SmartTubeNext on and cast YouTube to the TV without any ads. I’m not going to be putting much in the way of personal data on it so it’s obviously doesn’t need to be the most secure/hardened thing in the world, but I’d still rather avoid the dodgiest of boxes. Any recommendations for something cheap-ish and private-ish?

  • simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, there is a software you can install on the Pi called scrcpy (which is a terminal utility), you can get a GUI for it with guiscrcpy

    Here’s the link going over it: here

    And for the GUI part here

    I haven’t use it, so not sure how well it works. There could also be other software to support casting that I’m not aware of.

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      1 year ago

      Oh that’s pretty cool, I guess it’s only for screen mirroring and not casting video streaming apps though?