I've found some discussions about hosting the Jellyfin server on lower end devices, but what about the client? I imagine the requirements to be pretty low, since a gen 2 Chromecast worked fine.

Has someone tried setting up a raspberry pi in kiosk mode? Can you suggest something cheap that would be good enough for 1080p?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Onn TV box from walmart is $20

There is also a 15 stick version...

You could find lower end/older devices that will work too but when you can get a new 2023 box that's up to date and not full of bloatware or spyware, why would you want to risk it?

A raspi isnt what id consider low end or cheap in regards to jellyfin, but it will def work fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Has anyone done a deep dive to know for sure that it isn't full of spyware and bloat? I'm weary of anything I can't flash a new OS to. Or maybe they can be loaded up with a different community maintained OS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well I know the older 2021 models could be flashed with lineageos and the 2023 might also but its not really an ideal OS for a TV and not really optimized but there is nothing really stopping you from enabling debug mode and unlocking the bootloader on it.

I haven't done a deep dive but I know my way around adb and disabled almost all the apps i didn't want and I don't notice any abnormal activity going on when its supposed to be idle for example.

I didn't want to link to or reddit but you can find guides on how to remov what little bloat it does come with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks for the response! I've had my eye on these Onn devices for a while but haven't looked into any of that stuff yet. I need to replace this old pi3 soon though because I'm tired of dealing with it not decoding h265. The new Onn ones even support AV1 from what I've heard.