This is sort of the route I was considering, so it’s cool to know that someone has tread the path before me.
shellington@piefed.zip 1 week ago
I was using Nvidia Shields but wanted to get away from Android. Over the summer i bought some Dell mini pcs, put the Plasma Bigscreen OS on them and got some USB remote controls.
These have been working really well and is nice to have them running linux. The tv interface is really good and for the few apps that didn’t have linux versions i just made my own.
I use mine mainly for plex (which has an app) Youtube (vacummtube) and made my own apps to access tube archivist, odysee archivist and stash. So i guess it depends what you watch on it.
djdarren@piefed.social 1 week ago
shellington@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Well honestly I have been using them for a few months now and they have worked flawlessly.
What kind of services do you tend to want to watch through them?
Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
How are you getting over 720p from streaming apps?
shellington@piefed.zip 1 week ago
depends on the apps vacuum tube (youtube 4k) plex 4k, also discovered a new use for it too. Wanted to play some ps1 games but can’t find the power lead for it, so after searching fruitlessly installed duckstation plugged in a usb controller and it works great. Best £60 i have ever spent such a versatile and reliable thing.
Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Okay so you aren’t using streaming services
That’s the issue with htpc they limit to 720p if not using their apps which they’ve removed from pcs and now only mobile
shellington@piefed.zip 1 week ago
Yeah i am trying to go as open source as possible to avoid this kind of crap, plex is the only closed source thing i still use and that will be replaced by Jellyfin soon.