Yeah, that’s what I finally settled on. My only gripe is that it doesn’t sync with the homescreen/launcher.
My initial test with Kodi gave me xbmc flashbacks, and felt like I had gone back in time. But a more modern skin and different ui sounds make a huge difference
Sadly, phone/tablet only at this point. I may give it a go anyway, but I’m not expecting much bc it’s meant for touch, not keyboard/remotes
This is actually a great theory. I’ve fixed several monitors and TVs that were just bad capacitors. It’s a logical conclusion with these, too.
I have my old Athlon fx lying around. Needs a case, psu, and the nic… Hmmmm
Yeah, those little micro units are what I had seen recommended. $300-400 is definitely pushing it for me. Especially when I would also want a bigger switch to accompany it.
Guess I need to stop eating avocado toast.
Edit: how is the stability/uptime for those little machines? Historically, I’ve always had problems with my routers needing to be rebooted at least once a month after they’ve been in service for 18-24 months. Even my current “business class” cisco router is crapping out on me every month.
I’m already using my own modem, none of that locked-down rental nonsense from my isp.
What hardware do you use for pf/opnSense? All of the recommended stuff I’ve seen is almost prohibitively expensive for my home networking budget.
I feel like it’s just me, but all of my devices with Open/DDWRT crap out after a couple years. Even well-reviewed prosumer-grade gear ends up becoming wildly unreliable in an unacceptably short amount of time. I had to double-check, and my order history puts me at a new router every 2-3 years. This “business class” RV260 will be hitting 2 years in the fall, and I’m already experiencing wonky behavior where it needs to be rebooted regularly. Maybe it’s just an unspoken truth that anything below true “enterprise tier” kit requires a weekly reboot. I should just put it on an outlet to cycle the power every Sunday at 2am or something…
That said, I do love DDWRT!
100%. I have some function nodes to do things in JS, especially for date checking. And I think you can even get it to call shell scripts? I’m sure there’s an add-on that would do it.
Agreed that it really is a pleasant experience.
I’m intending to upgrade to a pfSense router and some other switch in the future. This is just supposed to be a temporary-ish investigation into the potential fuckery coming from my ISP.
I’ve been using nodered with homeassistant for a few years, and have also used it to add minor integrations for some external apps to send push notifications through HA.
On the surface, nodered looks like “programming for non-programmers”, and I’ve seen it get knocked for that. It’s really not that at all. Yes, it’s a node-based system and you’re not “writing code” but it’s very robust and can do a heck of a lot. I highly recommend folks check it out, it’s a pretty powerful little system, and I’ve been running it on my ancient amd fx-6300 server (along side a bunch of other docker containers) without any noticeable system slowdown.
Ah. Good to know! I’m starting to dive down this rabbit hole, and we’ll see where it takes me. Thanks :)
Yeah. It’s weird. Sometimes a show will pop up to load via jellyfin, which I didn’t use.
There are still some design choices in Kodi that I don’t like (e.g. media continues playing in the background, and messes up the home navigation), but I just need to search their wiki for answers.