DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD and you want passthrough

Can you elaborate on this please - what’s passthrough and dts?

I have a shield - can I use it as a server, or is it just a client?

Now, a Sony Bravia - what size and price may I ask ? And how difficult is it to remove all the shit ad functionality from it ?

I’ve had my 32" for like 8 years but definately looking for the same quality piece of kit.

Excellent! Glad you found what you wanted - I’ll bookmark this for when I have to replace my trusty Bravia! 👍

I’m dreading replacing my dumb tv, but can confirm that the nvidia shield was the best thing I ever bought for entertainment: just sideload your apps and off you go.

Take the cable out of the tv, plug it into your android box and hdmi to the tv.

Can recommend STN, cloudstream and plex.

Good luck.

Hi, on f-droid there’s an app called Android Samba Client but I can’t get it to connect to my shared folder because of permissions - it says, but I can’t find a lot of documentation about it.

Have you seen this?

I’m hoping that it’s not connecting because of something I’m doing wrong - and maybe I can figure it out later (poss. because of my lack of understanding on my part of the way plex should share permissions with other devices).

If you get anywhere further, please let me know. - it just doesn’t seem to be a well covered topic unfortunately.

Yeah, sorry - I misunderstood you. The link is good, thanks for providing it. Some of it is a little above my head, but when I look at X-plore and my plex server I can see in the properties that it’s using smb V2 to connect.

So, I guess the means of permanently having a remote drive connected for Android to access isn’t a pipe dream. It’s now just figuring out the best way to achieve it.

So, I’ll try to explore some of that links info and see if I can get anywhere with it.

Thanks again for taking the time.

I’m thinking maybe mount as you say using Xplore and bring in Syncthing to move the file across onto the server. Thanks for the idea.

Who gives a fucking shit about x fucking twitter? - let’s hope it crashes along with reddit !

PS cross post all the good stuff onto lemmy first - then just let it burn and sink!

Joplin syncs with Nextcloud - Orgzly does too. Agreed, Jtxboard does - via davx5.

I’m currently using obsidian synced via syncthing. I know it’s not Nextcloud, but it works well and has a nice interface and lots of plug-ins - even on Android. It might be able to sync - not bothered trying to yet - if anyone has, please comment.

Good luck with your search.

I only ever lurked on Reddit and here on Lemmy I’m trying to be more of an active participant.

Same here, and now I’m soo glad that I jumped that shit ship.

Thanks for the reply. I like obsidian at the moment: I can sync across all my devices - using Syncthing, so it’s very workable for me. I guess whichever editor works for you is good - though I must admit obsidian is a bit too overloaded for me, but I’ll persist as the Syncthing works well. I’ll try to simplify it with minimal plugins.

Also I have plain text editor and I have a txt file shared with my computer

Hi, can you share the name of your plain text editor? I use aCalendar+ and opentasks synced via davx5 on Nextcloud.

Hi, not sure if this will work on roku, but it does fine on my nvidia, /u/Metigoth mentioned STN (SmartTubeNext) - it’s on github. You could download the apk and try side loading it. Edit: gotta get used to linking better.

Yeah, I’d actually made a comment on that thread (duh). I guess before I realised how good / useable Syncthing was.

Edit: grammar

Excellent! Got it installed now and it seems to work. It was the prompt bit I was getting confused with - I thought that I’d need to have both folders under the same structure on both machines. This is a brilliant app. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Interesting, would you mind explaining how I could use it to connect 2 (or more) android devices together? Where would it have to be run ‘from’ or installed ‘to’ ? From what I’ve gathered, it appears that it just runs from a central point - ie a server and that it keeps clients updated. Is that not correct?

If it’s possible to run Syncthing between multiple devices that would be great, but, I’m not sure - in my head, how this functions between devices. Consider me a novice - could you please explain?

Many thanks for your reply.

Just to clarify then: you use a home server - are you running Syncthing on Linux?

So, if I have an old laptop (win10) would I need to learn linux to use it as an home server - and could it use minimal power when it’s always on? The power thing is an issue here in UK.

I have a nvidia shield for the tv, is that a possibility for a server - I go run plex on it?

These might sound to you like daft questions, but I’m just learning stuff. Thanks.

Not sure if this will help you stick with orgzly, but it synced very well with Nextcloud. Must admit Nextcloud was easy, so didn’t need to manually sync it any other way.

Hope you find what you’re looking for though.

That sounds really cool. I currently sync obsidian via a hosted solution on Hetzner using webdav. I’m wondering if I might be able to utilise it somehow as you have - maybe I won’t need to intervene as much.

Thanks for the advice.

Does your method use cloud storage? If not, can you please explain to me just how it works across multiple devices?