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It's my birthday, and I want the upscaling, the single platform, the flexibility (sailing the high seas), but it's soooo old. $200? IDK

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But can you completely copy the UX of a shield pro with raspberry pi?

I mean, I can grab the TV's remote, or the shields remote, and whichever I turn on, both of them turn on. It also wakes up from sleep faster than the TV turns on. I can use the TV's remote to control the shield. Basically it works completely transparently.

It also makes it work really nice with android phones. I can cast spotify, youtube, google photos, or the screen onto the TV, and it works better than the TV's cast with the apps.

I used Plex and while it worked nice for most of the time, I got fed up with it trying to steer me away from local streaming, and having a hard time finding my way back to it in the therrible UI. I set up Jellyfin and couldn't be happier, HDR, Dolby Vision, 4K streaming just works perfectly.

The UI is much faster than a flagship LG TV too...

What I'm asking is... is it possible to set up an RPi to work this seamlessly and user friendly? With apps like netflix, hbo max, jellyfin, etc, with a remote and nice and easy UI so anyone can use it on their first try?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are IrDA adapters which can let it react to your remote, so yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The UX wouldn't be a problem. Transcoding may be, though.