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Help me trash my FireTV stick (feddit.it)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello sailors,

as a long time FireTV stick un-enjoyer, I finally decided that the time has come to get rid of this piece of crap I was baited into buying because of the low price. The number of streaming services keeps increasing (splitting content among different servives) and each and every one of them is demanding for an increasing amount of money for a monthly subscription; "buy this movie only" services dont actually give you shi except for the right to stream it for as long as it stays in their library, even though af course you pay 13,99 as if it was a physical copy of a movie. In addition to that, the FireTV is now completely filled with ads. I am tired of this shitty customer treatment, im sailing.

I am not experienced into local media-sharing and management, so I am looking for advice... What's my best move to replace it?

I thought a good idea would be to buy an unexpensive MiniPC that i can put behind the TV? Is that overkill? But what OS would i put into it? A linux distro I am guessing or Android TV? Is there a way I can interact with it using a remote? Are there instead "better" FireTV sticks (no ads and let users install and watch what they want)?

Gimme advice or share your secret setups please :)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Be your own streaming service, and keep using the FireTV stick with the Jellyfin app.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I personally prefer Plex (I got the lifetime PlexPass before Jellyfin was even a thing) but I agree with this 100%. Set it up on a spare computer (or even a RPi,) and toss it in a closet. Then you can use the *arr suite to automatically download new titles.

FileBot will help you automatically rename downloaded files for easy media detection; Historically, the big complaint with Plex/Jellyfin has been the files need to be named very specifically. But FileBot takes care of that, and even downloads subtitles and posters/box art/etc automatically (though with OpenSubtitles API change, that may not be the case anymore?)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

FileBot isn't really necessary, the *arrs can handle renaming just fine with custom rules and formatting. It's just turned off by default. The only thing you'd need to add is subtitle downloading, and Bazarr does a better job of that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Definitely agree with this recommendation! Jellyfin is quite awesome