I’ve seen a couple articles about an android tv alternative and it’s got me thinking about a streaming box again. A while back i gave kodi a try and didn’t care for the experience. Granted, it was on a pi so expectations were low but it missed the mark for me. This time around i’ve got a modest nuc with proxmox i was thinking of moving to the living room and standing up a fresh vm of kodi to stream to.
I could just access the files over the network but i’m already running both plex and jellyfin so why not use either for my watch history. All that being said is kodi still my best bet?
Why proxmox? At some point down the road i’d like to get a capture card in the mix to stream games and that feels like the most flexible way to do everything.
kodi.
kodi kodi kodi.
kodi on everything, headless kodi, kodi on phone, on linux computer, LibreELEC on an old chromebook,
addons for other streaming services, for immich, for subsonic music, jellyfin and emby.
so much more also.
customize the gui to your hearts extent, or just fall in love with every piece of media in your ecosystem easily visible in a unified interface that works with remotes, game controllers, air mouse. keyboard. App on phone, web interface from another machine
once you get the first one perfected, back it up and immediately have it on the next machine.
YouTube is a little bit of a bitch but there’s ways around that sometimes
Just tried out Kodi on Android but I’m sorry, the app sucks. No native addon browsing, the keyboard is custom but incredibly small on my phone, navigation is weird, there’s no back button and my main buttons on the phone get hidden so I always have to manually show them again. The design is unappealing and for some reason it really wants access to my devices microphone.
Literally the worst one I’ve tried and I didn’t even get to the video player, which everyone says stops working every once in a while.
Is there play state sync now betqeen Clients?