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.
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.