Merry Christmas, all,
I am so done with rokus, that have excellent wifi, connect to the internet, but when you try to install apps, (apparently) it can't get to the internal roku network/repositories. I have been fighting with them for a while, including one that I factory reset and it was never able to connect to the roku network.
So I am setting up a TVPC (HTPC, whatever you want to call it). What I envision is a small form factor PC (I picked up a Lenovo M710q Tiny, physically bigger than a RPi, but also cheaper for more compute)...This one has a 7th gen i5 with 8GB of RAM. Should be plenty for the use case. Obviously, the TV will be it's monitor, and I am going to get a media remote, one of them with the QWERTY keyboard on the underside.
So I was wondering if anyone has set up a pc like this or if anyone has pointers to good sources of docs/best practices. I know in a broad sense what I am looking to do, but looking for someone that has experienced the gotchas. I'm basically trying to set up a FreeBSD kiosk terminal, running a browser that will have a few tabs -- one for the local content on jellyfin, one for netflix (unless I decide to drop it like a bad habit, like I did with plex and like I am doing with roku), and probably amazon prime. I was thinking about setting up i3 (presuming it has a persistent mode) with a single browser window, possibly auto-login for the htpc user.
Here is the blog post I did yesterday to start lining things out in my own mind. Anyone got suggestions?
One thing I just learned was that in order to watch netflix on FreeBSD, I am going to have to set up brave in the linuxulator. It's tips like this that I am fishing for.
I am so done with rokus, that have excellent wifi, connect to the internet, but when you try to install apps, (apparently) it can't get to the internal roku network/repositories. I have been fighting with them for a while, including one that I factory reset and it was never able to connect to the roku network.
So I am setting up a TVPC (HTPC, whatever you want to call it). What I envision is a small form factor PC (I picked up a Lenovo M710q Tiny, physically bigger than a RPi, but also cheaper for more compute)...This one has a 7th gen i5 with 8GB of RAM. Should be plenty for the use case. Obviously, the TV will be it's monitor, and I am going to get a media remote, one of them with the QWERTY keyboard on the underside.
So I was wondering if anyone has set up a pc like this or if anyone has pointers to good sources of docs/best practices. I know in a broad sense what I am looking to do, but looking for someone that has experienced the gotchas. I'm basically trying to set up a FreeBSD kiosk terminal, running a browser that will have a few tabs -- one for the local content on jellyfin, one for netflix (unless I decide to drop it like a bad habit, like I did with plex and like I am doing with roku), and probably amazon prime. I was thinking about setting up i3 (presuming it has a persistent mode) with a single browser window, possibly auto-login for the htpc user.
Here is the blog post I did yesterday to start lining things out in my own mind. Anyone got suggestions?
One thing I just learned was that in order to watch netflix on FreeBSD, I am going to have to set up brave in the linuxulator. It's tips like this that I am fishing for.
