I’ve found some discussions about hosting the Jellyfin server on lower end devices, but what about the client? I imagine the requirements to be pretty low, since a gen 2 Chromecast worked fine.
Has someone tried setting up a raspberry pi in kiosk mode? Can you suggest something cheap that would be good enough for 1080p?
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Cheap? There are chinese 15 bucks android TVs. Amazon sells theirs for 50 bucks and it can play almost everything.
Amazon’s is crap because it’s like apple. You can’t do anything that amazon doesn’t want you to.
Chinese might be spyware. I have no idea. The good thing is they are usually rooted and you have full access to it. You can do whatever you want. They can play 4k but no avi or DV.
Onn TV box from walmart is $20
There is also a 15 stick version…
You could find lower end/older devices that will work too but when you can get a new 2023 box that’s up to date and not full of bloatware or spyware, why would you want to risk it?
A raspi isnt what id consider low end or cheap in regards to jellyfin, but it will def work fine.
Has anyone done a deep dive to know for sure that it isn’t full of spyware and bloat? I’m weary of anything I can’t flash a new OS to. Or maybe they can be loaded up with a different community maintained OS?
