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Looking for a privacy friendly chromecast alternative (feddit.nl)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title says it all, I'm looking for something as user-friendly as a chromecast but not made by a company like google. I'm familiar with linux and if some open source software exists that can do this I would love it.

Ideally it would be able to stream things like Netflix and Disney+ using a smartphone. Would be great if it can also play local files from an external hard drive, but I have a raspberry pi with Kodi for that so that's not a hard requirement by any means.

Price range: preferably under €/$/£100 but for something truly excellent it can be a bit more than that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I bought the rii remote/controller/keyboard/mouse, a raspberry pi 4 8gb, a 4k micro HDMI, a rpi4 power cord, a 64gb micro SD card, rpi4 case with fan. I then attached it to my TV with some zip ties and a L brace

I installed rasbian 64bit.
I installed steam link (have to go to tty command line to have it work though because bullseye doesn't have previous buster driver support yet
I installed kodi > Plex addon
I installed kodi > YouTube addon
I installed kodi > jellyfin add-on with repository
I didn't trust the sketchy "add my repository to download and install". Disney plus on kodi, so I made a shortcut to the browser with that site
I made a shortcut to Netflix browser.

It isn't the same as " any phone controls sound and playback" like a chromcast, but it is private and it is better than Chromecast (higher resolution and framerate, and streams/remotelycontrols local beefy gaming computers) in some ways.

Do you know of a RPI app with a fdroid counterpart that allows clicks from a LAN smartphone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sounds like a nice setup. I have an old laptop I could potentially use for this.