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Self-hosted TV interface solutions

Hello!

Regarding what Gamers Nexus recently disclosed regarding LG TVs in their latest video I think its finally time to do what I can to mitigate it.

I cant root it since the firmware is too new and I cant afford a new TV either. My best bet would be blocking all LG IPs network-wide and disconnecting it from the network. (Although I understand even that might not be enough, its the best I can do right now)

I was thinking of using an old Raspberry to atleast access youtube and my media server, however I dont know what would be a good OS/distro to run this on. Preferably I would want to use something like an old PS4 controller as the remote.

Anyone here who has any suggestions or living room setups to suggest? Any and all tips are welcome.

Replying to @⁨Epzillon@lemmy.world⁩

I know people here will hate this but i used GPT to write a custome Kodi addon to do this for me. Breaks the days up into various programming blocks that i can configure with shows from my library. It comes with a website used to configure it and an import json system for the programming so i can give my list of shows to any ai and just tell it the kind of channel i want and it will configure one for me that i can import. The programming blocks come in three types: shows, movies and music. Shows allows for sequential, random or tagged play (for holidays and seasonal events). Movies and music also come with various search and random play profiles for things lile age, genre, tags and various other terms. Took about 2 weeks to get it to the point where i can turn it on and let it run without issue. Currently working on adding network ids and bumps to extend shows to their time frames so the sequencing doesnt get so off the clock after a few hours of watching. And i miss the adult swim bumps

Edited ⁨⁨Sep⁩ ⁨7⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨15:34⁩⁩en