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Can anybody lead me down the right path on this...?

I run a jellyfin server and I'd like to utilize a raspberry pi as the equivalent of a roku box / fire stick but for my jellyfin server.

I'm setting this up for a friend as a gift. He isn't very tech savvy so I wanted to make it user-friendly. I'm looking into buying a usb remote control as well.

I love the jellyin UI so it would be cool to stick with that.

What are my options? It would be ideal if the pi boots up right into the browser/player app and can be accessed/controlled via the remote like roku or similar.

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[–] cccc@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you’re using a 3b just be aware that hevc and x265 files won’t play properly.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI, hevc is a name for the codec and x265 is just a name for one of the encoders into hevc (AKA h265) format.

They're kinda-sorta the same thing.

[–] cccc@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

You're welcome! It's relatively niche stuff and the naming is pretty much a hot mess lol

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jellyfin Media Player is the main desktop app, but if I were you I'd probably set it up with LibreElec and use the Jellyfin Kodi plugin, since you're looking for sort of a console-ized setup for your non-techie friend.

Now all that said, the Roku app is great and you could definitely just get your friend a Roku Streaming Stick+ and set up the JF app on it for them.

[–] Watcher@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's probably the best solution. Unfortunately you won't have access to the real jellyfin UI

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

True, though you could grab a Kodi theme that's "close enough" if you're so-inclined.

For instance, if you use a version of LibreElec with Kodi 19 "Matrix" on it, you could grab the Embuary skin for it, which is based on the Emby web-ui, which Jellyfin is forked off of originally

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This approach seems like it will get me close to what I'm trying to achieve.

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Which one of those do you suggest over the other?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

LibreElec is lighter, so I'd generally agree with GPT4 on this one. It can be slightly more involved to set up, but there's good documentation for the Pi in particular, so it's not like it's hard to pull off.

[–] omalaul@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Commenting here for traction. Having *arr apps, a VPN, and jellyfin running on a Pi would be a great gift.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

take one of the mediaplayer distos (LibreELEC, ...). they are easy to set up and quite robust. there are jellyfin plugins for kodi. but you probably won't have exactly the same ui with kodi.

[–] unconsciousvoidling@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Worth testing out if you have one lying around… they are scarce these days. I’m not completely sure it would be a good experience performance wise. I would like to know myself.

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