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Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a headless raspberry PI 4 8GB connected to my TV setup with Kodi and the Jellyfin add-on. Now I would like to have a convenient option to watch Youtube in a privacy-friendly way on the TV.

The experience should be similar to Freetube: creating playlists, search videos, follow subscribed channels. I don't mind running it either directly on the PI or install it on my server.

Thanks for any recommendations of what you folks use!

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[–] 39 points 2 months ago (12 children)

If you have an Android TV device, SmartTube is fantastic. It’s highly configurable and blocks ads out of the box

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm terrified some day it'll stop working and I'll have to go back to regular YouTube!

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  • [+] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I actually wonder sometimes how it's survived this long

    So I've been involved with the repo a little (just some basic issue triage and documentation stuff) and all I can say is that Yuliskov has made that project his life's work. If anything happens to him, we're all screwed!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I have an LG with WebOS which is also not connected to the internet. So that's unfortunately not an option.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Buy a $20 Android TV box from Walmart and install Smarttube on it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    He wants privacy from YouTube, pretty sure that he doesn't want Walmart to steal his data either

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Walmart doesn't make the box so more like Google or China.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Nobody makes their own boxes, everything you love to play with either gets designed, fabricated, or packaged in to boards, or assembled, in China.

    So tired of the casual racism of "this brand good, but that brand bad, because China." I know you didn't mean something malicious by it, but we've got to do better.

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