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Best TV box for connecting to streaming services?
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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Look for air mouse. It's basically a wiimote. Uses gyroscope to pretend to be a pointer device. You'll need that because you're basically going to need to use a web browser if you want to go down this path.
It's not a nice experience but all the nice experiences you won't like.
I mean the Vero V seems to be a nice polished experience. It's just a lot of work to setup a linux box and get it to work, the latter being the hard part. The wiimote and the flirc have some comments in reviews about being poor experiences, and I just want it to be on par with the Roku or it'll wind up in the trash heap. I don't mind paying a little bit extra for a finished solution, and it seems like a plus that the Vero is a community/libre project.
OSMC on a rpi3 with a hifiberry+ has served me well for many years. Most things just work, even passthrough TV remote over i2c if the TV supports it (brand name for the implementation varies by TV manufacturer I think). My setup has been really slow in recent months, but I probably just need a new sd card... Streaming service integration in kodi isn't perfect but e.g. Netflix works well enough.
It's a bit of tinkering to get it just the way you want it, but not too much and then it's great with a lot of flexibility. I have slapped an IR LED onto a GPIO, for example, and I have a service running that checks for audio output and turns my old hifi system on and off accordingly.
It seems to me like you've kinda made up your mind and are just waiting for someone to back you up before dropping the cash for the Vero :P
With the criteria you've listed, I doubt you'll find a better solution. I say go for it (as long as you can afford it)!
in the nicest way possible. lower your expectations. or accept the data-selling, or VPN through europe so you can deny the ads.