Easy solution. Don’t plug the tv into the internet.
Use it basically as a monitor. 🖕To the tv makers
Run Jellyfin instead. I don’t know how Plex has stayed as popular as it has.
Easy, Plex can pass the spouse test. Jellyfin has yet to pass the spouse test…it’s getting there though
I tried Jellyfin and the performance for me was sooo much worse than Plex on the same system. Videos took forever to play. Also Plex is way easier for me to share with family than Jellyfin.
I’m not seeing any replies that are super helpful for your question - so here’s what I do: throw a Linux desktop on a Raspberry Pi, or NUC and use the TV like monitor. Get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo and watch Plex through the appimage or just Firefox. Bonus, now any website that does video can be viewed on your big screen tv without dealing with any casting apps.
I have no cable and my TV isn’t hooked to anything except a Chromecast so I can stream to it. Can TVs send stuff out over Chromecast? I feel like it’s no but?
No.
HDMI does have a feature called Ethernet over HDMI that in theory could allow that.
Thing is though it’s literally never been implemented in anything. It died because cheap WiFi became common.
For it to work you’d need both the TV and Chromecast and HDMI cable all to support it. It’s not uncommon on cables and a surprising amount of them include it in features list (probably to trick low info people).
But I believe that’s a hardware design thing so not something even a software update could enable. It costs extra money and they’re already paying for a WiFi chip so why bother?
