Hello sailors,
as a long time FireTV stick un-enjoyer, I finally decided that the time has come to get rid of this piece of crap I was baited into buying because of the low price. The number of streaming services keeps increasing (splitting content among different servives) and each and every one of them is demanding for an increasing amount of money for a monthly subscription; “buy this movie only” services dont actually give you shi except for the right to stream it for as long as it stays in their library, even though af course you pay 13,99 as if it was a physical copy of a movie. In addition to that, the FireTV is now completely filled with ads. I am tired of this shitty customer treatment, im sailing.
I am not experienced into local media-sharing and management, so I am looking for advice… What’s my best move to replace it?
I thought a good idea would be to buy an unexpensive MiniPC that i can put behind the TV? Is that overkill? But what OS would i put into it? A linux distro I am guessing or Android TV? Is there a way I can interact with it using a remote? Are there instead “better” FireTV sticks (no ads and let users install and watch what they want)?
Gimme advice or share your secret setups please :)
Before you throw it away, you can sideload Kodi onto it, and stream local content, IPTV, and other (not super legal) entertainment sites.
That seems like a good piece of advice, maybe I will use this temporarily while I figure if I want to get a dedicated device.
Be your own streaming service, and keep using the FireTV stick with the Jellyfin app.
I personally prefer Plex (I got the lifetime PlexPass before Jellyfin was even a thing) but I agree with this 100%. Set it up on a spare computer (or even a RPi,) and toss it in a closet. Then you can use the *arr suite to automatically download new titles.
FileBot will help you automatically rename downloaded files for easy media detection; Historically, the big complaint with Plex/Jellyfin has been the files need to be named very specifically. But FileBot takes care of that, and even downloads subtitles and posters/box art/etc automatically (though with OpenSubtitles API change, that may not be the case anymore?)
Jellyfin on the firestick. Remove internet access from the stick (LAN only).
Alternatively, DNS block amazon communications (Pihole, adguardhome, etc).
Edit: you can also install adguard, or other ad blockers directly onto your firestick.
Edit 2: there are also a number of ad preferences burried deep in the settings. My fireTV has no adblocker, but only displays static banner ads on the homepage.
Jellyfin on the firestick.
Yeah, but you have to install Linux on it first 😂. Easier said than done 😂.
It’s in the app store. You don’t have to do that. If you’re talking about the server, that’s pretty easy.
Yeah, I was talking about the server and you probably can’t install it on that thing by just clicking away or doing a few terminal commands 😂.
Why is nobody talking about stremio? The user interface and experience is very close to netflix (better at times) but it plays torrents instead.
If you pair it with a real-debrid subscription after you first try it solo it takes it to the next level.
It’s just amazing
And you don’t have to buy anything. Stremio can be installed on your firetv stick
EDIT: forgot to mention that you need the torrentio or torrrentio lite add on for stremio.
Stremio + Torrentio + Real Debrid is the smoothest piracy experience I’ve ever had. I even coached my dad on how to set it up through chat, it’s that easy.
Could not recommend this more - so much easier than managing multiple other streaming services (and cheaper than a VPN for torrenting)! Also recommend launcher manager (1.1.9) to make the home button go to Stremio (so you don’t ever have to see the adverts anymore, though it did take some playing with settings) and Trakt (+ Stremio add-on) for a watchlist.
Real-debrid is like a “cache” for torrents. Instead the torrent been streaming direct to your device, it will be downloaded to the real debrid server, and then streaming it from real-debrid to you. The good thing is that if you start a torrent that is already in the real-debrid it will start streaming instantly. It is payed but I think it is totally worth.
FireTV stick, yo mama’s so fat, she brought a spoon to the Super Bowl.
