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Re:Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to ... by djrogers on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:41PM (#27645637)
Yeah, but can it do that out-of-the-box with zero effort for the rest of my family? Sadly, no.

Futzing with Kodi updates, patches, updates to the OS, drivers, etc is all way too much to be considered ’smooth’ for most.

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Re:Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to ... by crtasm on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:48PM (#27646217)
We've got a RPi running https://osmc.tv/ (based around Kodi) - other than pressing yes to install updates every so often it hasn't needed touching. There might even be an auto update at 1am type option.

It only gets used for local media + radio, twitch and youtube streams though - I don't know about other services.

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Re:Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to ... by rglullis on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:05PM (#27645837)
Oh, yes, the old America's motto: "Give me convenience or give me death!"

Joking aside, there is not much futzing around to do if you just go with LibreElec, and you can even buy pre-installed boxes nowadays.

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