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!
If you have an Android TV device, SmartTube is fantastic. It’s highly configurable and blocks ads out of the box
Would a Roku work? Forgive my ignorance, not sure if they count as android based
Roku uses a custom OS unfortunately
I’m terrified some day it’ll stop working and I’ll have to go back to regular YouTube!
I have an LG with WebOS which is also not connected to the internet. So that’s unfortunately not an option.
I also have an LG TV. I bought an external Android TV box (Nvidia Shield) and now primarily use that as the interface.
Buy a $20 Android TV box from Walmart and install Smarttube on it.
He wants privacy from YouTube, pretty sure that he doesn’t want Walmart to steal his data either
Walmart doesn’t make the box so more like Google or China.