Well a) yeah I know I said that in my comment

And b) you can get a YouTube plugin for Kodi IIRC

So what’s your point?

Yeah we looked into a shield recently because we know someone who has one and we really liked it, plus I’ve heard it can be locked down and side loaded decently

But then we saw the price of one and are not willing to spend more than half the cost of a brand new 4k tv on a little box to stream from our media server and Netflix…

Thank you for sharing this, it looks really promising

I’m tired of only hearing of Kodi suggested in threads like this. I don’t get why it’s so popular, it’s confusing for non-tech oriented people, you can’t stream, YouTube functionality is questionable, the interface is dated looking and IMO an eyesore…

Some people like Kodi and that’s great but it sucks balls for other people and there’s barely ever any mention of any sort of alternative (like your comment)

These threads are usually just:

“I need a device or software for watching tv that works with a remote”

Kodi Kodi Kodi jUsT uSe A lApToP Kodi Kodi Laptop + HDMI cable

I’m not going to argue with you but you should read the article perhaps? It’s pretty specific about where the laser is aimed vis a vis windows and whatnot

Ahh ok, that’s what you meant before I guess

Since that function is usually meant for night vision, I wonder how well a security camera can pick out the laser during the day i.e. when the IR sensors are being swamped by daylight also coming in through the window

demonstrating that he can point a laser that’s invisible to the human eye at a faraway laptop, through a window, and detect the computer’s vibrations to reconstruct virtually every character typed on it

Infrared is not visible

Fascinating, thanks for sharing. I see it says peer to peer vid chat and works in the browser but I’m wondering if it requires setting up a server or using a public instance, something like that?

Or is it possible for two people to go to the web page and start a vid chat with zero installation or any other preamble?

Sorry I’m away from home so I can’t look into the GitHub page deeply enough to answer my own questions

This was my first thought too but I think OP is more focused on those small things that only become evident after a couple weeks or even a month, after you’ve already invested a bunch of time and energy getting everything running the way you need it