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Jellyfin Dongle (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi guys!

I'm looking for a replacement travel dongle to play my Jellyfin movies whenever I'm traveling. My goto device up to this point has been a Chromecast (with GTV I think). But it's becoming increasingly clear its playback is very unreliable, hanging mid-playback for long periods. I blamed it initially on bandwidth issues over very long distances (the server is on a different continent at the moment!). But playing on the laptop via browser or via the jellyfin media player flatpak works just beautifully. So it clearly seems to be issues with the Chromecast as it's connected to the same Wifi and TV as the laptop.

So I am thinking...what other devices could I look into as Chromecast replacement? There's over 3yr old recommendations about a Walmart device (but I don't live anywhere near the American continent). The other go-to device would be an Nvidia Shield, the canister-looking one. But that still seems a bit hefty for traveling. After all these years, is there any device you'd recommend to use as light-to-bring dongle for traveling?

Thanks!

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[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a little bulkier than a Chromecast but for my TV at home I use a Raspberry Pi 5 with Konstakang's Android TV LineageOS images installed. It works pretty well and I could see it being fairly portable.

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That sounds like something I would be interested in replacing my chromecasts at home with. Are you able to configure a remote control to work with the pi?

Because I'd like any transition to be seamless as possible. Thanks for sharing!

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

It supports HDMI CEC so I just use the remote that came with my TV

[–] impersonator@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can use a usb ir receiver, I can recommend FLIRC.

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you for the recommendation! Helps me get one step closer to trashing all the chromecasts in my house.