What android tv box should I use as a client for "Jellyfin for Android TV"? (feddit.de)

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[-] glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Worth mentioning: Android TV is proprietary and developed by Google. As far as privacy goes it is as bad as any wish.com-android-solution.

[-] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

The linked build is based on LineageOS, not stock Android. Should be fully FOSS.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

To my knowledge Android TV isn't any more proprietary than standard Android. The only really proprietary code are the Google Play Services (and Widevine).

[-] glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

You will find the source code of Android, you won't find the source code of Android TV.

Just like all the Android-based operating systems on smartphones: if you take a free product and add suckyness, the end product sucks.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

If there's no source code for ATV, how can there be (unofficial) LineageOS builds of ATV? Genuine question

[-] glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Do you mean this konstaKang-Image? LineageOS for the RaspberryPi, I tried that and it works quite ok. A bit sluggish maybe. LineageOS is an open source project build around the pure open source Android. And the konstaKang-Image is also an open source project, although with a weird license. But they have nothing to do with Android TV, as far as I know.