On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 26/02/2025 18:05, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I think it makes way more sense to just host a media server of some > > sort on Linux and point everything to it, rather than try to turn a TV > > running some proprietary smart TV OS into one. > > And where do I put that media server? How do I power it? Why do I want > the hassle of another computer? It might only be a few watts, but when > I'm relying on a 100W solar panel for EVERYTHING, its watts I don't want > to spend.
Well, obviously I'm not familiar with your particular application. I let kubernetes figure out where to run the media server, but I'm not sure I'd be running a cluster on a 100W solar panel. (Not that you can't run k3s on a Pi.) > And anyway, I'm not trying to turn a tv with a proprietary OS into a > media server. First off, the tv is running linux, and secondly all I am > (and want to) doing is putting media files on a USB stick attached to > the tv. Which is standard behaviour pretty much encouraged by all smart tvs! You can of course do things however you want, and if you're really reduced to the bare minimum of computing more power to you getting it to work. I'm just saying that in general it is going to be way easier to get a TV to connect to a media server, than to turn it into one without a lot of limitations. -- Rich
