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I tried to have a good and not expensive approach on that. So in my opinion i have a quite conservative setting. I have a raspberry pi 3 with osmc installed vi

I tried to have a good and not expensive approach on that. So in my opinion i have a quite conservative setting. I have a raspberry pi 3 with osmc installed via noobs at startup. Additionally I bought a DVB-S USB Stick (http://sundtek.com/shop/Digital-TV-Sticks/Sundtek-SkyTV-Ultimate-6-2016-DVB-S/S2.html http://sundtek.com/shop/Digital-TV-Sticks/Sundtek-SkyTV-Ulti...) for germany. A standard TV is connected via HDMI. I use a KODI android app as a remote control. Additionally I have bought 1 TB NAS on ebay in the cellar which is connected via network cable to the wifi router. Without TV I had total cost of approximately 300 € I have connected all music services (soundcloud, etc), all mediathek services of german and austria television providers. Also youtube and vimeo. Everything works great and was extremely low cost, i would say.

roryisok 9y ago
I have a similar setup, Rpi3 with OSMC / Kodi installed. I turned an old 500GB laptop drive into an external HD for storage, with reuse of parts I'd say the whole thing cost me €50/€60 - for the Rpi3, Case, PSU (though most micro USB phone chargers will work so don't buy one unless you need one), Micro SDHC card, and SATA to USB cable for the hard drive (I milled out an old Gameboy and stuck it in there for a retro look) Advantages: Cheap, no remote required (TV remote can control it through HDMI, or you can use an app), low power, handles 1080p content just fine Disadvantages: There's currently no way (that I know of) to get Netflix working on Rpi3 hardware. Netflix has no native linux app, and the only browsers it works through are Chrome and Firefox, which are not available on Raspbian or any other Rpi distro. (I would love to be wrong about this. If its possible, somebody please educate me)
- la_fayette 9y ago
  Yes this is something i found out recently, that the remote control works over hdmi. This quite astonished me! Also it works out of the box with osmc... Chromium (open source chrome) definitely works. However if you installed osmc you have propably the openelec distro. I am not sure if you can run a browser on it...
  - roryisok 9y ago
    I had to change some keybindings to map the "back" button on my remote, but it largely worked for me out of the box

roryisok 9y ago

I have a similar setup, Rpi3 with OSMC / Kodi installed. I turned an old 500GB laptop drive into an external HD for storage, with reuse of parts I'd say the whole thing cost me €50/€60 - for the Rpi3, Case, PSU (though most micro USB phone chargers will work so don't buy one unless you need one), Micro SDHC card, and SATA to USB cable for the hard drive (I milled out an old Gameboy and stuck it in there for a retro look) Advantages: Cheap, no remote required (TV remote can control it through HDMI, or you can use an app), low power, handles 1080p content just fine Disadvantages: There's currently no way (that I know of) to get Netflix working on Rpi3 hardware. Netflix has no native linux app, and the only browsers it works through are Chrome and Firefox, which are not available on Raspbian or any other Rpi distro. (I would love to be wrong about this. If its possible, somebody please educate me)

la_fayette 9y ago
Yes this is something i found out recently, that the remote control works over hdmi. This quite astonished me! Also it works out of the box with osmc... Chromium (open source chrome) definitely works. However if you installed osmc you have propably the openelec distro. I am not sure if you can run a browser on it...
- roryisok 9y ago
  I had to change some keybindings to map the "back" button on my remote, but it largely worked for me out of the box