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set up a raspberry pi or an old laptop with Kodi and use that. Don't plug your TV in to ethernet or give it wifi.
by ohthehugemanate 5y ago
set up a raspberry pi or an old laptop with Kodi and use that. Don't plug your TV in to ethernet or give it wifi.
- rightbyte 5y agoThat only works if there are no open wifis around. And I would not be suprised if Samsung use Verizon's (?) spy mesh of wifi routers.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoI've always heard people claim that TVs will do this, I've never seen one actually do it. I don't believe any TV will speculatively join open wifi without asking.
- cma 5y agoIf you consider Echo Show a smart TV, it can use amazon's sidewalk network to connect without internet.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoUnfortunately, many current TVs ship with advertised-but-missing features, which are added later via a software update. In the current gen, variable framerate input is a good example of this.
- mackrevinack 5y agoim using kodi myself. i used libreElec for a few years which is basically just kodi as an OS. i switched to a OSMC recently which is a bit more expensive than a raspberry pi but the hardware and then OSMC skin is a bit nicer i mainly use it with the jellyfin plugin so all of my media is stored on a NAS and kodi just acts as the player