Smart TVs are everywhere! But who is the master?
Amid the overall electronics boom thanks to A.I., one piece of electronics is almost unchanged financially. That is the digital display or flat-panel monitor. With good reason! The entire entertainment and streaming industry wants one of these device
Sounds like a you problem, sometimes you gotta live different if you don’t wanna be tracked.
my solution is smart TV with restricted VLAN. then it can use jellyfin or whatever I feel like. but I can’t recommend that to the average joe, who does not even have any network equipment capable of restricting a port to a VLAN.
Seriously. any recommendation that does not solve this problem is at most a tech demo. remote control, preferably without the fragile smartphone. and no airmouse, that’s terrible even on my LG TV. hardware side it’s simple, get an USB IR receiver, or use the HDMI-CEC signals coming from the TV. but there is nothing to tie it into the linux desktop.
I use Plasma Big screen and have a remote sized keyboard with trackpad. The arrow keys are usually all you need, but the rest is there if you do need it.
now that is interesting. does it work with IR, or wifi/bluetooth only? if IR, are the signals of these buttons standardized, so that I can expect it to work well if I order one?
RF USB Dongle, it shows up as a keyboard.
It’s this one here
https://www.newegg.ca/visiontek-candyboard-keyboard-with-touchpad-and-built-in-ir-remote-900507-usb-rf-wireless/p/N82E16823852004
That’s a bit uncalled for, don’t you think?
I just used a mini pc to create a seperate network, then blocked internet for TV network. Then i setup microsocks and made an exception for that proxy and jellyfin. This way I can use smartube (it has a proxy option) for youtube and jellyfin for other media without logging in or providing internet access to anything on the TV.