Thanks a lot this looks perfect, ordered :)

I havent used sd cards for a while, but I found balena etcher to be more reliable the pi’s sd writer outside of pi OS or debian

Why this over the default retropie image? (genuinely curious)

Any idea what the power draw is for n100’s compared to pi?

What are you casting? if its just youtube then why not just use the app? the only way to find out is to try it out, I suggest pi 5 as its much more compatible with android but at that price you might as well just got an android device if casting is the most imbortant thing to you ie firestick, roku stick.

Edit: or just a google chromecast device?

there used to be rpicast but that hasnt kept up with android releases and youd be casting to a rpi os desktop which would probably be a bit more hands on than it sounds like you want it to be

Android tv on lineage by https://konstakang.com/ might be worth looking at. Havent tried it myself but here is a review of android 10 https://youtu.be/zN3zcUpeW8U?feature=shared which is quite old and I imagine there have been a lot of improvements by now. I might be wrong so anyone feel free to correct: I dont think pi 4 has wifi on android tv only ethernet, but I think pi 5 does have wifi on android plus better graphics drivers.

Ive never had to use it myself 🤞 hope it helps!

Have you tried just downgrading the version of chromium? https://askubuntu.com/questions/138284/how-to-downgrade-a-package-via-apt-get

No but yes… Its just running debian so no official netflix app, but you can just install netflix.com as a chromium web app - but dont forget to install the dependencies for drm content: https://lemmy.zip/post/10852737

I dont use it but it can run in a browser right? just save the ip as a web app

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Hardware: pi 4b 4gb ram overclocked and on ethernet, argon one case with m2 sata ssd expansion (usb drive seemed to perform well enough too), rii x1 wireless mini keyboard with touchpad.

Software: rpi os lite, kde plasma, plasma bigscreen, chromium web apps + extensions, kde connect.

I will try write a guide on the set up process today. From testing I think this would run on any usb storage, with a cooled and overclocked pi 4.

No links unfortunately, I will try write up a detailed guide today

Chromium web app. Just go to <piracy-is-bad>dotcom/home, and there is an “install” button on the right side of the url bar. Use the home page to skip the main page that says click to enter. The bonus is that you get the benefits of web extensions like ublock and privacy badger.

I will do, I can just unplug the ssd base and use a usb drive in its place for that. Do you know if it will run a web browser? I looked for kodi and apparently theres only a plugin for chrome and not firefox or chromium so youd lose the h264ify plugins that raspi os has

I didnt like having to sift through all the different packages to find ones I wanted and that worked with kodi. If that part was easier id have just kept it, the ui is good especially with the skins you can get for it.

Yeah the debian package for bigscreen is a little less box ready than what comes with the new plasma release, hopefully it drips down at some point. But its not such a bad experience that its cumbersome, I just switch over to regular plasma when I need to make system tweaks then change session back to big screen after.

I did a raspi lite install, then installed kde-standard, I tried kde-desktop-session first which is lighter but some configs might be out of date or something because that one didnt work for me it kept hanging up on boot. Then you need to enable the sddm login managers system service and set the os to gui graphical.target, then you can install plasma-bigscreen all from apt.

Oh you can use kde connect too, I havent set it up on this one just yet but on the pc before I was using I used my phone as a remote too.

Yeah it wasnt a straightforward install. I looked at kodi but I didnt like it, havent tried libreelec. I think chromium apps and big screen works well for me

Wireless keyboard with a touchpad. I picked up an argon remote too im going to try do something useful with a python script for it

Hahaha

More than. I was running adguard “hole” on a 2B over ethernet, a 3B is going to have computing power to spare for additional tasks if you so choose