Youtube-webos is the single reason why I've resumed watching YT in the livingroom. I had stopped when they introduced the second pre-roll ad and a lot of things became unskippable. Now my old TV is rooted, it doesn't really phone home, it doesn't show ads and it's a breeze. Let's hope it stays that way, because Google is already trying to fight the adblockers for some time now.
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smeg@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Don’t forget SmartTube for Android TV / Shield / Fire and youtube-webos for LG TVs!
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 months ago
smeg@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You don’t even need to root it, developer mode is relatively simple to set up and that lets you install whatever. A pihole is good for stopping it phoning home though.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 months ago
I believe my WebOS version is so old, they stopped any update or data collection servers. I had developer mode running before. That's perfectly alright. Just a bit annoying to constantly refresh, and somehow my attempts to automate it failed. So one day I rooted it and now I have full ssh access, a homebrew channel... And I would have liked to use that to run an Ambilight, and that requires root. Sadly it requires a newer operating system version so I still don't have any LEDs in the background.
smeg@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Now you can install the homebrew channel just with developer mode. There’s also an app to automatically refresh the timer but I was a little hesitant about the access it wanted so I’m just doing it manually for now.
somenonewho@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yup that’s my way to go.
Revanced on my phone for watching quick videos/on the go and SmartTube on the TV. If I find a longer video to watch I usually start it in Revanced and then play it from history in SmartTube