Ahoy!
I recently got a new TV and I need some advice on how to best take advantage of my setup.
My current setup: I have an old laptop as my homeserver. I have Pihole on it. I also have setup a VPN with Gluetun that other docker containers are using. To watch movies I have a Kodi + Real Debrid setup on my actual laptop and I would use that with an HDMI cable to watch movies on my old TV.
What has changed now is that I have an Android TV, and to be perfectly honest it was a bit of a hassle to use the laptop to watch stuff especially TV shows because between each episode I would have to get up and use the laptop to play the next episode, and I have to set up my laptop each time because it's my main device and I need to take it with me everywhere. I have the Kore app on my phone but that wouldn't work if my VPN is running on either my phone or laptop, which usually is the case.
From what I read, the simples solution would be setting up stremio on the TV with RD and ditch the VPN. However I would prefer if there was a way to route the traffic through VPN. Do you guys know any better solutions?
Thanks in advance for your help. P.S. Cat pic for your troubles
Just use something like Jellyfin or Plex. Install the server side software on your laptop and the client side on your Android TV
That seems to be the consensus around here :D Looks like I gotta look up how to work with Jellyfin. Thanks for your comment!
I use Musicbrainz-picard to organize music and clean up metadata. For Shows and movies, it's pretty easy. I use Plex and it's pretty flexible with naming conventions