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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Any way to connect it to an internal network so I can still cast from local devices? Otherwise it's just going to exist plugged into a laptop.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Something like a chromecast would be the easiest solution.

    Me personally, I just like having a media pc hooked up to my tv. I bought an amazon fire tv cause it was fairly cheap for 4k and its never been hooked up to the internet.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Just watch them litter those with ads too

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It is a problem, my shield tv started having ads on the home page, but I was able to install a new launcher on it to fix that.

    Overall having a media player plugged in to a disconnected tv is the way to go. It is easier to replace a chromecast than the whole tv.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What launcher are you using? I haven't found one I really like yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I've been having a seperate media box connected to my TV for decades now, and if I want to get support for newer video encoding protocols (which happens maybe every 8 years or so) I can just change the media box, which is far cheaper than getting a whole new TV just because you need the hardware decoder chip for a newer video encoding.

    The dumb part of the TV easilly lasts decades.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You probably can give it a static ip through your router and block any access to the internet for it. Could even set up pihole to block the ads from coming in to any device. That said, it's possible the TV has built in ads or error messages to show in place of the ads when offline/blocked, or may just not even work if offline for longer than x minutes/hours/days

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think a PiHole wouldn't work cause the ads come from the same place as the videos

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Samsung, AFAIK, doesn't have a streaming service so that doesn't matter.

    We weren't talking about ADs on some streaming service, we're talking about ADs displayed on the TV from Samsung themselves

    Also, AD proxying with content isn't always guaranteed, I've seen YT do it ofc

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Not sure about Samsung devices but I've got a few Rokus and my pihole does a great job of blocking ads.

    They still push "promotions" into the menus and every month I have to go through and turn them off, but I don't see ads in the UI.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I have an old Intel nuc that I could slap a hard drive in. It wouldn't have to handle all traffic, right?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's how I handled my "smart" TV - I had a spare minipc from my old homelab, threw Linux on it and plugged it into the HDMI port.

    It has never connected to my network, despite the BestBuy employee insisting it would need firmware updates for better picture.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Omg, that reminds me of a time when a retail employee insisted that installing Linux on a particular machine would rock crashing the hard drive. This was, oh, maybe 2006 or so.

    I did not buy a new computer that day.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You may use it as a display and connect it to a Raspberry Pi (or other mini-PC) with Kodi on it.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Sure, break it's routing. You can give it a fake DNS server (like a pihole that blocks everything), you could set up routing rules that block everything not addressed in the network ip range, there's a ton of ways I can think to do it off the top of my head. It might require some tinkering though

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