Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV (lemmy.ml)

submitted 14 hours ago by scrooge101@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a headless raspberry PI 4 8GB connected to my TV setup with Kodi and the Jellyfin add-on. Now I would like to have a convenient option to watch Youtube in a privacy-friendly way on the TV.

The experience should be similar to Freetube: creating playlists, search videos, follow subscribed channels. I don't mind running it either directly on the PI or install it on my server.

Thanks for any recommendations of what you folks use!

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[-] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 29 points 12 hours ago

If you have an Android TV device, SmartTube is fantastic. It’s highly configurable and blocks ads out of the box

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Would a Roku work? Forgive my ignorance, not sure if they count as android based

[-] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Roku uses a custom OS unfortunately

[-] postman@literature.cafe 7 points 11 hours ago

I'm terrified some day it'll stop working and I'll have to go back to regular YouTube!

[-] scrooge101@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

I have an LG with WebOS which is also not connected to the internet. So that's unfortunately not an option.

[-] uuj8za@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

I also have an LG TV. I bought an external Android TV box (Nvidia Shield) and now primarily use that as the interface.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Buy a $20 Android TV box from Walmart and install Smarttube on it.

[-] Samiaouuu@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago

He wants privacy from YouTube, pretty sure that he doesn't want Walmart to steal his data either

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026

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