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Get a raspberry pi and a cheap wireless mouse and keyboard.
Yeah there are trackpad and keyboard that have the form factor of a TV remote. I use one with a Beelink mini Linux PC as my TV's brain.
I bought one of those and it died in like a year. Took it apart to see if it could be fixed. The whole thing is just one big circuit board. No parts to replace. Ended up just chucking it and probably won’t buy another one.
The remote or the Beelink?
Remote. It was the Rii K06 Mini Bluetooth Keyboard from Amazon. Only like $27 but I just don’t like creating that much ewaste. The battery in it still worked perfectly fine. The keys just started glitching out. Tried on several different computers all did the same thing. I kept it clean wasn’t any liquid or anything sticky on it. Even when I hit a button on the circuit board with it all taken apart it did the same thing.
Maybe try a different make? You may have just gotten a bad one. Mine is still working
Thought about it but there’s really not too many companies that make these. All from cheap Chinese no name brands. What one do you have? I’m open to recommendations.
Nah mine's just a cheap Chinese one as well. It's just a roll of the dice. Only difference with mine is it's a USB dongle, not Bluetooth.
What are you using as an alternative? I toyed with using KDE Connect as my remote before I bought the separate one. Unfortunately KDE Connect requires KDE to be running, which makes it hard to screw around with stuff at boot time like GRUB or UEFI. Plus there are a bunch of keystrokes that are hard to make on KDE Connect.
Microsoft Wireless All-In-One Media Keyboard that I bought almost 8 years ago lol. Thing is a trooper, but it’s definitely annoying having such a large object in my living room. I’m using GNOME so I’m not sure if KDE Connect would work for me. I wouldn’t mind a smartphone solution if it worked reliably though.
I'm pretty sure you can install KDE Connect on GNOME, but it doesn't have full functionality. Sending keystrokes and mouse input should be fine though.
I’ll look into it thanks. I ran the apt command on Debian and was intimidated by how many dependencies were required. Might try it on a test machine first.
Yeah when you install one KDE component it tries to install the entire DE by default as "recommended" dependencies. There's a flag for apt that tells it to only install necessary dependencies and not also the optional recommended ones.
Flirc and any remote you want
I've been using a roku but this sounds like a better setup.
It takes a little getting used to but once you do it's very comfy. And you can watch content from anywhere that supports viewing in a browser or Linux desktop app including some swashbuckling ones. Lol.
can even get used micro PCs on eBay for $100-150 that work very well, don't need to learn a new os, can use Ubuntu and sites like 123movies or sflix with ublock origin.
Raspberry Pi OS is made to be easy enough for kids. It's literally point and click. There's nothing to learn. And Raspberry Pis can be much cheaper than that. You can get a Pi 4 2GB for $40.