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DIY Chromecast (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago by mypasswordis1234 to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone! I would like to part ways with my Google Chromecast. Fortunately, I had an extra Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB version) in my drawer, which I used to install LineageOS. Afterwards, I installed F-Droid and a customized launcher to give it a more AndroidTV-like appearance.

Now, I have a couple of questions:

What can I use as an alternative to Google's screencasting?
Is it advisable to enable SSH with root access on the Raspberry Pi?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yes, I understand, you installed LOS and turned the raspberry into an android box. but you can install a normal linux distribution on it and then you can run both of those tools. then, your phone or tablet becomes the primary browser and remote control. right now, your raspberry with remote is the browser - you use it to browse/play media and control it (play/pause/etc).

e.g. you scroll lemmy and see a video you like; instead of watching it on your phone, you share it to e.g. AllCast (maybe there's a better app, that's the one I'm using) and that one transmits the youtube url to macast and voila - full screen video that you can control from your phone. same thing with reddit videos and other popular video sites (macast uses yt-dl behind the scenes, so whatever site yt-dl supports works in macast as well), as well as media that's locally on your phone.

same thing with jellyfin-mpv-shim - you connect your phone's Jellyfin app with JMS (click cast, select, make it default). you browse your library on your phone, press play and automagically full screen video on your TV while you control playback from your phone - pause, skip, stop, switch subtitles, volume, etc.

the remote you've been using with android becomes superfluous - the raspberry becomes just a dumb sink that plays whatever you send it.

I imagine you can rig up some screensaver with rotating wallpapers and clock and weather and whatnot when it's idle.