I’m planning to buy Smart TVs for my house and I wanted to know which TV OS has better support for homelab media apps.

Self-Hosted apps:

  • Jellyfin
  • Immich
  • Nextcloud Memories
  • Funkwhale or Navidrome or Mopidy
  • AudioBookShelf

Non-selfhosted apps I use:

  • Steam Link
  • All Streaming apps (Netflix, Disney+, etc.)
  • YouTube, YT Kids
  • YouTube Music
  • Spotify
  • Audible
  • Chobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Smart TVs are god awful, and I hate the OS on our LG TV. That said there is finally a Jellyfin app on WebOS so it has that going for it now… I’m too cheap to buy a separate box for Jellyfin and stuff for the TV, so I guess it’s good enough… but in general I wish the TV OS got out of the way a little more.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    All the TVs built in stuff is not going to be the best experience. Doubly for self-hosted. A tv with android os, or a dongle inserted into a tv will do much much much better than samsung or lgs apps. An appletv too but then you’re spending a lot more

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      I know. But I need something to fall back to, or meanwhile I have the money to buy all the Chromecasts.

      • Wulpo@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        I agree with echo. A tv with android OS is far better than webOS or Tizen. I have samsung tvs and LG and loading jellyfin onto them is difficult…involving developer mode and toolkits to self compile and manually update. Atleast android OS has access to the same play store as chrome casts.

        Fortunately, if you are looking to spend money on samsung or LG, Sonys run androidOS/google tv in just about all their tvs these days, price is near enough the same and you arent fiddling about just to install an app.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    The chips in these TVs are garbage and will only get worse (relative to current tech) as they age. Get a set top playback device and use exclusively that. Shield Pro is still solid, AppleTV hardware is solid too. Below those are Roku and Fire devices, they will do nearly as well.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s hard to recommend a Google product but Google TV or chromecast with Google TV does the job it’s supposed to do. App support is large and what isn’t there can be installed the same way it can be on an Android phone. I can stream Playstation games to it even though Sony doesn’t support it. Smart TV built in os’s aren’t up to par yet. At least not in the price range I’m buying my tvs.