I tried Kodi with Libelec but it’s still so jank. The Plex app is broken, there is no invidious or YouTube app I found that works. And sometimes it just “thinks” forever and I need to get up and unplug it.

I saw that Plasma Bigscreen was revived and it looks promising, but they don’t have a release yet.

Are there any other options?

  • Kailn
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    2 hours ago

    ???
    No?
    I said you can run way waydroid on a Wayland Desktop to natively run streaming apps on your RPI5. (Plex, Youtube, netflix or whatever service you’re on)
    This has nothing to do with your TV remotes nor hdmi-cec.
    (reads description again) oh

    No, IR input support is now integrated into the linux kernel [BPF] & can be manually done with LIRC,
    Well I don’t have a RPI to test this nor use my TV remote to control media, just for volume;
    Can’t say for sure if Rasbarian supports most remotes ether, but LineageOS TV Does (Scroll),

    Sorry, I can’t help with that, however, a budget, 2.4GHz, wireless mouse was enough for me, maybe KDE Connect or Unified Remote (non-free) can help if you wanna use your phone instead.

    CEC support is up to the (media) software &or OS you’re using, waydroid is a container-like “runtime” to boot android on linux without virtualization, it’s not a an OS that supports IR input or shutting your TV with your TV Remote, I don’t think most desktop enviroment does support it nor must, KDE Bigscreen might but it’s a DE tailored for such use…

    So, if launching plex with your TV remote is a priority, then here’s Android(TV) & a Custom Recovery (Gapps & Root Flashing) for RPI5 so you can treat it as an android box.
    (unoffical tho, seems like LineageOS team into the BananaPi instead)