Evening Lemmy,
I have run into a small hiccup in my self-hosting journey. Youtube on my TV in the living room has ads… and they become more unbearable by the day. To that end, I’d like to set up a Raspberry Pi (Or something) to run as a one-stop for media. Ideally, I’d like it to have YouTube (Or more likely NewPipe/FreeTube), Steam Link and access to my Jellyfin instance. More ideally, I’d like this to be controllable with a controller (TV Remote, Steam controller, doesn’t matter). The reason for the latter is that I’d rather not create too much trouble for my wife when she uses the TV.
I’ve done some looking, and I seem to be able to get an Amazon Firestick to run NewPipe, and Jellyfin, and maybe even the Steam Link but from the stories I’ve read it’s… less than ideal. So, I was hoping there may be an alternative.
The goal is to get all three in one system, with decently user friendly functionality.
Has anyone set something similar up, and could you point me in a direction.
Could also run pihole or adguard on your network to just start blocking ads all across your devices as a starter step. Get an OpenWRT router to make it super easy, or just run a standalone pi as a DNS server.
I do have a pi-hole set up, but alas it won’t stop YT ads.
While you should do this to block your TVs telemetry and other undesirable behavior, realize that YouTube native TV app ads can’t be blocked at DNS level alone without also blocking the core functionality of YouTube, due to the way it serves the ads.
Eh, not quite accurate. YouTube was battling DNS ad blocking in browsers. Took them awhile to push to mobile apps to try and do the same, and I still largely never see any YT ads across any of my devices just by using AdGuard in my network. TVs and media players are even further behind in updates of official YT apps that do so. Hell, if your smart TV or whatever isn’t getting regular updates, you may be set just by DNS blocking.