I need to buy one for an old TV i have. I have plex at home and i use also Stremio + real Debrid. If the device offers a controller it would be nice. Thanks!
Rpi with Libreelec. Then with all the add-ons you need.
Agreed. Also it’s likely you’ll be able to use your TV’s remote with it via CEC or if not you can still use the remote app on your phone.
Nvidia Shield or AppleTV4K.
I use an AppleTV4K with the Infuse app to connect to my NAS. Works flawlessly.
Infuse also has support for Plex. I haven’t tried using it with Real Debrid but it does work apparently by adding it as a WebDAV source.
I use Alldebrid over WebDAV on infuse. The sync times can be incredibly long, opening the magnets folder of my WebDAV takes around 2 minutes with around 300 torrents - around 4k files. You only need to do this long syncing when your library changes, streaming is near instant.
NVIDIA Shield is the best from what I hear.
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Where did you read that as they are still available to buy?
https://store.nvidia.com/en-gb/shield/
Shield and an external DAC would be my pick. My lounge is hooked up to a Marantz SR7011 and the one in my office to a RME DAC 2 as I want a really good headphone amp
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Why would you need newer and more powerful hardware for listening to music? Really doesn’t seem a good use for the money.
The existing shield has been THE longest android device ever and still has ample power to play back even reasonably high quality x265 4k hdr without issue (15gb per hour). Couple with it being one of the most flexible without having to jail break.
The WiiM Pro if you just want audio would be the only other device I would consider as it has Roon support. If you are serious about audio then Roon can be a game changer particularly for multi room audio and multi service audio. Yes you have to pay for Roon, but no FOSS is as easy to setup and use for the average user.
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For music there is no bottleneck, it even properly supports external DACs via USB that almost everything else struggles with.
For video it’s only really missing AV1, which is only a pain for YouTube but not to the point it’s a real problem as I can still watch 4k on YouTube. It does support things like Dolby Vision, HDR10, TrueHD, etc.
For emulation it’s only going to struggle when you get to as recent consoles as the PS2, if modern emulation is what you are after you want a dedicated, powerful, and recent handheld emulator.
The only big thing it cant do is Av1 streaming, and its not really mainstream yet. The only possible upgrade would be a mini pc setup as an htpc, but then you’re giving up android tv. And I don’t think they can stream av1 yet. Afaik there arent any better arm based android tv units on the market than the shield tv. Im planning on changing out my shield tv for an htpc someday, especially now Nvidia has dropped gamestream. Android tv is a headache, and id rather deal with just linux/kodi at this point.
It is, I’ve had one of mine since 2016 and it still works amazingly for anything I’d want from it
Best depends on your needs. For me it’s an Apple TV with Infuse.
I use xiaomi mi tv stick 1080p (android). Works great
Looks like this option is the one that would allow easily having PLEX and stremio + real debrid. AND also not spending an enormous amount of money.
Curious about this, too. I can’t fit stremio and iptv on my firestick, so I’m hoping to find something bigger, but cheaper than a Shield.
I finally decided to buy a Xiaomi TV Box 2nd gen. Sound like is what you are looking for too.
They both appear to have 8GB. The firestick comes with a lot of bloatware, though. If the TV Box doesn’t, that might work.
What about Nokia 8010 or RockTek G2? Been looking at one of these as a jellyfin client, but also retain the possibility of using streaming apps. Otherwise I’d probably throw kodi on a intel N100 based box (some of these can be had fairly cheap)
I use stremio on a formuler Z11 max pro, so far I never had any issues with it
I’ve been able to use xiaomi’s mi boxes with Stremio pretty well
I think i will go for this option. I don’t want to pay a ridiculous amount of money for an Apple TV, RPI or a Nvidia shield to even waste a lot of time researching and configuring crap. I mean, just for Plex and Stremio…
It might also be an affordable option to get a Chromecast too. Very lightweight, honestly pretty cheap, and even if it’s a Google device, you have to log into Google accounts on all the other options anyways so the trade-off isn’t massive. Pretty sure you can load stremio onto it too
I’ve got a CCWGTV and can’t be happier. Replaced the default launcher with Stremio, Streamtube and Kodi prominent at the top.
