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I can tell you the easiest and cheapest way to do it
Buy one of those little android TV steaming ONN dongles from Walmart. They are like twenty or thirty bucks. Then sideload SmartTube to it.
Enjoy
I think they could install android TV on that pi they have, make this solution free.
Idk, not something I've done, and based on 30 seconds of googling it it looks like it would be annoying, but I'll let OP decide what is worth doing.
I've seen way too many reports about how those things are filled with spyware to ever trust them.
That's the great thing about Android, you can just disable everything you don't want to run. That's what I did.
I'm sure that's perfectly fine in 99.9% of cases but I can never rid that niggling doubt in the back of my head that thinks the cheap devices (especially Chinese) are backdoored or have some deeper malware embedded on the system. It's the unknown that kills me, as stupid as that is. At least I know what type of shit LG TV is phoning home.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on-amazon-are-laced-with-malware/
Well, they seem to work pretty well. They sell these on the shelf in Walmart. Seems to be mostly bloat free, if not disable the stuff. They are pretty fast, the remote is good. I run a VPN on mine anyway. For the price they are probably the best bang for the buck.
I'll have to look into it more seriously. I've been considering a ChromeCast for a while but this is swaying me more to the Android TV side. I usually don't make these purchases lightly or until I have a really strong motivation to.
I mean for twenty bucks, you wouldn't be out much. Check out it
I got a chromecast with remote used for $23 and put smart tube on it. With a third party launcher no ads.