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TV-friendly YouTube frontend (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I'm building a media center PC and am looking for a tv-controller friendly UI for YouTube. My best case scenario is basically Smarttube as is available on Android TVs. It is a perfect app, but I believe it's not attainable on desktop.

I'm willing to use either Windows or Linux, and have a moderate level of competence in the latter.

I'd prefer that it function well with Kodi. Is the Kodi YouTube plugin any good? Another option I'd like to explore is Freetube or Invidious, but a surface level amount of research hasn't shown me any TV-like UIs.

Previously, I've used a spoofed user agent to trigger YouTube's native TV UI, but it's pretty shit and I'd prefer to not go there directly in any case.

Any insight is appreciated, even if it's a suggestion to post this to another community. Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would really like to know as well. NewPipe is a pain to navigate on TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Since you said you use NewPipe on a TV, I assume it's some sort of Android TV? Why don't you just use SmartTube?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mostly because it's not available in F-Droid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does F-Droid even have an Android TV client?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The regular F-Droid client works (but it's even harder to navigate than NewPipe). I should probably just try SmartTube, since it has auto-update capability anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I just adb installed the SmartTube APK from my laptop over the network

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

SmartTube self updates BTW. So once its loaded you dont need to do it again. Same with S0und for Twitch.