[dash488]

Roku and AndroidTV aside, has someone come up with an opensource alternative to either of these spammy services?

Im in neither camp as I have had both functionalities preinstalled on a TV. Recently with my newer Android TV it is riddled with ADs and is noisy on my network with telemetry data, even when not in use. When I just want to turn it on and play PS4, it takes time to load the latest on Amazon Prime, Netflix and whatever other streaming service they are shilling, none which I pay for. When most of my media is on Plex or a gaming system. I just want my TV to be dumb again.

[AceJohnny2]

Kodi/XBMC? Plex?

Unfortunately that's only for local media. Obviously all the commercial streaming services have DRM that make them incompatible with open-source.

[blendergeek]

There is an "app" for most commerical services available for Kodi. These apps do not break DRM (they use an extracted Widevine binary from ChromeOS).

These app are not official however and are not in the main repositories for Kodi. Just search the Kodi forums for the service you need and you will find the app (for most services that I know about).

[croutonwagon]

Plex has its own telemetry and doesn’t really make devices per-se. it’s an App, including on Roku.

My hous is basically all rokus at this point. But I do keep the isolated on their own net and behind pi-holes.

I’d love an opensource alternative that can do all the things Roku does. Netflix, Hulu (though I don’t have it), prime, or Plex etc.

Sure with something like atomictoolkit you can do it all in Plex, to a degree. But I even use YouTube for things like guitar lessons/song learning etc.

To be fair. I can probably do that with those options. Roku was simple enough that I can work around. I should probably do some better research on alternatives.

[commoner]

KDE is making an attempt with Plasma Bigscreen:

https://plasma-bigscreen.org

It runs on the Raspberry Pi 4.