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by ragesh 1583 days ago
> need to pull out a wireless keyboard & mouse to watch netflix

I run Kodi on a Raspberry Pi for this exact reason. The Pi's HDMI has CEC support built-in, which means the TV's remote works seamlessly with Kodi's UI. This works great for my Netflix needs.

Unfortunately, most (all?) PC graphics don't do CEC out of the box. I've seen USB adapters that can add this functionality to PCs but I've never tried any of them.

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Do you use Raspberry Pi 4? Does it handle 1080p h265? And 4K BluRay rips?
The Pi mk4 can do up to 4k (HDR) with the most recent Kodi updates. Really nice. Mine unfortunately requires a smol fan because otherwise it would randomly reboot, luckily Noctua makes 40mm silent fans. Connected on the GPIO pins for 5V, it's more than enough.
Kodi can do netflix now?
I think there is a plugin for it. Pretty sure its probably just a wrapper around netflix over some browser. Netflix killed their 3rd party API awhile ago and killed support for all the platforms techies would use.