Am in the process of retiring my appleTV for a raspberryPI with LibreELEC. It is pretty awesome so far. A couple small things do need work but thats for the future.
Right now I‘m looking to at least get kind of feature parity for the things I use. Mainly I run plex for music, shows and movies as well as youtube and twitch, all very performant, even on wifi. As some of you might have noticed, I have recently released a next gen peertube addon to help with peertube adoption and accessibility.
My only nonstarter so far seems to be steamlink. It runs great on appleTV so I figured it must be doable on kodi as well since the pi4 is powerful and kodi does everything else very well.
I found this library today on my journey: https://github.com/ValvePython/steam
If anyone wants to help developing the addon, let me know.
Hi there! I‘m using composite for plex. You are right though. Wifi is no good for 1080 plus. I have wired my living room pi which plays 1080, with no problems ever since. The bedroom pi with 720p on wifi works perfectly as well.
The important part here is that we need to improve on kodi/its addons because the pi can actually do a lot imo.
From a poweruser/hobbydev perspective, there could be a lot of reasons for issues. I do think the python base isnt insanely fast, the hardware does not seem to be fully utilized by the video addons so there is room upwards. If wifi is so problematic although it should be fine with 100mbit+, the protocol might be too dependent on latency or bandwith. We should monitor the bandwith usage and optimize that.
For this to work, we need more people to work on this stuff and the rest to donate some money. I suggest everyone who is financially stable to donate 1% of their income to open source if they use any of it. Those who cant should write a letter/email to their political reps to push for more funding.
Our enemies are those who do not act.