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.

  • Zexks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What up are you using. I have several and the performance isn’t quite what I expected. Specifically over Wi-Fi. It has a really hard time with anything 1080 or above. 1080 will usually play but heavily buffered and occasionally stuttering. I’ve had to upgrade to mini pc’s and even they can’t do the 2k’s and up. I’ve got a couple of Marvel movies in 2k and even on the minis they stutter really bad.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • Qkall@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Very ambitious project. I hope that you get this working and it’s cross-platform this would be a big deal for a lot of like arm pcs

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thank you! I will do my best. Btw: Feel free to test and feedback on my kodi-peertube addon. Beware, its very early in development.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thanks for mentioning this! Sources are always very helpful. :)

      It’s probably a good idea for me to look through their sourcecode if available so I know how to communicate with steam back and forth.

      Of course I need to make/find one that works for kodi since I dont want to switch everything for playing steam. Also I want the other folks that use kodi to be able to play steam games.