People into Jellyfin use smart TVs? I haven't connected mine to the internet.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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Not every Jellyfin user is also the server administrator. If someone sets up a server and shares that server with 5 people, most of those users aren't concerned with the privacy implications of how they connect to the server; they just want to consume content as easily as they do with Netflix, Disney, etc.
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I do? I don't love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.
I would like a less smart tv but I don't want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.
So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV
And how much better would a TV box even be compared to a smart TV?
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This feels like some really niche gatekeeping.
Having a smart tv doesn't mean you must use internet to utilize it. Mine is blocked from internet connectivity but connects to my media server on the local network. If anything, I prefer this so I don't need an extra computer sitting in the living room and can instead use the same single media server my phones and computers do.
Family connect to my server with tv. If tv is in the same house everything is blocked and select things are whitelisted.
We have both.
Kodi use Jellyfin for its media library and Kodi is excellent for a lot of the TV we watch. catch Up TV has replaced the decoder for watching terrestrial TV.
One thing that sucks in Kodi though is Arte (a franco-german channel that is a leans towards "intellectual"). For that, the LG WebOS app is much better than the Kodi add-on. Other than that 1 app, we could happily plug Kodi into digital signage panel if they weren't stupidly expensive.
It's relatively easy to restrict a smart tv to TLS/HTTPS traffic only using your router and a dns adblocker.
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Game changer
I had to practically hack my Samsung TV I order to get jellyfin on it. A little annoyed it took this long but at least its there now.
There's a funny one-click tool here: https://github.com/Jellyfin2Samsung/Samsung-Jellyfin-Installer but I guess it's not necessary anymore
Damn that looks like it would have saved me some time.
Wow this is great news!
Literally just went through getting the app built /deployed for my parents and my partner's parents using the old method a few weeks ago. I'm super glad the app is on the app store, but it's just bad timing for me lol
Just run a small linux pc and a wireless keyboard+mouse
I use libux btw
My gosh I just searched for libux, thinking maybe there was a great new Linux user experience out there for my media library. I even got confused for a split second when it autocorrected my search to Linux before realising the typo
I use libuv btw.
I use pibtv btw.
I'd rather use an Android TV box, so I can have Dolby Vision, etc.
Wait, I don't have to update it through dev mode?
That's awesome! I had to side load it and it was such a pain in the ass i just bought a Chromecast.
Yeah, I've had to help two friends connect to my server from Samsung TVs. It was annoying to say the least.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.
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i reckon ill unblock it from WAN long enough to get a new app
I only own one Samsung TV. Its a really smart TV. Its magnificent. It never switches input which is a good thing since I never need to. This is because it has no built in services of the so called 'smart tv's"
hell yeah
I use it through tailscale. I can still use it locally (yay). Still would like to see tailscale on tizen
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