Request for e/OS variant for Android TV devices

/e/OS Devices Request a Device
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Hi everyone.

A bit of intro to myself. I’m new to this community but I’m FOSS (Linux, ASOP&friends) fan and user for already almost 20 year. Once custom ROMs became available, my choice of new smartphones was starting with the “Can I install a custom ROM on it ?” question. Currently I have FP4 with e/OS installed and I’m happy that it provides privacy I need and on the other hand, it is normal smartphone with OS which allows me install the apps I need. OK, enough about me :wink:

I came to this community with the request to build a e/OS for Android TV boxes. This devices are well known for privacy and security worse than the Android OS for smartphones. I’d expect similar privacy level as of e/OS for smartphones, DRM protected content capabilities and possibility to sideload apps. The reason I ask this is that there is less and less of privacy in the digital content consumption on the big screens. I had LibreELEC installed to Raspberry Pi CM4 with unofficial Netflix addon and it worked for ~3 years just fine until recently. The addon developer dropped it because it was not possible to workaround Netflix and make the addon to work.

So my next thought was - what if e/OS Foundation could step in and provide several selected Android TV devices with their brilliant OS ? That would be awesome !

Could anyone from the project/foundation team comment on such possibility ?

Regards
ArturasB

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forum history has a few threads on Android TV and SBCs, checkout

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Thank you for sharing. I checked those sources already, but I thought that maybe there were some recent developments of the topic.

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what the threads are missing is feedback on how the already present builds for 5-6 device fare. If there’d be some, ronnz probably would’ve updated the builds. You have any of those devices?

The rpi4 ended up on the “difficult” portion of his 2023 list though. Maybe it’s time for another go at it, there are request-threads at

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I have no device. My intention was to check what’s supported and then buy something. Raspberry is not a requirement.

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one of the amlogic dongles imo (I’d probably go for the wade) - try one of ronnz older builds, I’m sure he can put out rebuilds depending on feedback. I had a sabrina, but unfortunately the non-jailbreakable kind and abandoned the whole thing, a regular x86 linux box for htpc is less hassle frankly

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Yes, if you are not interested to DRM protected online streaming services :smiley:

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netflix will do 720p on any linux machine, used to do 1080p h264 with some user-agent trickery

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would highly appreciate solutions to get Lineage or e/os on A-TV-Smart-TVs, esp. mobile Beamers.

Maybe another place to learn something (esp. regarding codec-/widevine-support but even there its not even near a certifyable generic solution): Waydroid-ATV