Raspberry Pi home-made TV boxes

Reverend Conehead

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I'm curious if anyone here has ever built his own TV box with Kodi or some other app. I'm considering doing that myself. I already own two used Raspberry Pi mini computers that were gifted to me by my brother because he wasn't using them anymore. I like my Roku TV box okay, but I keep getting more and more annoyed with Youtube. They've gotten more and more unreasonable with their ads. The ads used to only play before a video. Now they've set it so that the ads actually interrupt the video, sometimes even mid-sentence. Quite annoying, and they want you to sign up for the paid Youtube. I think if I build my own Kodi TV box there might be a way to block Youtube ads. I was okay with watching the ads before a video, but now that they've pulled this interrupt thing, they've gotten too big for their britches.

So it may be time to bust open these old RPs and figure out how to do it. I may also be able to have it be a retro gaming box with old games like Asteroids and Space Invaders, which would be pretty cool. Just curious if someone has done this.
 

cowboyec

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i know of a professor who built a radio out of a coconut.
also made a hut out of some bambo.
don't think he built a tv out of fruit tho.
wouldn't bet against him.
but i wouldn't take my boat to him to get fixed.
can't plug a hole to save his life...or the lives of 6 others.
 

speedkilz88

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I have had Kodi on an RPi2, but currently have kodi sideloaded on a firestick 4k. I don't think you can do it on roku but on the firestick you can use a downloader app and download smart youtube which functions just like youtube without the ads. There is also a way to make a raspberry pi block the ads on every device on your network called a pi hole.

 
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