I've been using Chromecasts and it's gotten so slow and buggy. I was trying to cast from VLC on my phone to it and I had a ton of trouble getting it to show up and connect and after I finished streaming from my phone I tried to switch to the YouTube app and it just kept on crashing.
It's 2024, I'm tired of dealing with shitty tv streaming experiences. I want something completely uncompromising. I want a silky smooth experience and I don't want it to randomly break on my.
I'm thinking about shelling out for a shield TV, but I'd rather have control over my device since I don't want to deal with the manufacturers fucking around with my device after the fact.
I'd love to be able to set up a raspberry pi for this, but would I be able to get a seamless experience? I don't mind doing extra up front work to get it set up, but I don't want it to be an ongoing maintenance thing, and I'd like it to work with Chromecast so it's easy to stream to from a variety of devices.
Can I actually pull that off with a raspberry pi or should I go with the shield TV?
What are you casting? if its just youtube then why not just use the app? the only way to find out is to try it out, I suggest pi 5 as its much more compatible with android but at that price you might as well just got an android device if casting is the most imbortant thing to you ie firestick, roku stick.
Edit: or just a google chromecast device?
there used to be rpicast but that hasnt kept up with android releases and youd be casting to a rpi os desktop which would probably be a bit more hands on than it sounds like you want it to be
I was casting video files from VLC. When I switched to YouTube I was trying to use the YouTube app on the Google tv. I'm starting to think my Google tv might be fucked up somehow so maybe I need to do a factory reset, but I have 2 of them and while ones better than the other, neither is that smooth.