Turning a living room into a comfortable, responsive media space usually starts with a streamer, and many people default to something like a Chromecast. It is inexpensive, small, and simple to set up, ...

Setting up a new smart TV these days means sitting through a barrage of privacy prompts, account-creation screens, and data-collection agreements. I’ve been guilty of just hitting accept and next to ...

Popular media center software Kodi is an open source, cross-platform application for music, movies, photos, online media, and other content. The software runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, but ...

Have you ever looked at your streaming device and wondered if there’s a better, more customizable option out there? Maybe you’re tired of being locked into a specific ecosystem or paying for features ...

LibreELEC is a lightweight free and open source operating system designed to turn a computer into a media center. The GNU/Linux distribution provides “just enough” of an OS to run the Kodi media ...

When Raspberry Pi single-board computers were introduced in 2012, it seemed like a matter of mere minutes before creators were adapting it into a media center. A decade and change later, it's almost a ...

If you would like to create an open source Raspberry Pi powered alternative to the Apple TV you might be interested in a new project published by Jeff Geerling. That show how you can use a Pi 5 mini ...