We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering… anything you can think of or things you already do. I’m tired of doom scrolling.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 day ago

    I use my old phones that still work as media players, I uninstall almost everything and basically only use VLC on them to watch stuff on my NAS. They’re like tiny TV’s scattered around the house.

    Now I just only need to learn how to broadcast locally from the PC so they can play the same thing at the same time. I know VLC can do it because I’ve seen dozens of tutorials but they all must be missing something because it never worked for me.

    • PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 hours ago

      Highly recommend Jellyfin on your NAS. Sounds like that is what your looking for. Very straight forward and easy to implement compared to other self host options.

      Essentially, vid files located on your nas, and then any device on your wifi can stream the vids.

      If your looking for your own personal netflix, jellyfin is your answer.

      • quediuspayu@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I considered Jellyfin many times and never looked too much into it, it is one of those thing I want to try. At the moment I’m comfortable enough with a plain old file browser and a samba share.

        What I tried many times unsuccessfully is to broadcast the same thing to all devices in the local network.

        My ultimate goal (or ultimate wish, I’m having troubles translating) would be to broadcast video in my network imitating regular TV. With a preprogrammed schedule of shows and movies, even better if at certain times it could pick something at random from a playlist or a folder. Yesterday I read that OBS might be able to do something like that.

    • dangrousperson@feddit.org
      7·
      23 hours ago

      You can use Open Source Sunshine and Moonlight for inhome broadcasting. You install sunshine on the source PC and use the moonlight app on the phones.

      https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/releases https://moonlight-stream.org/

      It’s meant for game streaming, so it supports controller pass through and what not, but you can also use it to just stream the desktop. It also supports multiple clients, although I have never tried that personally.