• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Any way to connect it to an internal network so I can still cast from local devices? Otherwise it’s just going to exist plugged into a laptop.

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      15 days ago

      Something like a chromecast would be the easiest solution.

      Me personally, I just like having a media pc hooked up to my tv. I bought an amazon fire tv cause it was fairly cheap for 4k and its never been hooked up to the internet.

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      15 days ago

      Depends on your router. Some have the ability to disable internet access to single devices while leaving their internal network access intact.

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      You probably can give it a static ip through your router and block any access to the internet for it. Could even set up pihole to block the ads from coming in to any device. That said, it’s possible the TV has built in ads or error messages to show in place of the ads when offline/blocked, or may just not even work if offline for longer than x minutes/hours/days

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          Samsung, AFAIK, doesn’t have a streaming service so that doesn’t matter.

          We weren’t talking about ADs on some streaming service, we’re talking about ADs displayed on the TV from Samsung themselves

          Also, AD proxying with content isn’t always guaranteed, I’ve seen YT do it ofc

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          Not sure about Samsung devices but I’ve got a few Rokus and my pihole does a great job of blocking ads.

          They still push “promotions” into the menus and every month I have to go through and turn them off, but I don’t see ads in the UI.

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        15 days ago

        I have an old Intel nuc that I could slap a hard drive in. It wouldn’t have to handle all traffic, right?

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      That’s how I handled my “smart” TV - I had a spare minipc from my old homelab, threw Linux on it and plugged it into the HDMI port.

      It has never connected to my network, despite the BestBuy employee insisting it would need firmware updates for better picture.

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        Omg, that reminds me of a time when a retail employee insisted that installing Linux on a particular machine would rock crashing the hard drive. This was, oh, maybe 2006 or so.

        I did not buy a new computer that day.

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      15 days ago

      You can probably get a DNS based ad blocker and configure your router DHCP to assign it to devices.

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      Sure, break it’s routing. You can give it a fake DNS server (like a pihole that blocks everything), you could set up routing rules that block everything not addressed in the network ip range, there’s a ton of ways I can think to do it off the top of my head. It might require some tinkering though