HACKER Q&A
📣 philonoist

What are some good apps to have in Android TV


Unlike F-Droid for phone, the app market for TV seems very dispersed and disorganized. Please help me take control of my TV. I can't get a refund for it being too smart for my taste.


  👤 chewz Accepted Answer ✓
VLC is good for radio streams...but you must use http not https URLs (otherwise it doesn't display tags)

go-chromecast for watching Youtube without commercials. Also for casting video files

Built-in Screensaver is nice...

Spotify is great on big screen when TV is connected (digitally) to decent DAC and stereo. My favourite way to listen to music recently..

Sometimes I watch Bloomberg using its app.

I generally keep Google TV in "Apps only" mode... Down to bare minimum.

https://github.com/vishen/go-chromecast

```tv() {go-chromecast --addr '${ADDR}' --port 8009 load $(/opt/homebrew/bin/yt-dlp --config-locations $HOME/.config/yt-dlp -g "$@" | head -n1 ) & }```


👤 genericacct
realvnc so you can connect to a real computer