It is not in a dock. Yea, subnet of laptop is the same as the rest of the network.

I can reach the router from the laptop yes, I can see the laptop and it’s IP on the router too.

I also can’t ping or SSH from the laptop

Laptop cannot ping or access jellyfin server, other devices can ping and access without issues.

It’s important that I can restrict certain users to specific content based on age rating, i dont want to do that manually. the server has content for both kids and adults, and my *arr stack + jellyfin works really well aside from these two devices which have quirks.

I’ve use Kodi years ago, i absolutely hated using it.

A simple and intuitive UI is important, since the kids have to be able to use it as well.

Yeah I really prefer as close to plug-and-play as possible, I don’t want to spend hours tinkering to get something that basic working.

I’ll take a look and see if it’s low effort enough.

Do you know of a solution won’t boots directly to jellyfin and can ONLY be used with that?

stove them out of sight?

We have a fairly minimalistic setup around the TV, there’s nowhere to hide it which is why we originally went with an appleTV because it looks pretty decent.

Was looking for something a bit more elegant…An old laptop is going to look like shit

We pretty much exclusively print photos, for all sorts of things. We never really need to print text pages.

We didn’t buy a crappy inkjet with subscriptions and DRM though

Aah, the audio quality if fine for me, I don’t have exceptionally bad audio quality.

Still pretty impressive ratio though

I’m not getting sync issues at all, the jellyfin client on appleTV simply doesn’t select the audio track I select when I choose something different than default. It works perfectly fine on all other devices, just not appleTV. I only have stereo devices.

What did I write in my OP to suggest audio sync issues? You’re not the first to think that’s my issue, so I must have worded something poorly…

It has to be user friendly enough for a literal 5yo though

Then I wouldn’t be able to filter the contents of the server based on age rating, and since it’s serving content for both adults and kids I kind of want to be able to limit some content to certain users.

I’d rather avoid paid solutions, especially anything subscription based.

Doesn’t need to be the remote, but it does need to work independently of other devices than what’s connected to the TV. Having to cast from a device doesn’t really work with how we use TV watching in our house, especially for the kids since they don’t have their own phones or tablets to do it from.

I don’t have audio sync issues at all. I have issues with appleTV using the wrong audio track when I select something different than the default. E.g. if I select Danish, it shows that it’s using the Danish track but it’s actually playing something else like Finnish or Swedish. This behaviour is only on the appleTV and no other devices.

All other devices stream (locally) just fine without stuttering, I don’t have access to the server outside my home network (intentionally).

The appleTV streams just fine, I just can’t change audio track on that, which mostly impact the kids because they still have limited English skills.

I’m not touching Plex ever, so I’ll have to find another solution, or demote the appleTV to the bedroom because my wife and I watch most things in English anyway so we don’t change the audio track like the kids do.