On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > I want a SERVER running on the TV, so I can - on my laptop! - "mount > //TV/USB-drive/A", and copy stuff FROM my laptop TO the USB, while it's > physically connected to the TV! > > Especially if I've got 2 terabytes of hard drive physically attached to > the TV, I don't want to have to keep on disconnecting/reconnecting the > disk to copy stuff on to it.
I think it makes way more sense to just host a media server of some sort on Linux and point everything to it, rather than try to turn a TV running some proprietary smart TV OS into one. If you're running Jellyfin or Plex or whatever on Linux, then adding media to it is basically the same as putting any other sort of file onto a linux box. You have ssh, samba, nfs, various web applications, etc. You could just run it on a Pi though the performance wouldn't be great (probably would beat the performance of using a smart TV as a file server though). -- Rich
