Smart TVs can feel like a dumb choice if you’re looking for privacy, reliability, and simplicity. Today’s TVs and streaming sticks are usually loaded up with advertisements and user tracking, making ...

You can build a media center with a Raspberry Pi fairly easily. Kodi is a local media center that can integrate with a broad range of internet sources, local network shares, NAS drives, cloud storage, ...

- My old Zenith remote was setup to control a TV and a VCR, so it has FF, Rew, Play, Pause, Stop, and Record buttons. In my old homebrew IR setup, I'd mapped the play/pause buttons to pause or unpause ...