I make my own media player using a Raspberry Pi 3 and OSMC. For those of you who are beginners, Raspberry Pi is a cheap Single Board Computer (SBC) which costs somewhere near to 40 Swiss Francs. OSMC stand for Open Source Media Centre. It is a Debian based Linux distribution with Kodi installed. Kodi is the package that provides the media player functionality.
With my Media Player/TV box, I have turned my “not so smart” TV into a Smart TV. What I like about my TV box is that I have full control over it unlike an Apple TV or Android TV box.
The essential parts are:
Raspberry Pi 3
Micro 8GB SD card (Class 10)
An HDMI cable (ensure it is not a really old one)
Micro USB power supply
I assume one wants a presentable media player then I additionally recommend:
Heat Syncs
A housing case
Before you go out and buy I recommend that you read up on the Raspberry Pi and OSMC by going to their official pages – https://www.raspberrypi.org/
https://osmc.tv/
Here is a Raspberry Pi 3 OSMC media player that I have built for less than 70 Swiss Francs.
