There was a thread previously, but it’s locked now. How many of y’all have customized your devices far beyond what the retailer ever intended? Here’s the thread to show off your customizations.
I’ll begin.
This is my near perfect Fire Stick 4K Max with Wolf Launcher. I live my life nomadically and this is the perfect device and setup for all of my needs. I currently use an OTG splitter with a USB flash drive attached and ethernet connection hub.
I designed all of this by adding custom icons to the apps and folders. Since I’m using a black background, my icons either need to be transparent or to be a true black background as well. You can easily find these via a Google Image search, which is where I found all of mine.
Going top to bottom, left to right:
Emby satisfies the majority of my on demand streaming needs. I’m connected to a shared library that I pay about $4/month to access that I found through r/embyshares. It has a massive library with a a sleek auto-request service for anything that can’t be found. I’ve used this particularly library for a year now and I’ve never experienced downtime and the streams always load instantly in 1080+ quality.
Next is a folder with 3 music apps: Amazon Music, Spotify, and TuneIn.
Then we have Netflix, courtesy of my mom.
As a backup to Emby, I have access to another library via Plex with a robust array of content and a discord server with auto-requests. Technically, I should be paying for this, but I signed up for a trial and was never removed. That said, I rarely use it as Emby often hits all my needs, but it’s good to have.
Prime Video is probably my least used, especially because the international library is rather weak. That said, it has come in handy from time to time.
Lastly on the top row is SmartTubeNext for a YouTube experience that blocks all the ads, promos, and other junk you don’t want to see.
On the next row, we begin with a folder I labeled Google Play Games. In reality, it’s a folder dump of apks and Android games that are decently fun and run well on the stick. Some of my favorites are the AirConsole collection, Falling Lightblocks (tetris mod), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Blitz Quiz, BombSquad, and a simple chess game.
Next with the IPTV icon is TiviMate connected to an IPTV package that I’m finally happy with. It’s been 8 months now and the streams are fast and HD. I have content all around the world, but mostly watch US TV and movie channels, Mexican channels, and some sports events here and there. I’ve always been able to find what I’ve wanted. I pay $8/month for 1 connection.
Next we have a folder of JackBox games 1-5, great for friends and family together.
Then we have an APK called PSPlay, a custom app that lets you remote into a PlayStation. I have my PS5 at my dad’s house in Florida, which I’m able to remote into from anywhere in the world. It mostly runs fine enough to play, sometimes I do get latency issues though. Still, I can connect my PS5 controller (I usually do wired to help with latency) and play anywhere in the world without lugging around the heavy device.
At the end of this row is RetroArch. Btw, if anyone has figured out how to use a smartphone as a controller on RetroArch, I’m all ears. That’d be huge.
The last row consists of my system tools, with DangBei Assistant, ES File explorer, Wolf Launcher Manager, Analiti speed test, Volume+ booster for those Airbnbs whose TVs can’t pump enough volume, and the … is another dump folder of various apps I don’t regularly use but do on occasion.
With this setup, I am covered anywhere in the world without region locks and can access 98% of the media I’d ever want on demand.
