I use a good digital tuner (HDHomeRun) hooked up to my rusty old 1950's rooftop antenna usually using KODI as front end, it's awesome and satisfies my live TV need which is very minimal. I couple that with real-debrid which offers plentiful and reliable supply of cached 4K (actually high bit rate) torrents and it's a much better experience than any of the alternative, crappy, ad-laiden streaming services I've paid for. Once KODI has seamlessly integrated voice control it will be in a league of it's own. I'm not sure how services like real-debrid can work out such great licensing terms to allow their offer of such affordable, ad-free and limitless content catalogs but I assume it's a very technical, economy-of- built-for-scale redundant kubermnetes based on-demand cloud container architecture benifit that wouldn't interest me anyways so I'm not even gonna try and understand it ;-)
A couple of tips if you try again:
I don't understand the real-debrid "points" system and didn't really care to disect it, just payed for premium service directly through their website and that's been sufficient.
Multiple devices are allowed but it's IP siloed and if connecting from multiple IP's simultaneously, cannot confirm but redditors report that will get your account banned rather promptly although obvious workarounds like a VPN etc exist, never tried.
There's been a lot of work done that add new interface, host/account/stream handeling features to various addons recently. Just tried a recent version of 'Gaia' and was pleasently surprised.
Most newer addons use URLResolver for a central config source and include links from their interface to do the device authorization for rd.
I prefer speed and simplicity so I disable every host/provider except rd and set max sources to single digits.
Content discovery is relatively non existent using most addons (a perk IMO, there's no shortage of places
to discover content without inserting an ad server into the TV's interface)
Flashing LibreELEC on to cheap ARM (android TV Boxes) devices makes for a cheap, stable, simple client device.
A Fire Stick/TV or similar might allow for easy voice search but I'm too stubborn in my love of FOSS (I secretly enjoy configuration nightmares) to try it ;-)
There's a plethora of similar premium hosts and services (using rd and premiumize is a popular suggestion) but rd is enough for our needs so far.
Look on the 'Addons4Kodi' subreddit to see what the kids are using nowadays
I use a good digital tuner (HDHomeRun) hooked up to my rusty old 1950's rooftop antenna usually using KODI as front end, it's awesome and satisfies my live TV need which is very minimal. I couple that with real-debrid which offers plentiful and reliable supply of cached 4K (actually high bit rate) torrents and it's a much better experience than any of the alternative, crappy, ad-laiden streaming services I've paid for. Once KODI has seamlessly integrated voice control it will be in a league of it's own. I'm not sure how services like real-debrid can work out such great licensing terms to allow their offer of such affordable, ad-free and limitless content catalogs but I assume it's a very technical, economy-of- built-for-scale redundant kubermnetes based on-demand cloud container architecture benifit that wouldn't interest me anyways so I'm not even gonna try and understand it ;-)