I don’t use Home Assistant personally as I also use Apple products, if you read into Homebridge it’s a piece of software that turns smart devices that are not HomeKit enabled devices into HomeKit enabled devices, and enables new functionality to devices that are already HomeKit enabled. Definitely worth considering.

This was significantly cheaper than converting all my Apple products into android products.

To quickly spin it up I would suggest reading into Docker and Docker compose, docker takes applications and containerizes them and lets them run over your network with little configuration.

You will have time find applications that support the Invidious APi, I don’t personally use android/android-TV but on iOS/TvOS I use Yattee.

Given that I host my own instance and don’t typically use the public ones l can just visit my domain an get it with ease.

Invidious has existed for many years, I would also suggest Piped but I’m pretty sure their development cycle is a lot slower.

Finamp certainly needs some work but it’s far better than the native Jellyfin application, at least for iOS/iPadOS, I can now listen to music in the background.

Hell the Finamp contributors took my suggestion on a way to sort playlists and actually implemented it so I gotta say much props to them.

Thought you had to pay for that with Anubis? Recently I’ve been eyeing Go Away as a potential alternative.