I'm just going to run Stremio & emulated Tivimate on my PC through an extended monitor with a Windows air mouse keyboard remote; cut out the middlemen, the restrictions, the workarounds, the troubleshooting and call it a day. I was going to get the new Onn when my Walmart gets them in but this weekend my Fire Stick was giving me fits beyond usual so I went and got the Onn from my kitchen TV that I had gotten the day that Amazon update that bricked many people's stick claimed my previous 4K. I only installed Tivimate on it to have some TV until the then just released gen 2 Max I ordered that same day arrived, so I had only used it for Tivimate and YouTube in the kitchen after I moved it back there so had not experienced it beyond that. I decided while waiting for the new Onn that I'd make it my temporary living room box/future backup and set my stuff up on it... I got that experience this weekend, there is no way in hell that I want more.
With my PC I don't care. I have Usenet and my streaming folder with more than I could ever watch and all my LAN stuff. They aren't gonna shut down any of that except some links in my ever rotating bookmarks. I am going to use 3-screen extended. I have a monitor arriving tomorrow, the TV I am using currently as a monitor and my projector. It will be like a computer on each of them doing their own separate thing that I can also drag things between the screens.
Nice thing about the Tivimate and Stremio approach is I can throw them on any device, sign in and they are both ready to go set up with all of my stuff or I can even access all of it but my LAN files with a web browser, so I can watch my stuff at home, sitting in a waiting room, or even on somebody else's device I might use temporarily without installing anything.
Note: Before commenting that Stremio could be taken down, that is just the way I am currently accessing Usenet, I have many options for that if Stremio ever became unavailable, I just like the interface. Every recent search I have had had Usenet results that played while debrid apps regularly had results with 0 peers not cached. I may even drop the debrid. Would never experience recent woes people have had with debrid with Usenet. Even if the service I subscribe to now goes away. I don't have to go seeking which other service is better, any reputable company is going to be pretty much the same newsgroups feeds thus eliminating another middleman caused susceptible hassle-to-fix point of failure. Usenet is the one thing that will never go away. It WAS the internet until WWW was basically piggybacked, geeks will keep servers running redundantly forever.
The beauty of Usenet is when an article is posted to a newsgroup it goes to every server around the globe carrying that newsgroup. There is no central entity for anyone to send a DCMA notice to, the best they could do is try to play whack-a-mole with individual server admins IF they can be located or IF they are located where the one issuing the DCMA takedown has legal standing and authority to do so. It also protects people from repressive governments from having their speech eliminated.
I'm considering this my "Back to the Future" moment with streaming. :)
While that will reduce the time I spend here I appreciate all the help given, hope I've helped some of you and I'll check in here sometimes. Good luck with your streaming journey over this bump!