Wow thanks for such a thorough answer!

It seems like as of right now meshtastic devices don’t have the ability to finely control LEDs/button actions to work for my use case. Which is a shame since I was hoping I could just buy a meshtastic device that has some programmable buttons inside a pre-built enclosure.

Seems like I’ll have to go down a more advanced route of getting a microcontroller, wiring up buttons and LEDs and getting a custom built enclosure.

Seems like I could get something simple like this heltec device, which is arduino compatible so I could program the buttons and LEDs, then just find/make a case.

It’s kodi I’m not big on, it works fine but the jellyfin addon isn’t fantastic for me, it frequently loses connection when using NFS, if not using NFS, I find it very slow to load media.

The Vero.

It’s the only open source offering, works great with 4k and HDR. Does use OSMC which I’m not a fan of but it works.