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Using an old laptop as TV box with remote control
Hello. Before I ask my main question, I would like to tell you my problem. My wife did the mistake to show my father-in-law Netflix and of course he wanted to watch it on his large TV. But the TV is not a smart model. I thought I could fix it with a small TV box running Android 7 and connected to the TV with HDMI. Yes, Netflix worked with the TV box until my father-in-law complained it was in English only without any way to change the language or at least making subtitles larger. I thought I could just upgrade to the last Netflix version and sure enough, the language was automatically changed to Greek. Still no way to make subtitles larger, but they were better than the previous version. Unfortunately, this version required a mouse to work! You could not control it with the remote control!
At this point I would like to ask, do you know of any patch or other workaround to control Netflix with the remote control?
In order to save myself listening to my father-in-law complaining he doesn't like to use a mouse, I installed the old version back and explained he has to live with this.
And here comes my main question. I have an old laptop running Windows 10 that I can connect to the TV. Is there any way to control it with a remote control? I remember Windows Vista and 7 had Windows Media Center and you could use a special remote control. What about Windows 10? Are there any special remotes and software to use it similarly? I do have the Media Center remote control, but I would rather not give it to my father-in-law. Any third party solutions? Assuming I connect the USB receiver and I use the remote control, how can I control Netflix and YouTube?
Thanks a lot!
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