Barcode Scanner (F-Droid) is another app that will decode a QR code from an image.

That looks amazing! Are the icons you have there, for example, Netflix, is that a desktop shortcut to open up the browser and load the website?

Your use case is very similar to mine. Thank you for sharing.

I tried Kodi in the past but switched over to Emby. Not 100% sure if there is an Emby plugin but the wife and kids are use to the Emby interface.

Plasma Bigscreen looks very cool but spent time trying to figure out why some of the widgets on the main screen loads up then freeze. Like the Mycroft widget, for example.

Also trying to figure out why apps like Kate appears twice under Applications.

I have not tried Bliss OS. Looks very interesting so I will take a look. Thank you for that one.