Playlet Backend

[rammjet]

Removing my invidious link in the Playlet app interface wasn't enough. I had to login to the server at http://myip:8888 and logout in my profile.

Now, how do I get subscriptions and playlists into the Playlet backend?

[iBicha]

When you change the Invidious instance in the settings, your current profile remains on the previous instance. Profiles belong to their respective instances, they are not portable.

The playlet backend does not support accounts yet. Invidious instances have real servers and databases to store users, subscriptions, and so on. This is not possible to do on a Roku device.

If Playlet supports accounts one day, it will be regular YouTube accounts. But right now, we're not there yet.

[rammjet]

So, when you say that we will no longer need an invidious instance, we really need one to maintain the account for subscriptions and playlists even if it is not connecting to YouTube?

[iBicha]

That's right. There are three things that are tied to accounts: Subscriptions, Playlists (saved playlists in an Invidious profile) and Watch history. These can't be realistically stored on device with only 32KB of storage (yes, that's the space available to Roku channels) - and also a Roku device is not powerful enough to query the latest videos from the subscription list by itself (without a server/database)

[rammjet]

I'm not criticizing, just trying to understand. The info below led me to believe that I would no longer need invidious:

Built-in Playlet backend, which supports channels, playlists, and search
    This backend is experimental, and has a few missing features.
    To use it, set the Invidious instance to an empty string.

[iBicha]

No worries, happy to clarify: you can open channels, playlists, and search.
I also phrase it differently in the announcement "This allows you to access YouTube content without the need for an Invidious instance." So you can access content, and this is especially useful when all instances are down/api blocked.