How are speeds when done this way? I’ve got a gigabit connection and I hate “wasting” most of it when I can’t get better than ~50mbps through PIA (I know, first world problems...)

The convection effect of the moving water is absolutely effective for this sort of thing. Alton Brown does a good breakdown and demo here (albeit for the opposite effect of raising temperature):

If the Kodi plugin PseudoTV works with the Plex content I’ll jump on board for sure. That’s the one big think I miss from XBMC/Kodi.

Aren’t the remotes *not* IR?