I might fire this up to test it out

Not currently available to download according to the official page:

"As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn't available for public use yet. This is due to not being developed for so long. The project has been revived, but it might take a while until it becomes stable and is available for public use."

That said, if this could run on top of the standard linux OS on my MiniPC (like Steam Big Picture), then I'd give it a go!

Never heard of this. So glad there is an alternative to android TV and Roku. Going to give it a shot.

Excellent. The umbrella of KDE is home to a bunch of my favorite applications. Kdenlive, Krita, Digikam. I've been hotly anticipating the day I get a phone running Plasma Mobile

This may be better eventually than Plasma Mobile for what I imagined as an ideal gaming frontend that isn't just Steam Big Picture

Maybe someday Waydroid and Android Translation Layer will make Linux as a HTPC+gaming great

itll be faster than android tv, no gplaysvc taking all resources

That's exciting. It looks very clean, but until it has the tv remote support aspect I think it'll wait

and some games like SuperTuxKart are playable

shows a screenshot of SuperTux, an entirely different game

I just hope for a TV that is rootable where I can install whatever ROM I want, I just want to own my TV. KDE keeps making our future bright

I'm incredibly hyped for this!

It would be nice if they would overcome the 720p/1080p limitation imposed by some stream services https://androidpcreview.com/netflix-hd-android-tv-box/

Does anyone know if there are any plans to port this to raspberry pi?

I had lots of problems with the previous version when turning the TV off/on while it's running, like losing keyboard access (no focus) until you use the mouse at least once and it updating the display settings every time. Hope it's getting better now.

TBH the keyboard focus issue is happening on most Login Managers and DEs, so it's not really their fault. I will try it out some time, until then I keep using my SteamOS install.

Nice! I wanted to use this, but my env already had plasma 6, I'd like to replace the TV os

Tried this 6-9 months ago and it was a shambles that I could hardly get working.

The main issue (once it was working) was program (Stremio) not supporting keyboard only options.

I also wanted to run android apps full screen (like a dog nvidia shield) but it was chaos.

I thought it was abandoned.

That does not look better than project ivy launcher imho.

From the 100 reasons to choose this over android tv, subjective thing like "better UI" is not one.

Does it support SmartTube? Jellyfin? Refresh rate and resolution changing based on signal? Bitstream? Codecs? Exo player is a great default player used by many apps, what's this ones alternative?

I'm curious why you'd choose this over kodi or something like bazzite. What specifically are the advantages?

So judging by the comments this is something you would install as a DE on a Linux distro, perhaps on a miniPC, not something running on the SmartTV itself?

So sexy. KDE ate as usual

I want it to be run as a desktop environment. Is that possible? I already have laptop connected to tv with hdmi. I just use it like a normal computer. But I don't have any applications that can work well with that setup with TV like UI.

With it being virtually impossible not to buy a "smart" TV, giving people the option to have connected software that doesn't phone home is a great idea. I wish the average person was more aware of these types of options.

Hopefully this will work with Google TV too since it's essentially just an Android TV rebrand for Chromecast. Some of them have decent hardware though, but are held back by the all of the Google bloat. Even using apps that allow adb on Google TVs you can't fully remove it all without soft-bricking the TV.

I've tried setting Kodi up on a few TVs that I've fixed, then put them on a VLAN so they couldn't go online, but could still access my NAS. And even with some having hardware support for AV1, anything over 4-5Mbps or so would cause them to drop frames and lag out. The HEVC support was a little better and will usually do 10-20Mbps+ before running into issues, which is plenty for most YarTube content. So I did a little more digging and noticed that the CPU was sitting at a constant 30%+ usage just doing background bloatware bullshit. So if we had a better UI option, it would open up a lot of cheaper $200-300 4K Google TVs that can stream from a NAS or Jellyfin/Plex server without needing to transcode. Since they have hardware support for basically everything.

Ça fait partie de mes projets à terme

Je vaes pouvoir retirer AndroidTV de mon projecteur u.u

Cool

Ooh, je découvre un nouveau truc qui me plaît beaucoup !

getting TV remotes to work over HDMI CEC is still untested

Ah, bummer, but I'm glad a project like this exists and is getting some new life breathed into it. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the toolbar at the top but I'm sure ricing will be fun on a platform like this.