Add Emby app to KDE linux Raspberry pi build "plasma bigscreen"

[hrehuhasdf 4]

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

 

Smart TVs are becoming more and more complete computers, but unfortunately there the experience tends to be a tight walled garden between proprietary platform, services and privacy-infringing features. Features which are very cool, like voice control, but in order to not pose a threat to the user privacy should be on a free software stack and depending less on proprietary cloud platforms where possible.

Plasma BigScreen is a platform intended to use on smart TVs (trough a powerful enough small computing platform, such as the Raspberry Pi4, or any tiny computer if you need more power) with big remote-friendly UI controls, and Voice activation. What technology did we use for it? Plasma (of course!) and Mycroft.

 

Please include Emby within the base build of Plasma BigScreen

 

At a minimum this would be a short cut to a web browser with the emby icon.

Preferably, a native linux app would be built.

[Luke 37064]

Hi, what do you mean by including Emby within the base build? Wouldn't that require partnership with them?

[hrehuhasdf 4]

It's open source software so I don't think it would require a partnership. Probably just a pull request to their repo.

Repo: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-bigscreen

 

 

In one of their demos they use the mycroft emby skill. So they definitely are fans of emby.

 

Not sure if an emby client works with their kde build, so that would have to be tested.

 

This post has been created in their forum.

https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/add-emby-to-base-image/18827

 

They also have a telegram group: https://t.me/plasma_bigscreen

Edited May 31, 2020 by hrehuhasdf