Re: Yet unannounced Plasma TV UI project

On 18/03/20 3:40 pm, Paul Brown wrote:
> On miércoles, 18 de marzo de 2020 10:17:53 (CET) Marco Martin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> we are nearing the release of the first beta, ideally next week-ish.
>> things are looking much better.
>> we'll have a screencast, but we are going to need a good dot article as
>> well.
> Apart from running it and see what it does, what other information can you
> provide us with?
I have written up a introduction and am attaching it here, the write up 
is pretty rough but should give an idea.
>> by the way how many of you here could give it a try?
>> (images are still at https://files.xenon.pangea.pub/.mycroft/ every
>> day new and updated ones appear)
> This runs on a Raspberry Pi 4, yes? What about the TV? Does is need to be
> anything special, or does a regular monitor work?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
Upcoming beta release will be for the Raspberry Pi 4, its targeted at 
running on a TV screen, but will also work fine on a regular monitor.

The user interface is largely designed to be easy to use with a Remote 
control, there is experimental support for HDMI-CEC in the beta image, 
so anyone with a TV that supports HDMI-CEC can choose to use their TV 
remotes, As one of the key features of Plasma Bigscreen is mycroft voice 
controlled applications/skills its recommended to use a USB/Bluetooth 
remote which support a inbuilt microphone, some of those recommended 
generic usb remotes are the "WeChip G20 / W2 Remote Controls".

It can also be used with a keyboard / mouse and any attachable 
microphone, its largely left to the users choice.

Regards,

Aditya

>> --
>> Marco Martin
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:06 PM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On viernes, 7 de febrero de 2020 15:03:25 (CET) Aditya Mehra wrote:
>>>> Interface in the voice control section of the video is controlled with a
>>>> USB remote which has an inbuilt mic, the audio for mycroft was stripped
>>>> out of this video as it wasn't sounding very clear with the background
>>>> audio, the next version of the video should have this fixed where ill
>>>> create an audio clip separately and sync it which should sound more
>>>> clear and add it to the video.
>>> Perfect. But we can always dub the sound over it, if you want. Maybe get a
>>> female voice...
>>>
>>>> The background audio was just picked up randomly over the internet so
>>>> the
>>>> quality might not be great, would be nice if there is any generic
>>>> background audio that can be shared used in KDE demo videos to replace
>>>> this.
>>> Sure. Again, we can dub it.
>>>
>>> By the way... What software did you use to make the video?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Aditya Mehra
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: Paul Brown <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:54 PM
>>>> To: KDE Promo <[email protected]>
>>>> Cc: Aditya Mehra <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: Yet unannounced Plasma TV UI project
>>>>
>>>> On jueves, 6 de febrero de 2020 10:25:45 (CET) Aditya Mehra wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> please find the demo for the plasma bigscreen project for your preview
>>>>> in
>>>>> the link below, the demo is currently only a draft version for sharing
>>>>> to
>>>>> this list, will prepare a more polished version of a demo for public
>>>>> at
>>>>> the
>>>>> time of announcement.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBEwGhfJR0k&feature=youtu.be
>>>>> [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FBEwGhfJR0k/hqdefault.jpg]<https://www.youtube
>>>>> .com
>>>>> /w atch?v=FBEwGhfJR0k&feature=youtu.be> Plasma Bigscreen
>>>>> Demo<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBEwGhfJR0k&feature=youtu.be>
>>>>> Plasma
>>>>> Bigscreen Demo
>>>>> www.youtube.com<http://www.youtube.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Aditya Mehra
>>>> Very cool Aditya. And very nice video! I am looking forward to promoting
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> One question... When it says you can control the interface via Mycroft,
>>>> you
>>>> actually speak to Mycroft out loud, right? If so, and to make this
>>>> clear,
>>>> maybe we should dub what you said to Mycroft over the music.
>>>>
>>>> The music should be a little bit louder too. Not too much, just a little
>>>> bit.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Paul
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Plasma Bigscreen - The Plasma Experience For Big TV Screens.

Plasma Bigscreen is the free open-source user interface experience for those big TV Screens, It's the embedded version of Plasma called Plasma Nano powering the UI on a Single Board Computer with Mycroft AI voice assistance providing a Smart TV platform delivering not only media-rich applications but also your traditional desktop applications redesigned to fit the Bigscreen experience all developed under an open process.

Some of the ideas behind this project:

Freedom: One of the most important goals of this project is powering the community to build on freedom in the true sense without the limits of the traditional desktop. Plasma Bigscreen is completely Free and Open Source, It gives anyone the freedom to use, acquire, change and redistribute the software to how they see the best fit for it, It also gives people the freedom to create, innovate and improve on top of the existing platform and share their work with the world.

Innovation: It's the "Big Idea" the idea of transforming the traditional plasma workspace experience into something that could be controlled simply by remote control. Plasma Bigscreen is built on top of Plasma Nano an embed shell package built for embedded devices.

Privacy & Voice Control: The experience when sitting 10 feet away from your TV just isn't complete without having the ease of access to control it and that's exactly the space in which Mycroft AI the open-source voice assistant experience fits right in while respecting your privacy. Mycroft AI's Graphical Framework for skills is built on top of Qt and Kirigami allowing anyone with little Python and QML experience to develop enriching GUI powered voice skills for the platform.