Roku LT Operating System open source distribution • Hacker News Board

topspin wrote: post #7

krackers wrote: post #2

>that is already used in our industry-changing Roku remote controls. Why does a remote control require a RTOS?

Roku remotes are sophisticated devices. There are many models, so features vary, but among the possible features are 3.5mm audio output, Bluetooth audio, voice command input, Wi-Fi, infrared, battery charger and other things. Clearly a substantial MCU is present and thus, an RTOS.

Pretty sure they don't have gyroscopes and accelerometers anymore, but they did early on. It was basically a Wii Mote and I played a ton of Angry Birds on my TV.

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Post by zzrrt » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 5:04 AM UTC

jgalt212 wrote: post #3

Please someone make a Roku remote with a physical keyboard.

You can probably do it with a keyboard paired to a server/RPi that emits the keystrokes to the Roku ECP API, if having that second device is acceptable.

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Post by FloatArtifact » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 5:19 AM UTC

Open source all you want! It doesn't change the fact that they're spying the contents of your screen no matter what input is being used with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology

https://docs.roku.com/published/acrservicepolicy/en/CA

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Post by phantomathkg » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC

aturek wrote: post #11

phantomathkg wrote: post #9

The good thing is, it is not written in Brightscript.

Brightscript could have been worse! And much, much better, as well

How could it be better? Brightscript is a proprietary language that serves nothing but a low power STB.

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Post by LeFantome » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 6:07 AM UTC

LoganDark wrote: post #6

I wish they would offer the instruction in text as well rather than only in videos. Videos become stale and can't easily be used as a reference.

Get an AI to transcribe the videos for you and then ask it to create a manual from the transcription.

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Post by _ZeD_ » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC

krackers wrote: post #2

>that is already used in our industry-changing Roku remote controls. Why does a remote control require a RTOS?

to spy on you

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC

FloatArtifact wrote: post #15

Open source all you want! It doesn't change the fact that they're spying the contents of your screen no matter what input is being used with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology https://docs.roku.com/published/acrservicepolicy/en/CA

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Post by riedel » Wed, Jun 03, 2026, 6:11 AM UTC

FloatArtifact wrote: post #15

Open source all you want! It doesn't change the fact that they're spying the contents of your screen no matter what input is being used with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology https://docs.roku.com/published/acrservicepolicy/en/CA

The original idea of open source or rather free software is to bmactually "own" the code in a way that you can modify it to your needs. Guess this is not the case here, then. But I guess also most of android falls in that category that by now. I guess we should be using better,more attributes when describing open source