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Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

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Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

#21

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

   you can disable this feature by going to Settings > Privacy > Smart TV Experience.

Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

#22

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

you can disable this feature by going to Settings > Privacy > Smart TV Experience.

can you ? can you really ?

Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

#23
post #20

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

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Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

#25
I wonder what would make this better (for some use cases at least) than venerable FreeRTOS? Or Zephyr? Or any of the other many, many RTOSes? In particular, the ESP32 comes with top notch documentation and SDKs that will make beginners at least want to stay with Espressif's modified RTOS for a while.

Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

#26
post #2

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

You can do an IR remote without a RTOS, but as soon as you do BLE you realistically need a RTOS. You have timers for keep-alives, connection states, competing interrupts, CPU-"intensive" tasks that can be preempted (for crypto)

Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

#29
I don't know if I'm missing something but from what I can see...

They don't seem to have any written documentation online, not even a list of features. They seem to have some doxygen docs on the repo, but they're not built anywhere. The only information ready to check are YouTube videos. The developer forum link they have in the top right doesn't work (I think since January they killed their forums).

It's a chore just to know what does it do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

#30

Does this meaningfully allow a person to push a modified version to their own TV without using a screwdriver?

From the front page of the site at least, no. This isn't for the Roku device itself (which is almost certainly running some flavour of Linux), its for peripherals like the remote control which will have much less powerful processors.
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