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Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by dzhiurgis »

dylan604 wrote: post #27
qbasic_forever wrote: post #7

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You might be able to use your native remote if it's infrared and LIRC supports it, and you get a little USB IR receiver dongle: https://www.lirc.org/ Or what I like is to get a generic air mouse/keyboard remote that has programmable IR buttons for volume, input select, power on, etc. to control the TV's native settings. There are a ton of inexpensive options: https://www.amazon.com/air-mouse-remote-keyboard/s?k=air+m…

Is there a bit of commonality for remote button frequencies? I have 3 different remotes for TV equipment plus my AppleTV remote. The volume buttons from all 4 remotes work, and I've never attempted to program/train/learn them.

Samsung TV i’ve got for my parents recently can control apple tv and random eastern european iptv box. Really surprised by this.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by sangnoir »

comboy wrote: post #144
sangnoir wrote: post #127

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Plasma (display) TVs are mostly dead - or at least no longer mainstream. On topic: I'd love to have my TV run an open source OS that can run all the streaming apps to avoid OEMs snooping on what I'm watching

You have HDMI port, there are RPis and others, I don't think TVs are running image recognition on HDMI input (yet).

LG WebOS TVs are capable of image + sound fingerprinting at OS level! Not only can they identify what you're watching, it's accurate enough to tell which scene you on and provide "handy" information overlays.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by MBCook »

cestith wrote: post #244
MBCook wrote: post #78

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What could you actually run on something like that? None of “normal” apps would be there for the various streaming services. I guess it could be a plex front end but outside of that can it really do much people usually do with their TVs?

My TV is WebOS. One of my streaming boxes is Android. I stream to my phone from an Android phone sometimes. I have an old Mac Mini with Ubuntu hooked up to a TV. I have two different XBox systems hooked up to two different TVs. These devices all have applications to stream video from things that aren't Plex.

But those are all non-open source solutions that Netflix, Amazon, etc. are willing to make apps for.

I don’t see streaming services making apps for this district any time soon.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by pc2g4d »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #103

There is a missing HOWTO in my life - a FOSS based home guide. I would like to take advantage of linux on the home router, or this TV or better ways to cross manage messaging on different platforms. Basically years ago FOSS made things simpler because it gave you back control. Now maybe I am just out of the loop, but I am not feeling the control in the everyday.

That would be an awesome HOWTO

I've been using OpenWRT (previously DD-WRT) on my routers for years now. Mostly I just enjoy not having nonsense on my router!

I think how I got started with it was by finding my device in their devices table and reading the page specifically for it. https://openwrt.org/toh/start

The biggest caveats would be: I've never had any issues personally, but be aware of the risks; avoid bricking your router, and be prepared to recover it in case the worst happens (make sure you back up the firmware before flashing it.)

And once you're installed.... `opkg upgrade` is much riskier than `dnf upgrade`. There's usually no script doing necessary modifications for you. Use with care.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by miked85 »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #250
miked85 wrote: post #208

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I think you mean KDE-savy - I've been using Linux for over 20 years and had no idea what this heading meant.

"reference rootfs" makes it obvious what it is to Linux-savy people, so you don't need to know what Neon is to assume that it's some kind of a distro.

I would say that is very debatable, but it is possible that I am not Linux-savy enough.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by jcelerier »

mappu wrote: post #92
rascul wrote: post #63

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I would really like to know more about this, and I can't seem to find anything about it. Are these projects implementing their own drivers for all the various audio hardware they can use instead of using ALSA? That certainly wasn't the case some years back when I used OpenElec.

"ALSA" has two meanings - there is only one set of Linux kernel audio drivers, and they're all ALSA no matter what distro you use. I think you're talking about this meaning. The other meaning of "ALSA" is libasound / asound.conf / dmix, the old userspace audio stack, which is deprecated since Pulseaudio except for a few holdout distros. ALSA had difficulty mixing multiple playback streams, let alone bitstreaming DTS.…

AFAIK pulseaudio, PipeWire and Jack are all built on top of libasound's snd_ APIs, it's the only sane way to use ALSA - just like you aren't going to make manual syscalls for read or write but going to use a libc

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by Dylan16807 »

kuschku wrote: post #205
Dylan16807 wrote: post #89

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The headline is not true. > Without that revenue stream, Baxter said, consumers would be paying more up front. "We'd collect a little bit more margin at retail to offset it," he said. A little bit. The value of that tracking is worth a lot to a company making near-zero margins, but it's not a very big impact on the full price.

TCL said they're now making more money with tracking than with sold TVs. Just as comparison.

But still somewhere in the single digit percent, I think.

The march of technology is responsible for almost all of the cheapness of TVs, and niche commercial targeting is responsible for the non-cheapness of other TVs.

Hisense has a $430 TV comparable to that $2200 model but with better color. Tracking, I dunno, might be $50.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by Leo_Verto »

capableweb wrote: post #187
antongribok wrote: post #23

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The fact that it actually comes with a Raspberry Pi is incredibly cool to me. Oh, and of course there's a review of it from Jeff Geerling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epPf7D8oMk Actually, this thing has some pretty decent specs... my initial reaction was that it was overpriced, but now I'm thinking this is a decent deal for what you get.

Looking at the product page, quite prominently this is displayed: > WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Styrene and Formaldehyde (gas), which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, and Lead I'm not sure the risks are worth the price, I've never seen such warning on any product, but I don't live in the US. Is that a common warning to see? How likely is that to happen? Is it a thi…

California mandated these sort of warnings a while ago so manufacturers just started slapping them on all of their products, just in case. Great example of alarm fatigue [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by cestith »

MBCook wrote: post #253
cestith wrote: post #244

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My TV is WebOS. One of my streaming boxes is Android. I stream to my phone from an Android phone sometimes. I have an old Mac Mini with Ubuntu hooked up to a TV. I have two different XBox systems hooked up to two different TVs. These devices all have applications to stream video from things that aren't Plex.

But those are all non-open source solutions that Netflix, Amazon, etc. are willing to make apps for. I don’t see streaming services making apps for this district any time soon.

Ubuntu is primarily open source.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

pc2g4d wrote: post #254
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #103

There is a missing HOWTO in my life - a FOSS based home guide. I would like to take advantage of linux on the home router, or this TV or better ways to cross manage messaging on different platforms. Basically years ago FOSS made things simpler because it gave you back control. Now maybe I am just out of the loop, but I am not feeling the control in the everyday.

That would be an awesome HOWTO I've been using OpenWRT (previously DD-WRT) on my routers for years now. Mostly I just enjoy not having nonsense on my router! I think how I got started with it was by finding my device in their devices table and reading the page specifically for it. https://openwrt.org/toh/start The biggest caveats would be: I've never had any issues personally, but be aware of the risks; avoid brickin…

If you want to join forces writing that HOWTO please shout !

I dug out an old router in the garage and might play over the weekend

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