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Is this the same guy who programmed Windows Vista? Good god that OS was horrible and would crash if you even looked at it the wrong way
Is there a way to install a smart TV OS on e.g. a raspberry Pi, and have it to the tv all the time? Would there be any downsides?
I have used Kodi on a Raspberry Pi, via OSMC.
There are some hardware limits that make a Pi not perfect for the job, and while there are things I like about Kodi there are things I don't. For one thing, I had speakers attached to the Pi via it's audio jack, but it would keep defaulting to the television's audio over HDMI and I'd have to alter a config file to get the option to use the audio jack to even appear in the GUI's menu. Someone decided to make it do that.
Another commenter mentions HDMI-CEC, which allows the Pi to control the TV like a remote, it can turn the TV on and off, change volume, etc. What this does is make it so that you can't turn the TV off. You turn the TV off, the Pi turns it back on immediately. Again, someone decided to make it do that.
It's one of those open source "It technically works and has the UX of west nile virus, so it's exactly what we want and we will treat you with open hostility if you ask us why it sucks" things, like GIMP and FreeCAD.
That last paragraph hurts too much, some programmers live too much in a programmers bubble/underestimate UX design way too much
You can use something like Kodi TV on a raspberry pi. Most TVs allow you to automatically load into a device on HDMI.
You'll also want to use the HDMI-CEC connection on your TV to the RPI - this will allow you to use your TV remote with it as well.
The TV I have right now can have multiple apps open. But that's the problem. In order to actually close an app that you're not using anymore, you have to do a full factory reset. Otherwise, it just keeps them running in the background until it literally has no more resources for anything at all to run.
Also: the factory reset is done by just holding the power button on the remote while the TV is on until the TV turns off and turns back on again. So you can accidentally do it really fucking easily 😬
I literally don’t believe you. What’s the model?
God I was in the market for a TV this year and I would have even payed a little bit extra for literally none of this shit at all haha
Lol this is spot on
Using a 12 year old cell phone processor to run data harvesting. Any processing power left over for transcoding and display of video is a bonus.
Give us T9 on TV remotes.
This is a great idea. You're totally right. I'm a little jealous I didn't think of it before, ngl.
So many people got so good with T9! And then like a fart in the wind the skill was not usable anymore.
My smartwatch has a T9 keyboard option. It's the best method for typing on small devices IMO.
Nah, at that size no keyboard works. The dictation on my apple watch works great though, and doesn’t even require internet these days.
Yeah it does! I tried it on an Oppo Watch from like 5 years ago (the square ones) and it was golden.
You don't even have to be good. Moving that cursor around the alphabet is slow and annoying as fuck.
Especially when keys randomly get stuck as pressed for seconds at a time
And when FUCKING GOOGLE DECIDED THAT PRESSING "UP" WHILE IN THE FIRST ROW SHOULD CLOSE THE KEYBOARD WITHOUT SAVING YOUR INPUT
The fact that there's no way to force close an app is my real frustration.
I can't even reboot my tv. I have to agree/disagree to the ToS to get it to actually restart.
Just pull the plug at that point.
I have a piece of shit Samsung TV that needs replacing. When an app crashes I found holding down the standby button for like 20 seconds and then turn it back on seems to kill the apps on the TV so I can reload them.
No idea if it's a legit fix; but if not the placebo effect makes me feel better. Maybe other TVs could work the same way?
I have 2 LGs, there is no way anyone has found out how other than my method. There aren't even physical power or menu buttons.
I actually built the OS for a certain line of smart TVs
It worked well on the first- and second-gen products, but hardware and software were all moved to China years ago and it's gone to shit since then.
Wow, I guess when Bobby Wagner finally retires he's all set on his second career
Yeah quite confusing as a Seahawks fan.
Turns out our Bobby is @Bwagz and not @Bwags
To be "fair"(?) it's really more about the awful hardware they shove in even $1000 TVs than the software quality.
I will say it's both.
But hey, you have to give it to them, at least when it doesn't crash they do run pretty beefy 4K HDR video decoding on a ten year old dual core SBC. I'm surprised the whole thing doesn't spontaneously combust at random intervals.
I'm pretty sure they usually shell out the 2¢ needed for dedicated decoding chips.