- mastod0n@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I’ve been waiting for Plasma Bigscreen for quite a while for my and eventually my family’s living room entertainment system.
Add a DVB receiver and you can just a normal, dumb screen and never have to deal with shitty “smart” TVs again.
Right now? Only buying Android TV because it’s the only OS whixh I can manipulate (using ADB).
- cenariodantesco@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
i wonder if I’ll be possible to flash this on my nvidia shield when it’s out
8 hoursReintroduces, really. Iirc it was originally made for plasma 5 and and was broken by changes in Plasma 6. This is “we fixed the stuff we broke”.
Yup, it disappeared from Debian repositories in 13/Trixie.
- ShutUpWesley@piefed.zipEnglish11 hours
I’m super pumped to finally have something better than Nvidia Sheild or Kodi
- Bloefz@lemmy.worldEnglish27 minutes
Yeah this has been on the books for ages. It’s not being developed by KDE’s core team and it wasn’t making much progress for a while but I’m really happy yo see it come out.
Honestly, I want to like Kodi, but even this first screenshot looks much better than anything I’ve been able to muster together in Kodi.
- Bloefz@lemmy.worldEnglish26 minutes
Same here. Kodi’s UI was nice back in the days when it was XBMC. These days we have different ideas on usability.
- KryptonBlur@slrpnk.netEnglish3 hours
Yeah I feel the same way. I feel like Kodi, unfortunately, makes it harder to use my HTPC rather than easier
yeah i generally dont use kde, but ive been looking for something like this for a long time
- Bloefz@lemmy.worldEnglish25 minutes
Oh I use KDE every day. I love it.
But this would be a very different usecase I wouldn’t use on my main PC.
- PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
How useful is this in the grand scheme of things if the applications themselves don’t have a 10ft UI? I guess you’d need to limit yourself and find apps specifically made to be shown on a TV… within a repository that caters desktop apps. Blending TV’s and desktops is hard…
- dangrousperson@feddit.orgEnglish37 minutes
“Multiple Input Methods Navigate with your TV remote via CEC, a game controller, a keyboard and mouse, or even your phone via KDE Connect.”
Should just work out of the box, I think
- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish11 hours
How do streaming services like Disney, prime, Netflix, and hbo run on these? Is it possible?
I need something dead simple for my wife.
- qwestjest78@lemmy.caEnglish16 minutes
I set up Jellyfin and my wife and kids love it. We have no streaming services now.
- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 minutes
I should also add that I live in a third would country so all the streaming services are dirt cheap here.
I think YouTube premium is like $3 a month or something like that.
- gwheel@lemmy.zipEnglish10 hours
Probably the same as on a Linux desktop now, the browser sites work fine but you won’t get 4k or HDR.
- Xyphius@lemmy.caEnglish9 hours
Worth it in my books. Might be my eyes going bad, but I can’t notice much difference beyond 720p
With respect, if you cannot notice a difference between 720p and 4k on a 4k compatible screen, then you do indeed have something wrong with your eyes.
- Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
It’s not just resolution and colorspace. The providers also drop the
nitrate*bitrate significantly. Which, in my opinion, is way more noticeable and jarring.- invalensname@piefed.socialEnglish5 hours
I was really confused for a moment over why monitors would use nitrate and how it could affect the experience. Then I realized you meant bitrate lol
- Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
Man, I’ve really got to get better at proofing my comments before hitting submit, on mobile especially.
- 8 hours
How’s HDMI-CEC support in Linux? I remember that being a sticking point last time I considered building an HTPC
- Majestic@lemmy.mlEnglish48 minutes
Doesn’t work. Not a Linux issue. No graphics card or motherboard maker connects the hardware correctly to support CEC on PCs. It’s an industry-wide practice.
There is the pulse eight injector which together with software can inject CEC with a USB connection with the caveat it can’t turn your computer on and it’s a hacky and imperfect solution for tinkerers rather than production ready equipment. Also it’s only HDMI 2.0 not 2.1.
How’s HDMI-CEC support in Linux?
Pulled directly from KDE Plasma’s Bigscreen website.
Multiple Input Methods
Navigate with your TV remote via CEC, a game controller, a keyboard and mouse, or even your phone via KDE Connect.
- Hezaethos@piefed.zipEnglish4 hours
KDE Connect has literally only every once worked for me, via WiFi only.
I don’t understand why they haven’t officially added the Bluetooth support into it by now.
- wltr@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish5 hours
I searched for what HDMI-CEC but it’s not very clear to me. Does it mean that, say, if I have an HTPC, and if I run Kodi, I can control it with a regular TV remote? Should this thing be on a TV too? Would appreciate someone with the supported devices to comment how it works and how you use it.
- 4 hours
It means that multiple devices which are connected to the same TV can all control each other.
For example, say you have a streaming device (e.g. Amazon Fire Stick) and an audio receiver both hooked up to the same TV on different HDMI ports. With CEC, you could use the volume buttons on the streaming device’s remote to control the volume on the audio receiver. You could also use the power button on the TV remote to turn all three devices on/off at the same time.
- 8 hours
I use LibreElec which is a Linux distro of sorts. It has CEC that works for me
This plus a Flirc USB would be amazing. I’m going to give it a go.
- hydrashok@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 hours
Nice. Definitely something to check out when I build my next HTPC.
