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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: Yet unannounced Plasma TV UI project
From:       Aditya Mehra <aix.m () outlook ! com>
Date:       2020-03-18 11:23:51
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On 18/03/20 3:40 pm, Paul Brown wrote:
> On miércoles, 18 de marzo de 2020 10:17:53 (CET) Marco Martin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> we are nearing the release of the first beta, ideally next week-ish.
>> things are looking much better.
>> we'll have a screencast, but we are going to need a good dot article as
>> well.
> Apart from running it and see what it does, what other information can you
> provide us with?
I have written up a introduction and am attaching it here, the write up 
is pretty rough but should give an idea.
>> by the way how many of you here could give it a try?
>> (images are still at https://files.xenon.pangea.pub/.mycroft/ every
>> day new and updated ones appear)
> This runs on a Raspberry Pi 4, yes? What about the TV? Does is need to be
> anything special, or does a regular monitor work?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
Upcoming beta release will be for the Raspberry Pi 4, its targeted at 
running on a TV screen, but will also work fine on a regular monitor.

The user interface is largely designed to be easy to use with a Remote 
control, there is experimental support for HDMI-CEC in the beta image, 
so anyone with a TV that supports HDMI-CEC can choose to use their TV 
remotes, As one of the key features of Plasma Bigscreen is mycroft voice 
controlled applications/skills its recommended to use a USB/Bluetooth 
remote which support a inbuilt microphone, some of those recommended 
generic usb remotes are the "WeChip G20 / W2 Remote Controls".

It can also be used with a keyboard / mouse and any attachable 
microphone, its largely left to the users choice.

Regards,

Aditya

>> --
>> Marco Martin
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:06 PM Paul Brown <paul.brown@kde.org> wrote:
>>> On viernes, 7 de febrero de 2020 15:03:25 (CET) Aditya Mehra wrote:
>>>> Interface in the voice control section of the video is controlled with a
>>>> USB remote which has an inbuilt mic, the audio for mycroft was stripped
>>>> out of this video as it wasn't sounding very clear with the background
>>>> audio, the next version of the video should have this fixed where ill
>>>> create an audio clip separately and sync it which should sound more
>>>> clear and add it to the video.
>>> Perfect. But we can always dub the sound over it, if you want. Maybe get a
>>> female voice...
>>>
>>>> The background audio was just picked up randomly over the internet so
>>>> the
>>>> quality might not be great, would be nice if there is any generic
>>>> background audio that can be shared used in KDE demo videos to replace
>>>> this.
>>> Sure. Again, we can dub it.
>>>
>>> By the way... What software did you use to make the video?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Aditya Mehra
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: Paul Brown <paul.brown@kde.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:54 PM
>>>> To: KDE Promo <kde-promo@kde.org>
>>>> Cc: Aditya Mehra <aix.m@outlook.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: Yet unannounced Plasma TV UI project
>>>>
>>>> On jueves, 6 de febrero de 2020 10:25:45 (CET) Aditya Mehra wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> please find the demo for the plasma bigscreen project for your preview
>>>>> in
>>>>> the link below, the demo is currently only a draft version for sharing
>>>>> to
>>>>> this list, will prepare a more polished version of a demo for public
>>>>> at
>>>>> the
>>>>> time of announcement.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBEwGhfJR0k&feature=youtu.be
>>>>> [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FBEwGhfJR0k/hqdefault.jpg]<https://www.youtube
>>>>> .com
>>>>> /w atch?v=FBEwGhfJR0k&feature=youtu.be> Plasma Bigscreen
>>>>> Demo<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBEwGhfJR0k&feature=youtu.be>
>>>>> Plasma
>>>>> Bigscreen Demo
>>>>> www.youtube.com<http://www.youtube.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Aditya Mehra
>>>> Very cool Aditya. And very nice video! I am looking forward to promoting
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> One question... When it says you can control the interface via Mycroft,
>>>> you
>>>> actually speak to Mycroft out loud, right? If so, and to make this
>>>> clear,
>>>> maybe we should dub what you said to Mycroft over the music.
>>>>
>>>> The music should be a little bit louder too. Not too much, just a little
>>>> bit.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Paul
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>

["Plasma-Bigscreen-Writeup" (text/plain)]

Plasma Bigscreen - The Plasma Experience For Big TV Screens.

Plasma Bigscreen is the free open-source user interface experience for those big TV \
Screens, It's the embedded version of Plasma called Plasma Nano powering the UI on a \
Single Board Computer with Mycroft AI voice assistance providing a Smart TV platform \
delivering not only media-rich applications but also your traditional desktop \
applications redesigned to fit the Bigscreen experience all developed under an open \
process.

Some of the ideas behind this project:

Freedom: One of the most important goals of this project is powering the community to \
build on freedom in the true sense without the limits of the traditional desktop. \
Plasma Bigscreen is completely Free and Open Source, It gives anyone the freedom to \
use, acquire, change and redistribute the software to how they see the best fit for \
it, It also gives people the freedom to create, innovate and improve on top of the \
existing platform and share their work with the world.

Innovation: It's the "Big Idea" the idea of transforming the traditional plasma \
workspace experience into something that could be controlled simply by remote \
control. Plasma Bigscreen is built on top of Plasma Nano an embed shell package built \
for embedded devices.

Privacy & Voice Control: The experience when sitting 10 feet away from your TV just \
isn't complete without having the ease of access to control it and that's exactly the \
space in which Mycroft AI the open-source voice assistant experience fits right in \
while respecting your privacy. Mycroft AI's Graphical Framework for skills is built \
on top of Qt and Kirigami allowing anyone with little Python and QML experience to \
develop enriching GUI powered voice skills for the platform.



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