KDE/plasma-bigscreen

Plasma shell for TVs

A big launcher giving you easy access to any installed apps and skills. Controllable via voice or TV remote.

This project is using various open-source components like Plasma Bigscreen, Mycroft AI and libcec.

Voice Control

Bigscreen supports Mycroft AI, a free and open-source voice assistant that can be run completely decentralized on your own server.

Remote control your TV via CEC

CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) is a standard to control devices over HDMI. Use your normal TV remote control, or a RC with built-in microphone for voice control and optional mouse simulation.

Voice apps

Download new apps (aka skills) for your Bigscreen or add your own ones for others to enjoy.

Test on a development machine

It is recommended to use kdesrc-build to build this from source. See this page in order to set it up. Note that kdesrc-build doesn't automatically build plasma-nano and plasma-settings, so make sure to also build that before you run the shell.

Click here to see dependencies

KDE Plasma Dependencies

• plasma-nano - https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nano
• plasma-settings - https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasma-settings

KDE KF5 dependencies

• Activities
• ActivitiesStats
• Plasma
• I18n
• Kirigami2
• KCMUtils
• Notifications
• PlasmaQuick
• KIO
• Wayland
• WindowSystem
• KDEConnect

Qt dependencies

• Quick
• Core
• Qml
• DBus
• Network

Optional dependencies

The following can be installed for extra functionality but are not required to build or run:

• Mycroft-Core (development branch) https://github.com/MycroftAI/Mycroft-Core
• Mycroft-GUI - https://github.com/MycroftAI/Mycroft-GUI
• MycroftSkillInstaller - https://github.com/AIIX/MycroftSkillInstaller

To start the Bigscreen homescreen in a window, run:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland dbus-run-session kwin_wayland "plasmashell -p org.kde.plasma.mycroft.bigscreen"