Plasma Bigscreen is a software project from
KDE which contains an interface optimized for
Smart TVs
A smart TV, also known as a connected TV (CTV), is a traditional television set with integrated Internet and interactive Web 2.0 features, which allows users to stream music and videos, browse the internet, and view photos. Smart TVs are a techno ...
and other computers such as the
Raspberry Pi which can be connected to large displays.
Software
The desktop environment is based on
KDE Plasma 5
KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth and current generation of the graphical workspaces environment created by KDE primarily for Linux systems. KDE Plasma 5 is the successor of KDE Plasma 4 and was first released on 15 July 2014.
It includes a new default ...
. Voice control is provided through integration with
Mycroft AI. Plasma Bigscreen supports
HDMI-CEC
Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) is a feature of HDMI designed to control HDMI connected devices by using only one remote controller; so, individual CEC enabled devices can command and control each other without user intervention, for up to 15 d ...
.
Availability
Plasma Bigscreen is currently available as a
KDE Neon
KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 5 desktop environment/framework, Qt 5 toolki ...
-based image, or installable on
postmarketOS
postmarketOS (abbreviated as pmOS) is an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution.
postmarketOS was launched on 26 May 2017 with the source code available on GitHub before migrating to GitLab in 2018. I ...
.
See also
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Plasma Mobile
Plasma Mobile is a Plasma variant for smartphones. It is currently available for the Pinephone, and supported devices for postmarketOS such as the OnePlus 6.
It is shipped by several Linux distributions, such as postmarketOS and Manjaro.
Hi ...
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Mycroft (software)
References
External links
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Free and open-source software
KDE Plasma
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