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
- Declarative
- 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"