R2D2 brings a local home screen and voice assistant to webOS TVs
What happened
On October 23, Hacker News featured R2D2 for webOS, a project giving webOS TVs a local home screen, a private remote browser and a push-to-talk voice assistant. An aarch64 Linux host runs Chromium and the voice models, while the TV only displays, runs apps and acts as the remote. Setup requires root on the TV and changes to the vendor's system services. The home screen, browser and remote voice control work end to end, but the project is verified only on one firmware version; other TV and firmware combinations are untested.
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- Hacker News front pageShow HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart
开发者发布 R2D2 for webOS 项目，为 webOS 电视提供本地主页、私有远程浏览器和按键说话语音助手，由一台 aarch64 Linux 主机运行 Chromium 与语音模型，电视仅作显示、应用和遥控端。该项目需电视 root 权限并修改厂商系统服务，仅针对特定固件版本验证，Home、浏览器和遥控语音已端到端跑通，其他电视与固件组合尚未验证。
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