<story><title>Plasma Bigscreen</title><url>https://plasma-bigscreen.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deusum</author><text>If I understand correctly it uses a RPi or other ARM device attached to the TV.&lt;p&gt;Is there anything out there tbat overwrite the TV&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; firmware? Something analogous to OpenWRT and its router support?&lt;p&gt;It would be bet cool if you could use the controller and buttons &amp;quot;natively&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pabs3</author><text>If Software Freedom Conservancy win their lawsuit against Vizio for GPL violations in their TVs, you will probably be able to install open source Linux distros with KDE Plasma Bigscreen or Kodi on any Vizio TV and soon afterwards lots of other smart TV vendors will be similar. Allowing the vendor operating system to remain on the device after you purchase it basically means spyware these days.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sfconservancy.org&amp;#x2F;copyleft-compliance&amp;#x2F;vizio.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sfconservancy.org&amp;#x2F;copyleft-compliance&amp;#x2F;vizio.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Plasma Bigscreen</title><url>https://plasma-bigscreen.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deusum</author><text>If I understand correctly it uses a RPi or other ARM device attached to the TV.&lt;p&gt;Is there anything out there tbat overwrite the TV&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; firmware? Something analogous to OpenWRT and its router support?&lt;p&gt;It would be bet cool if you could use the controller and buttons &amp;quot;natively&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>denkmoon</author><text>&amp;gt;It would be bet cool if you could use the controller and buttons &amp;quot;natively&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This is what LibCEC is for.</text></comment>