Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart

Category: infrastructure

Tags: webos, home-automation, voice-assistant, chromium, webrtc, firmware-patching

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

R2D2 turns a rooted webOS TV into a thin display for a Linux compute host, which streams a sandboxed Chromium session and runs local speech recognition for a private voice assistant. The project combines firmware patching, WebRTC streaming, and on-device model inference in an ambitious but highly experimental and device-specific setup.

Target audience: hobbyist developers and tinkerers with rooted smart TVs and aarch64 Linux hosts

Repository: https://github.com/anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv · Python · MIT

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