Amazon Sidewalk

Re:Amazon Sidewalk by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:51AM (#27119624)

I don't think it'd be that hard. There are these cheap Android chips from China all over the place from companies like Allwinner which can be bought in almost any quantity (even extremely small quantities from an industrial perspective).

You take one of those (which currently have reverse-engineering efforts for drivers ongoing with Sunxi project) and simply run a stock Android AOSP without any code signing. The end user would need to install the Play Store and video wouldn't play above HD for the lack of Hardware-supported DRM, but then you would just model your remote control to work like a Game Controller (which Android supports decently).

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Re:Amazon Sidewalk by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:56AM (#27119676)

Also, further thoughts on this, an example would be the Pine64 series of Boards. They're open source, they've got reverse-engineered drivers coming slowly, they've got Android support already. Basically just take their board, wire the HDMI connector and instead wire that into the TV controller, and you've already got stock Android as long as you can get CEC over HDMI working (for the remote).

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Re:Amazon Sidewalk by cptskippy on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:02PM (#27119779)

> The end user would need to install the Play Store

At that point you're back to square one though right?

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