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OmarchyTV 2.14.0-beta — Cinemarchy, the Arcade, OmaFire on every TV
OmarchyTV 2.14.0-beta — Cinemarchy, the Arcade, OmaFire, on every TV
This is the big one for me: LG webOS and Samsung Tizen catch up with Android TV, and all three get the same new things. versionCode 26, webOS and Tizen 2.14.0. Unofficial, built on Omarchy.
What's new
- Cinemarchy on LG and Samsung: three panes in Omarchy style and your theme's colours, a built-in player that resumes where you stopped, your IPTV playlists with groups and favourites, an Up-next queue, @dhh37, the streaming apps, X, the TV inputs and four open movies. Fast with huge playlists, light on old TVs.
- OmarchyTV Arcade on every TV: V-HOLD, RICE WARS, FORK BOMB, TILT and HYPRMAZE, played with arrows, OK and Back only, in the theme's colours (and inside the CRT set when Retro CRT is on). A QR code at game over opens X with your score already written, in the TV's language.
- Campfire, a theme made for OmaFire: the night lake, moonlight and fire colours, with the campfire burning as its wallpaper. The same theme is on the PC (
omarchy-theme-install https://github.com/piermark/omarchy-campfire-theme), so TV and PC match. - OmaFire as a wallpaper, with sound: campfire or embers, and Wes Grimes' own sounds and mixing if you turn them on. It now shows up in the random wallpapers too.
- Live screensaver: a glowing block clock, an animated ASCII sky, the PC's notifications and X mentions, CPU/RAM bars, an ASCII radar, Omastorm as a small snapshot — on dark glass panels, drifting against burn-in.
- Retro CRT, now unmistakable: the CRT set body with a rim in the theme's accent, an OMARCHY TV badge and power LED, scanlines, phosphor mask, vignette, and "strong" adds bloom and colour fringing.
- Liftoff in the TV's language, and 23 languages across the launcher, the Arcade and Cinemarchy.
- Your Omarchy PC's folders on the TV: browse Videos, Music, Pictures and Downloads and play them with seeking and subtitles; read-only and shared only with your paired TV.
Fixes
- OmaFire's fire is visible on LG and Samsung again. On webOS and Tizen the app runs from
file://, so the campsite image loaded from disk tainted the canvas,getImageData()threw and the wallpaper stayed blank while the sound played. The art now travels as adata:URI, and where a TV still refuses to read the pixels the still campsite is painted instead of nothing. - The Live screensaver fits every TV. It sized its text, the banner and the sweep in
vw/vh, which measure the real window while the page is a fixed 1920×1080 stage scaled to the panel: on a 1080p TV it drew oversized, off its glass panels. Everything now comes from the host box and is recomputed when the box changes, so 1920×1080, 1366×768, 1280×720 and anything else look the same, and the PC widget follows the same rule. - A theme picked from the launcher page stays picked (#92); the screensaver Clock row does something (#83); OK is reachable from the D-pad in the prompt and city dialogs (#86); a logo picked on the TV wins over the PC's text (#84);
omarchy-linkruns as a systemd service (#79); the Waybar widget no longer runs over its neighbour (#81).
Downloads
| Platform | File |
|---|---|
| Android TV / Google TV / Fire OS | omarchytv-release-2.14.0-beta.apk |
| LG webOS | omarchytv-webos-2.14.0-testing.ipk |
| Samsung Tizen | OmarchyTV-tizen-2.14.0-unsigned.wgt (sign it with your own certificate, see tizen/INSTALL-TIZEN.md) |
| Omarchy PC / macOS | omarchy-tv-pc-plugin-2.14.0-beta.tar.gz (or omarchy-tv / omarchy-link alone) |
The APK is signed with the OmarchyTV release certificate (SHA-256: 90aa68d9f45e623eadfd349ab1eb66042356f95ff6347a4568c3f3a78f8ea33d), so adb install -r upgrades over 2.12.0-beta and keeps your settings. Every checksum is in SHA256SUMS and in the README.
Beta software, tested on a Sony BRAVIA, a Google TV Streamer, a Sharp AQUOS, a Noblex/Hisense, my LG and the Android TV emulator. If something breaks on your TV, open an issue with the model — that's how the last batch of fixes happened. All previous releases stay up.