Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

dpmdpm 59 points 14 comments June 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)

krackers

>that is already used in our industry-changing Roku remote controls. Why does a remote control require a RTOS?

jgalt212

Please someone make a Roku remote with a physical keyboard.

c0balt

That looks neat, the code appears be mostly in C, seems reasonable documented and is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/rokudev/lt-sdk

LoganDark

I wish they would offer the instruction in text as well rather than only in videos. Videos become stale and can't easily be used as a reference.

phantomathkg

The good thing is, it is not written in Brightscript.

FloatArtifact

Open source all you want! It doesn't change the fact that they're spying the contents of your screen no matter what input is being used with Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology https://docs.roku.com/published/acrservicepolicy/en/CA

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