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Highlights

Alexa Smart Screen support added

• Smart screen build support is available with a DISTRO feature
• Voice chrome integration available
• Smart screen integrated as UI Overlay
• Control smart screen through skill mapper

AVS plugin integration with RDK services

• Skill maps updated to make use of RDK service plugins
• RDK Shell interfacing available for the JSON RPCs

Voice control support for new RDK UI

• Volume control functionalities routed through DisplaySettings plugin
• Key navigations using RDK Shell
• Supports new launch shortcuts for Bluetooth & Wi-FI Fi settings
• Application launch supported using Cobalt, ResidentApp and LightningApp plugins

Components updated:

• • meta-rdk-voice, alexa_skill_mapper, wpeframework, wpeframework-plugins, rdkservices

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Note: The repository are only available to RDK members for whom it is provisioned.

$ mkdir <workspace

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$ cd <workspace

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$ repo init -u <Manifest-Repository> -m Manifest.xml -b rdk-next

e.g. $ repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -m Manifest.xml -b rdk

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-next

- Add below entries in manifest to download Alexa voice dependencies.

$ git clone https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/components/generic/rdk-oe/meta-rdk-voice

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<project name="components/generic/avs/alexa_skill_mapper"

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 revision="rdk-next"/>

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$ repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle

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The -m Manifest.xml in the build sequence above is important. Using it one can download either generic RDK code or that of the RDK accelerator collaboration repositories.
If this is not specified, you will get an RDK-V tree by default.

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The -b rdk-next in the build sequence above specifies the branch to use.

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 To download one of the tagged releases, -b <tag-name> should be used.

Building for RaspberryPi Hybrid

$ mkdir <workspace dir>

$ dir>$ cd <workspace dir>

$ dir>$ repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -m rdkv.xml -b rdkv-20210210$ 20210210

$ repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle

$ bundle$ source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment

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