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UI initiates Bluetooth scan for HID profile to connect and pair with at this point with a configured time-out. How to put the RCU in Bluetooth pairing mode is dependent on the RCU design which is not within UI scope.

UIv3.9 onwards Navigator UI will prefer to use Remote Control plugin on supported platforms to pair with RCU instead of classic Bluetooth plugin. Only one plugin shall be used to onboard the RCU - if preferred Remote Control plugin is available it will not fall back to use Bluetooth plugin to scan and pair with RCU.

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Alexa support

Preview Mode: Navigator UIv3 UI supports basic Alexa skills on aligning to Alexa Voice Integration Manual on a supported platform using Voice Control plugin.

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•  Note: "App Catalog & Manage Apps" are supporting only the minimal basic LISA API features. In future it will have the extended features of details of apps, view memory usage etc.

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Known supported RDKV machine configurations:

Navigator UI supports ASMS Cloud based app store out of the box without any manual configuration if proper configuration is embedded within the device firmware at build time. LISA metadata API shall confirm if the platform supports ASMS App Store if it has auxMetadatahas proper auxMetadata information matching following template.

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:9998/jsonrpc -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "LISA.1.getMetadata", "params": {"id": "lisa.dac.config", "type": "application/LISA", "version": "0"}}'

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"appName":"","category":"","url":"","auxMetadata":[{"key":"dacBundlePlatformNameOverride","value":"<UnequeASMSRegisteredPlatformName>"},{"key":"dacBundleFirmwareCompatibilityKey","value":"<UniqueUnequeASMSRegisteredPlatformFirmwareKey>"},{"key":"asmsUrl","value":"<ASMSAppStoreConfigurationUri>"}]}}

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• Network Interface - This page allows the user to change current network configuration - option to choose between Wi-Fi and Ethernet. If Wi-Fi is selected, next page will allow user to join with a wireless network. Join Another Option from Wi-Fi page gives user an option to connect to hidden networks around them - User has to provide Network name, select the proper security and password.
• Note: Previously connected SSID will not ask for password again and it will get connected if we click on previous connected SSID, and only connect with SSID that is saved [3.8 NEW FEATURE]. Only last saved one SSID is remembered.

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1. Local Device Discovery - This feature allows user to control (enables/disable) the DIAL casting support of the device - YouTube app. If enabled; user shall be able to see the device in his mobile App(under casting option in YouTube mobile app) which is in the same local network. Upon selecting it will directly link your mobile to device and open the YouTube app in the UI.
2. USB Media Device - User shall be able to enable or disable USB external media support. If enabled and media device is connected with the device then the USB icon will appear in Featured Content section as detailed in "USB Feature" section.
3. Audio Input/Clear Cookies and App Data - [Updated in UIv3.9] User  User shall be able to clear the ResidentApp's cache and local storage without triggering a system reboot. This section allows user to reset the Alexa authentication details as well on a supported platform.
4. Privacy Policy and License - This provides a template for future integration. Gives Information about Privacy and License policy which user shall be abiding to.

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The Scan section exposes various DVB tuner sub-systems; DVB-S, DVB-T and DVB-C based on respective stack integration support.

•  New Feature: UIv3UIv4.X - DVB T/T2: Upcoming
•  New Feature: UIv3UIv4.X - DVB-C: Upcoming

DVB-S/S2

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$ DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " offline_apps build_rne "

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API Documentation

This section details the average loading time, CPU and memory utilization for this version of the UI alone. It has been measured by loading the offline version of the UI on a pre-activated webkitbrowser instance.

TBD

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Web Version

To experience UIv3.X on a firebolt compliant RDK stack, below url can be used. Moving forward it shall get deprecated.

Current Stable Version(3.12): https://apps.rdkcentral.com/rdk-apps/accelerator-home-ui/index.html#splash

Previous Stable Version(3.9): https://apps.rdkcentral.com/rdk-apps/device-ui/index.html#splash

API Documentation

This section details the necessary platform integration support required to ensure the smooth functionality of UI version 3. Below are the details of RDKServices provided methods and notifications used in each UI feature or page implementation which shall the necessary platform integration support required to ensure the smooth functionality of Navigator UI. Below are the details of RDKServices provided methods and notifications used in each UI feature or page implementation which shall aid debugging any functionality and integration or modification of the same. The Featured Video Player - UVE is used for Video-On-Demand sample streams.

• Home Screen

  App Lifecycle Management

• Network Configuration

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• Video

• Audio

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• App Catalog

• Live TV

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