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An RDK-V Virtual Remote basically focuses on emulating the features of physical RDK remote control unit to provide support to application developers and testers to make there life easier with new RDK-V Virtual Remote. It comes in a form of installer package that can be installed on desktop pc and launched.
Emulator app manager and Virtual remote has been developed and tested on below environment
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Follow below steps to run application on host pc and create installer package
$ nvm use v14.18.1
$ npm install
$ npm run start
Follow below steps to create installer package for linux
$ sudo npm install -g electron-packager
$ sudo npm install -g electron-installer-debian
$ electron-packager . --platform linux --arch x64 --out dist --overwrite
$ electron-installer-debian --src dist/rdkv-virtual-remote-linux-x64/ --arch amd64 --config config.json
For the complete documentation on electronjs refer link: https://www.electronjs.org/.