v2 Public Beta 10-17-2024

[zshall]

Television Simulator '99 Public Beta

2017-2024 Zach Hall

Always up to date list of 3rd party credits / contributors:

https://www.notion.so/greenhillplaza/Television-Simulator-99-c28584f069b94f58a71b5c9fe2484dcb?pvs=4#8c122c36557a4710bdc938172aa883d7

Update Notes - 10-17-2024

• Added feed-reader engine. This component will load an RSS feed and display articles one at a time. Articles should have a title and content.
• Added color engine. You can display a plain background with either a solid color or a CSS gradient.
• Added a new mix layout. You can use it to superimpose one component on top of another full-screen using any CSS mix mode and also vary transparency of either component (from 0.0 to 1.0)

Here's a simple example of the feed reader:

- number: 33
  name: Local News
  abbr: NEWS
  feed-reader: /placeholders/news.rss

A full example is in the config.tvs.yml demo file. There are a few new examples in there, including layouts and colors.

To make the RSS feed load properly make sure the server is sending it with CORS headers. If it isn't, you may need a locally hosted proxy such as cors-everywhere.

Read this first!

Get started quickly:

• Put the files in the root directory of a web server. For now we require serving out of the root directory.
• Visit index.html and it should load the example configuration.

Basic keyboard controls:

• M toggles mute
• Up / Down control channels
• Left / Right control volume

In the browser you need to un-mute when the page loads because of autoplay restrictions.

Edit the example configuration file (config.tvs.yml) and make it your own.

Read the documentation: https://greenhillplaza.notion.site/Television-Simulator-99-c28584f069b94f58a71b5c9fe2484dcb

Join our community on Slack to ask for help or report issues: https://join.slack.com/t/greenhillplaza/shared_invite/zt-2dq8mx6sm-3YnobHETTmxUNE02TOSPRg

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