Samsung promises a home automation control in new sdk for Smart TV

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Samsung has released version 5.0 of its software development kit for Smart TV released. With the renewed ontwikkelkit should be possible to domoticatoepasingen, such as lights, air conditioners and thermostats, via the tv. Also, the speed of the platform would be improved.

According to Samsung, the Smart TV sdk 5.0 compatible with a wide number of devices in modern households on the distance can be controlled. The South Korean manufacturer calls it lighting, air conditioners, thermostats, and refrigerators as examples of compatible devices via the included api’s are accessed. We hope Samsung control domoticatoepassingen via hdtv’s to simplify.

With the new sdk is the multiscreenmodus now also available in the emulator. This is according to Samsung easier to develop apps that not only on tv’s spin but also on mobile devices. Furthermore, there is to write apps in C and C++ support for Google’s portable native client. This mechanism should code as much as possible native to run on the available hardware and so the performance benefit. This may be an interesting addition to the Smart TV, because this platform by many users as too slow experienced.

Apps with the Smart TV sdk 5.0 to be built and on tvs from the 2014 line of Samsung are twisting, can be tested in a VirtualBox running emulator. There is now also support for WebGL, while there is also easier to work with subtitle in video applications. The sdk can be in combination with the Eclipse development environment can be used, while debugging is possible with the developertools of the Chrome browser.