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All Applications for the Roku PhotoBridge HD

This page lists all add-on applications that run on the Roku PhotoBridge HD. They are sorted into several categories, with those that can be configured and controlled using only the remote coming first.

Native Apps
Name (Home Page Link) Description Works With 1.5 Firmware Works With 2.0.7-2.0.15 Firmware Works With 2.0.16-2.0.21 Firmware Works With 2.0.34-2.0.36+ Firmware Developer(s) Active On Roku Forums Special Requirements
LiveSpy View Webcams from around the world Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes None
MPlay Play Recorded HDTV programs and DVDs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes None
CinemaSix Play Recorded HDTV programs, DVDs, and HTTP streams (from VLC, for example) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes None
WeatherSix See the weather forecast and radar images for multiple locations and easily switch between them. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes None
Flickr Show random images from your Flickr.com image list. No No No Yes Yes None
SongInfo A free screen saver that shows information on the currently-playing song. - Yes - Yes Yes None
HexRadio Plays and displays internet radio stations. - Yes - - Yes None
Sonica An alternative music player - - Yes Yes Yes None
SDesk A replacement main UI/media launcher - - Yes Yes Yes None
Viper Movie Browser and Player - - - Yes Yes None
Music Jukebox A music jukebox player that catalogues your music collection quickly and provides an easy-to-use interface, including a play queue Yes Yes - ? Yes None
SlimRoku A replacement music player using SlimServer as the backend - - - Yes Yes SlimServer running on a networked PC
MythRoku A frontend for MythTV, a flexible and feature-rich PVR server plus much more - - - Yes Yes MythTV running on a networked PC
MyView MyView offers a different view of Roku's main screen. It shows all applications at one time. - Yes - ? Yes None
RSS News Reader An on-screen RSS news reader. Yes - - - Yes None
TunesPlayer An iTunes front-end. - Yes - ? Yes An iTunes server
Growl An Growl message displayer. - - - Yes Yes A Growl message source on the network
ReplaySix ReplayTV front-end with video playback and on-screen program guide Yes ? ? ? Yes A ReplayTV unit
TheatreSix A video streaming solution that displays a list of available videos from which to choose. Yes Yes - ? Yes A windows server with VLC

Command-Line GUI Apps
Name (Home Page Link) Description Works With 1.5 Firmware Works With 2.0.7-2.0.15 Firmware Works With 2.0.16-2.0.21 Firmware Works With 2.0.34-2.0.36+ Firmware Developer(s) Active On Roku Forums Special Requirements
VncSix View a VNC Server (running a web browser, slide show, etc.) on the PhotoBridge Display - Yes Yes Yes Yes A VNC Server
VideoLAN Client VideoLAN Client for the HD1000. (mailing list posting) ? ? ? ? No None

Command-Line-Only Apps
RemoteSim A Remote Control Simulator. Navigate the Roku interface using your keyboard in a telnet session. - Yes Yes Yes Yes None
Zile A lightweight emacs clone - Yes - - Yes None
gdb/gdbserver gnu debugger and remote debug proxy - Yes - ? Yes None
NFS Support Ability to mount NFS shares ? ? ? ? No An NFS Server

Plug-In Codecs for 2.0.16+ [TBD]

Categories

  1. Native App: An application that can be configured and controlled using the remote control. Such apps must also be installed by extracting to a network share without further editing. An application can still be in this category and have optional command-line parameters and configuration tweaks available, provided those options are not needed by the majority of users.
  2. Command-Line GUI App: An application that requires either configuration, entry of command-line parameters, or interactive control via logging in to the PhotoBridge, but which uses the television display (or audio output) in some way,
  3. Command-Line-Only App: An application that is controlled entirely via the PhotoBridge telnet interface and that does not utilize the video or audio output.
Last modified on 5 Apr 2011 by AO

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