hyperion-webos

hyperion.ng grabber for webOS.

This piece of software does high-framerate/low-latency capture of contents displayed directly on webOS TVs and transmits these frames to hyperion.ng over the network.

Requires root.

Based on reverse-engineered internal system APIs. Still highly experimental.

If you are looking for a user-friendly UI that ships this piece of software check PicCap. This application mainly is the underlaying service for this software.

Known issues

• Everything is based on highly platform-specific reverse-engineered internal system APIs. Standard no-warranty clauses apply.

Backends

This software uses multiple capture backends, that may work differently on some webOS versions/hardware platforms.

Now, with unicapture, video and ui backends are seperated and only blended together if desired.

This means, UI or video capture can be turned on/off individually.

Video capturing

Backend	Description	webOS
libdile_vt	Low-level library used internally by libvt	3.x+
libvtcapture	High-level video capture library	5.x+

UI capturing

Backend	Description	webOS
libgm	UI capture library for older TVs	3.x+
libhalgal	UI capture library for newer TVs	5.x+

Quirks

Some TV models generally are comptabile with a specific backend, but require a slightly different routine to work reliably.

In this case, to not need totally different binaries, we implemented quirks, which can be toggled on if needed.

Currently the following ones exist:

Backend	Quirk	Description	Flag
DILE_VT	QUIRK_DILE_VT_CREATE_EX	Use DILE_VT_CreateEx instead of DILE_VT_Create	0x1
DILE_VT	QUIRK_DILE_VT_NO_FREEZE_CAPTURE	Do not freeze frame before capturing (higher fps)	0x2
DILE_VT VTCAPTURE	QUIRK_ALTERNATIVE_DUMP_LOCATION	(webOS 3.4, VTCAPTURE) Use alternative dump location	0x4
VTCAPTURE	QUIRK_VTCAPTURE_FORCE_CAPTURE	Use of a custom kernel module for reenable capture in special situation	0x100

They can be provided in config.json via the {"quirks": 0} field or on commandline via --quirks.

Easiest way though -> Use PicCap GUI!

You can assemble the final quirks value by using a bitwise-OR, e.g. quirks_value = (quirk_val | quirk_val2 | quirk_val3). The calculator is your friend ;)

You can find them defined here: Source code file

Running

hyperion-webos together with *_backend.so libraries need to be copied onto the TV, eg. into /tmp directory.

cd /tmp
./hyperion-webos --help
./hyperion-webos -b libdile_vt -a 10.0.0.1

Issues reporting

When reporting issues please include result of the following command:

grep -h -E '"(hardware_id|core_os_release|product_id|webos_manufacturing_version|board_type)"' /var/run/nyx/*

This contains model/hardware/region/software version, without any uniquely identifiable information.

If a segfault/crash occurs, a crashlog file will be generated in /var/log/reports/librdx or /tmp/faultmanager/crash/. This contains process memory dump and backtrace, but should not contain any uniquely identifiable information. (though, this is not guaranteed)

Code style / linting

To ensure a common codestyle on contributions, please ensure your submission is linted. The linting script depends on python3 / clang-format to be installed.

Run the linting / formatter script like this:

python lint/run-clang-format.py --extensions "c,h,cpp" --color auto --recursive --inplace true ./src

To make a dry-run (and not auto-fix), omit the --inplace true parameter.