smarttvjs is a cross platform framework to developer smart tv apps. It is based upon html5 and other js libraries including backbone/marionette.

Its command line interface is tested with Mac only, and some of them (when replying on external program) may not work with other OS.

Example app build with smarttvjs: https://github.com/smarttvjs/orangeeplayer

Install

install virtual pc 4.2 (lg does not support 4.3)

install samsung smart tv sdk

install lg smart tv sdk

For ios development, you need a mac computer with latest version of XCode.

For android devlopment, make sure you have the latest Android SDK installed, add "android" and "adb" command (inside the tools/ and platform-tools/ folder) to your PATH. Install Genymotion (a faster android emulator), and create a new device with it.

npm install -g smarttvjs
npm install -g cordova (if you want to use it for ios/android development)
brew install graphicsmagick
brew install ant (for android)

Create new project

mkdir projectname
cd projectname
smarttvjs init 
smarttvjs build samsung

Run in emulator

smarttvjs run samsung
smarttvjs run lg

Debug

smarttvjs console

Optional:

in samsung sdk, import project from build/samsung

in lg sdk, import project from buidl/lg

Install on samsung as developer

sudo smarttvjs server 80 build/

Known issues (TODO move this section to wiki)

When developing apps using smarttvjs on smart tv, we found the following issues:

Samsung:

• element.classList does not support multiple parameters
• Function.prototype.bind() does not work

LG:

• window.scrollTo does not work