Features

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Interface

• Tiles in the style of Windows 8, sorted into groups – add your own tiles
• Control it with a gamepad, remote, mouse or keyboard; Xbox and PlayStation controllers (DualSense, DualShock) also via Bluetooth
• On-screen keyboard for every input field – in Firefox and on YouTube too
• Themes: Dark, Light, High contrast and Nord; your own themes as a single CSS file
• Adjustable scaling and resolution, 60 Hz preferred
• German or English, including the programs it launches
• Several programs at once – Guide or Win takes you back to the start screen from anywhere

TV

• Free-to-air channels from all over the world (channel list by iptv-org), with search and favorites
• Program guide with the current and next show, once an XMLTV source is configured
• Pluto TV and the German public broadcasters' media libraries (ARD, ZDF, ARTE) in the AppCenter

Radio

• Tens of thousands of stations via radio-browser.info, with search and favorites
• The radio tile shows the station and current track – the radio keeps playing while you use other tiles

YouTube and streaming

• Full-screen YouTube (Firefox in kiosk mode), optionally with the TV interface
• Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Joyn, RTL+ and Twitch from the AppCenter – copy protection (Widevine) is enabled for them
• Kodi, Jellyfin, Plex HTPC, Spotify, FreeTube and VLC for your own collection

AppCenter

60 hand-picked apps in seven categories – install and remove with one click:

• Gaming: Steam with Proton-GE, Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, itch, Prism Launcher (Minecraft), Moonlight, Steam Link, Discord
• Emulators: DuckStation, PCSX2, PPSSPP, Dolphin, Cemu, Flycast, mGBA, melonDS, Azahar, Snes9x, Nestopia, Rosalie's Mupen GUI, MAME, DOSBox Staging, ScummVM, VICE, Stella, RetroArch
• Games: SuperTuxKart, SuperTux, Neverball, Luanti, Xonotic, Hedgewars, Battle for Wesnoth, OpenTTD
• Media, streaming, browsers and tools: from Kodi to LocalSend (send files from your phone)

Native Void packages come first; Flatpak or AppImage only where no Void package exists. “Installed” shows everything on the device – including programs installed from the terminal.

Games

• Native Steam from the Void repositories, Proton-GE is kept up to date automatically
• Emulator tiles list the games from the shared folder (share/ROMs/<system>) and launch them directly
• Stream games from your gaming PC with Moonlight or Steam Link

Updates

• One button for everything: Void packages including the kernel, Flatpaks, AppImages, Proton-GE and VoidStation itself
• VoidStation updates are signed – devices only install what the publisher has signed
• Channels Stable (for everyone) and Testing (new versions first)
• No daily nagging: plain system updates are only flagged after 30, 60 or 90 days; a restart is only requested when it is needed

Under the hood

• Void Linux (glibc, rolling release) with runit, Openbox and PipeWire
• XLibre display server; if the interface fails to start twice, VoidStation repairs itself, then offers a rescue console
• The start screen is a lean WebKitGTK app – around 250 MB of RAM
• Windows share \\<hostname>\share for movies, music and ROMs; remote access via SSH if you want it
• Live ISO with an installer in the same tile design: whole SSD, next to Windows or Linux, into free space or manual partitioning