Beam
Remote buttons
Home opens Beam, and the remote buttons can be reassigned. A small service sees only which button was pressed.
In development
Beam
A home screen for projectors on Google TV
A clean home screen without ads or recommendations. The Home button opens Beam, the remote buttons can be reassigned, and focus, keystone and the sleep timer are one click away.
Projector
Everything the projector needs, in one row
Under your apps sits a row of quick actions — no digging through system menus.
- FocusSharpen the picture
- KeystoneSquare up a slanted picture
- Fit to screenAutomatically fit the picture to the screen
- PictureBrightness, contrast, sharpness and picture mode
- Test patternsGrids and test charts for focus, keystone and black level
- Sleep timerThe projector sleeps by itself after 15, 30, 60 or 90 minutes
- OptimizeCloses apps left in the background and frees memory
- HDMISwitch to the HDMI input
Focus, keystone, fit and picture open the projector’s own settings screens, so they appear on projectors Beam knows.
Light
Half the memory of the stock home screen
Beam is made for projectors and set-top boxes with 1–2 GB of memory: two small processes — the home screen and the remote-button service.
Beam48MB
Google TV home screen94MB
Memory in use, first version of Beam on a projector with 1.8 GB.
Features
What else Beam can do
App covers
Each app gets a photo in its mood, with its icon and name — or the app’s own banner, if you prefer. Hold OK on a tile to move or hide it.
+11°Calendar and weather
An animated sky for the current weather, an hourly forecast, seven days ahead and a month calendar. Weather comes from Open-Meteo.
Screensaver
Photos, weather or a large clock — thin, analog or flip — or a mix of them. Beam can also be the Google TV screensaver.
Test patterns
Grid and geometry, focus star, black level, gray steps and color bars — to set up the picture on the wall.
Sleep timer
The projector goes to sleep by itself. A minute before, Beam warns you, and any button cancels.
Privacy
Only your apps on the screen.
- No Ads
- No Recommendations
- No Analytics
- No Tracking
The remote-button service sees only which button was pressed and doesn’t read the screen. Beam sends nothing anywhere: its only request is for the weather, to Open-Meteo.